I came across something I have not seen in a long time ... decades, actually. I think I saw this via the TV channel that ETV ran as a bit of an experiment (Channel 13, if memory serves) when cable was new.
This is a 1973 BBC recording of Mike Oldfield and Tubular Bells, except that it's live and Oldfield obviously is not multitracking himself as he did on the album of the same name.
There's a bit of a dream team playing the guitars. Seated next to Oldfield are (among others) Steve Hillage, Mick Taylor (still in the Rolling Stones at that point) and Fred Frith. This is Taylor and Frith, the latter nailing that avant garde look with a very Seventies sweater.
I love watching a very chill Oldfield, all of 20 at the time (it's unnerving, yes, to realize that the music, made famous in The Exorcist, was composed, played and recorded by a teenager), practically reclining in a chair, swapping a bass for an acoustic guitar and back again, smiling happily as the suite moves into its finale, he and Frith chugging out the rhythm for the bed. Viv Stanshall's voice is used from the tapes, but everything else seems to be live.
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