"Tubular Bells" live in 1973

Don’t get your hopes up. I haven’t seen it since late-night cable TV in 1977, but none of them have time to move around or even look up, they’re too busy.

What really is worth seeing is the live show “Tubular Bells for Two”, I caught at the Edinburgh Festival in 2014. For two guys to pull of a note-perfect duplicate of the album (their goal) is frantically busy, at some points one has to leap across the stage to get to his next instrument. There’s a brief few seconds where only one musician is needed and the other has time to spare to get to his next keyboard. So he picks up a glass of wine from a speaker and sips it languidly, always getting a laugh because the other 51 minutes is like watching Charlie Chaplin try to keep up with the too-fast assembly line.

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