Delfín
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Posted: June 04 2010, 20:44 |
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Agree with you all 'Hergest Ridge' is exceptional and as a matter of fact it's one of my brother's Mike's favourite album. It's a pity as well it's not one of "dad's" favourites for playing live, as well as 'Incantations', in my opinion even more complex and even better.
I use to dream about a concert with excerpts similar to which you can find in the four sides of 'The Complete', for me by far the best compilation ever, not only by
Mike Oldfield, but just by any artist: the artwork, the general taste of it. i remember enjoying it at my age of 12 feeling it like a proper new album.
I think one day Mike will think about touring with the good old hidden material we all like, just like the first 4 studio albums, the eighties stuff and the rest of it (the whole of his discography, in other words  . I'm speaking about a disperse concert with lots of surprises and amazing arrangements of obscure, wonderful gems like, say, 'Incantations' or 'Taurus I,II,III...' .
I think by now we have to carry on dreaming, but I bet you if Mike reads this, he'll start to think about it... 
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I guess that now he's done another remix of it, which features more of the original mix, because, maybe, he has re-acquainted with it a bit more than he had in 1975. But I agree with you that there are very little chances of him doing anything from HR live, because it's very complex. Much more complex than TB or Ommadawn, IMHO.