Has Amarok ever been played live?
Mike has said that Amarok is “a very weird and wonderful, complicated thing to perform live. There would be eight guitars playing incredibly fast, and to be honest I wouldn’t be able to find enough players who could play that quickly.” However, he has played the intro riff live on BBC Radio 5, and he played a section on TV-AM (this section is therefore given the name TV-AM. For other track titles, see 3.7) as part of Taurus 3. That TV-AM performance was when Mike was promoting The Wind Chimes video, on 31st May 1988 (about 18 months before he started putting Amarok together), after which presenter Ann Diamond referred to Mike as a “walking orchestra”. Also during that programme he tried to balance a twirling basketball on the end of his finger to emulate the other guest – Joyce Walker of the Globetrotters. He failed miserably. There was a time when Mike would regularly turn up on early morning TV. In the period 1986 -1989 he did at least 3 promotional visits to TV-AM and one visit to t
Mike has said that Amarok is “a very weird and wonderful, complicated thing to perform live. There would be eight guitars playing incredibly fast, and to be honest I wouldn’t be able to find enough players who could play that quickly.” However, he has played the intro riff live on BBC Radio 5, and he played a section on TV-AM (this section is therefore given the name TV-AM. See 3.7) as part of Taurus 3. That TV-AM performance was when Mike was promoting The Wind Chimes video, on 31st May 1988 (about 18 months before he started putting Amarok together), after which presenter Ann Diamond referred to Mike as a “walking orchestra”. Also during that programme he tried to balance a twirling basketball on the end of his finger to emulate the other guest – Joyce Walker of the Globetrotters. He failed miserably. There was a time when Mike would regularly turn up on early morning TV. In the period 1986 -1989 he did at least 3 promotional visits to TV-AM and one visit to the BBC to show off part
