Far Cough 3:21 Sun Jun 14
Mike Olfield: Your favourite track and album?
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Portsmouth and Tubular Bells II
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zanteboy
5:35 Tue Jun 16
Re: Mike Olfield: Your favourite track and album?
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A bit MOR for me, I preferred ELP.
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Far Cough
2:37 Tue Jun 16
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Brilliant MCing by Vivian Stanshall on Oldfield's Sailors Hornpipe:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf00bg7Pajw
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stomper
3:37 Tue Jun 16
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In dolce Jubilo
And thats it!
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The Stoat
7:38 Mon Jun 15
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Summit Day was a class piece of music ....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STnHKe2a61Q
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Bungo
7:12 Mon Jun 15
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Far Cough 6:17 Mon Jun 15
It's his precise articulation I love. The vast majority of guitarists I listen to have broadly speaking come from the same place stylistically, which usually involves a bit of 'looseness'.
Oldfield always sounds to me as if he learned to play guitar without ever listening to anyone else, and therefore evolved his own unique, precise approach. Quite 'un-rock' but interesting because of that.
Great stuff!
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Far Cough
6:17 Mon Jun 15
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Bungo, the unmistakeable guitar sound of Oldfield, it's funny how some people have a signature sound that you know immediately who is playing. For example
Dave Gilmour
Eddie Van Halen
Brian May
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Bungo
3:24 Mon Jun 15
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First gig I ever went to was Mike Oldfield at Wembley Arena in the late '70s.
Played teh whole of Incantations in the first half with Tubular Bells 2nd half.
I always loved his work as a guitarist. Try this bit of Incantations from 17.10 to 18.12.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0qrRmiFRWI
NB Random factoid, Emma Freud was one of the young backing singers on that tour. Whatever happened to her?
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Far Cough
3:03 Mon Jun 15
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nerd, to be fair, TB made Virgin and Branson made Mike Oldfield
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Far Cough
3:02 Mon Jun 15
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Leonard, at 16.50
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IhNucymsq4
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nerd
2:39 Mon Jun 15
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Without tubular bells and not letting the musical halfwit Branson hear it or anywhere near it made virgin . The start of an empire .
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Grumpster
1:36 Mon Jun 15
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I really don't know if I;ve heard anything other than Tubular Bells and if I did, I wasn't aware it was his.
Boring as it is though, Tubular Bells is a fantastic piece of music and he will have done well to have bettered that.
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Leonard Hatred
1:22 Mon Jun 15
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No it was Viv Stanshall of the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah band.
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Far Cough
1:15 Mon Jun 15
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Them?
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Far Cough
1:14 Mon Jun 15
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Wasn't John Cleese MC on one of the
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Leonard Hatred
12:37 Mon Jun 15
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Ivor Cutler was supposed to be the MC on TB but he turned it down.
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Ron Greensward
10:31 Mon Jun 15
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Tubular Bells and Moonlight Shadow.
Millennium concert in Berlin is terrific if you can get it, also available on DVD.
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Ronald_antly
1:07 Mon Jun 15
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In Dulci Jubilo
Conjures up memories of a Friday night game at Upton Park (December 1979). The track was played during the halftime break, and some wag emerged from the West Side dancing to it, in the snow, naked from the waist down.
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Sydney_Iron
12:04 Mon Jun 15
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Family Man and 5 Miles Out
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Hammer and Pickle
11:48 Sun Jun 14
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Two slightly distorted guitars.
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nerd
11:45 Sun Jun 14
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He was 17 when he composed tubular bells, fucking genius .
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Far Cough
8:54 Sun Jun 14
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Behave, the bloke is prolific
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