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Points: 26136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 26 2012 at 14:53
Originally posted by TODDLER TODDLER wrote:

I remember watching a concert of Mike Oldfield where he performed the entire Tubular Bells II.  I believe it may have been the 4th of July and at the end of the performance fireworks are released from behind the stage and Mike Oldfield waves goodbye to audience.  The 1 and only time I ever had the chance to see him. I was amazed by his right hand finger picking technique. He produces this harmonic sound when playing single note phrases. I love his style of guitar playing. In the 80's he hired a lot of different vocalists ....there are some hokey tunes on those 80 's releases, but it's beautiful hokey. What can I say? I have loved the music of 10CC for years. Mike Oldfield's singer songwriter material was classy like 10CC and many others who are crafty writers with simplistic arrangements that draw me in.
I think my favourite Oldfield song is To France. I enjoy listening to the first disc of The Complete Mike Oldfield double CD where many of his best songs are grouped together. He even provided a hit for Hall and Oates ..but I'm prepared to forgive him thatWinkLOL
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Aside of all the music mentioned here (I'm with you, Amarok, Incantations, Ommadawn...),  I've always thought the first half of Tub Bells 2, right till the end of The Bell, that is, is nothing less of a masterpiece.


(I can't believe I hadn't found this forum before, being the prog junkie that I am. I'm finding out about plenty of awesome music thanks to you guys, cheers)


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Points: 397 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2012 at 14:33
Originally posted by Molitro Molitro wrote:

Aside of all the music mentioned here (I'm with you, Amarok, Incantations, Ommadawn...),  I've always thought the first half of Tub Bells 2, right till the end of The Bell, that is, is nothing less of a masterpiece.


(I can't believe I hadn't found this forum before, being the prog junkie that I am. I'm finding out about plenty of awesome music thanks to you guys, cheers)


Welcome! Smile TB2 is a very good album, actually I prefer it to it predecessor (OK, don't stone me Tongue). Especially the live performance on the dvd was stunning.
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Points: 26136 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 28 2012 at 14:47
I prefer TB3 as its a lot of fun. TB2 seemed a bit pointless to me.Other than giving all the sections a name very little changed accept a modern production sheen which it didn't really need. I have the two sided live DVD of TB2 and TB3 and it stays permanently stored in the box with TB3 ready to play.
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Points: 12608 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 31 2012 at 18:44
Just got a bunch of Mike Oldfield: Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, and Incantations (with some other albums from other artists). So I expect to have some magical musical moments for the next days
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