How long has it been since you heard . . .

Post by **Animavore** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:01 pm

I don't think I ever heard it

EDIT:

I have heard it.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:03 pm

Animavore wrote:I don't think I ever heard it

EDIT: I have heard it.

Main theme from "The Exorcist". If you haven't heard it, you were never born.

Post by **klr** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:18 pm

I haz de album ...

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:20 pm

klr wrote:I haz de album ...

"And now, TUBULAR BELLS!!!" Sweet.

Post by **Animavore** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:22 pm

I have the album too (got it free in a Sunday newspaper) but I've never listened to it.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:26 pm

Animavore wrote:I have the album too (got it free in a Sunday newspaper) but I've never listened to it.

Okay, then you should know that "Tubular Bells" takes up one side of an LP, and Mike is the only musician on that piece.

Post by **Animavore** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:30 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:
Animavore wrote:I have the album too (got it free in a Sunday newspaper) but I've never listened to it.
Okay, then you should know that "Tubular Bells" takes up one side of an LP, and Mike is the only musician on that piece.

WTF?

Mike Oldfield

Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs; flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano (piano with detuned strings), mandolin, piano, "Piltdown Man", percussion, Spanish guitar, "double speed guitar", producer, "taped motor drive amplifier organ chord", timpani, violin, vocals and tubular bells.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:32 pm

Animavore wrote:
Gawdzilla wrote:
Animavore wrote:I have the album too (got it free in a Sunday newspaper) but I've never listened to it.
Okay, then you should know that "Tubular Bells" takes up one side of an LP, and Mike is the only musician on that piece.
WTF?

Mike Oldfield

Acoustic guitar, bass guitar, electric guitar, Farfisa, Hammond, and Lowrey organs; flageolet, fuzz guitars, glockenspiel, "honky tonk" piano (piano with detuned strings), mandolin, piano, "Piltdown Man", percussion, Spanish guitar, "double speed guitar", producer, "taped motor drive amplifier organ chord", timpani, violin, vocals and tubular bells.

Made it hard to tour.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:33 pm

Post by **Animavore** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:34 pm

I don't get it.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:34 pm

Animavore wrote:I don't get it.

Custom instrument.

Post by **Animavore** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:37 pm

Or not.

According to Oldfield the "Piltdown Man" shouting sequence came about when he had practically finished recording the instruments for the section, but felt that it needed something else. The whiskey-fueled idea to create the "Piltdown Man" effect was to shout and scream into a microphone while running the tape at a lower speed.

Post by **Gawdzilla Sama** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 12:39 pm

Animavore wrote:Or not.

According to Oldfield the "Piltdown Man" shouting sequence came about when he had practically finished recording the instruments for the section, but felt that it needed something else. The whiskey-fueled idea to create the "Piltdown Man" effect was to shout and scream into a microphone while running the tape at a lower speed.

Piltdown man - The 'caveman' vocals that are on part two at 11:55. Mike had recorded all the instruments on this section, but thought it needed something more...just nobody was sure quite what. As a crazy idea had after drinking rather a lot of whisky down at the pub local to The Manor (according to one interview...another says that Mike found the whisky in the cellar of The Manor), they ran the tape at a lower speed while Mike shouted and screamed drunkenly into the microphone. With this, the caveman was born. Piltdown man refers to a famous archaeological hoax done with parts of human and monkey skulls put together, which were claimed to be the 'missing link' between man and ape.

Post by **AshtonBlack** » Sat Dec 26, 2009 1:05 pm

Gawdzilla wrote:

LOL... I have the orchestral version in the car. Listened to it on the way up to my mum and dad's 2 days ago.

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