lord_raiden
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Posted: May 18 2000, 18:50 |
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After I read several (mean almost half of all) topics, I decided to write more of my feelings about Mike Oldfield, the long journey he did, his music and future. Please be tolerant to my English, the article is difficult to me, but the topic is much more important.
I heard Mike's music accidentally in radio. It was song The Bell from Tubular Bells II. I didn't notice the author or album, where it was from, but that music stayed in my mind for almost one month. I hadn't heard it for a long time then. After half a year (maybe more) I visited my cousin. We were listening some music before we get to bed. There I recognized the same style of music, when I heard Tubular Bells I and I asked, who did this. That's how I met Mike's music. The strange event, I found Mike’s music tells me, that there is something magic in his music, some kind of geniality.
And now, I am missing it in last albums. Every album Mike did I like very, but when I look back, it is fact, that for every new album, it is much more difficult for me to understand it, to remember it, to love it. So I must agree to the voices telling that Mike is going wrong way for a lot of his fans.
Please, Mike, go somewhere, where you will be alone, to the forest, to the mountains, or anywhere else, but be sure not to be disturbed by common problems of a daily life. Just relax, have a nice day, empty your mind.
Don’t make music if you don’t want to. Forget the pressure of your distributor, of your band, of your fans. I'll wait possibly ten years on further album, principally if it'd be once again of such, what we everyone do like.
And what do we like? It’s hard to say, we’re all different, but if you’ll do your best and that work will go from you, not from people around you, it will be great thing for all of your fans. I’m sure; you will know what I mean. All you do is almost unreachable, there’s nobody like you, but we don’t want to listen some DJ’s in albums with YOUR name. Let they make their own albums and we can see what they can do. And, please, compose things that you like, not that we could like.
I’m only a little person to tell you what to do, but trust me, you alone will be much more satisfied with your work, if it will emerge from you, not work which is modified by such amount of people around you.
I know you can do it once again!
Trusting and hoping, one of your truly fans Petr Kantor.
P.s.: I know very well, this article will never go to Mike’s eyes, even his ears, but this is my own way to tell the world that I am Mike’s big fan and I understand, we’re before a new era of his creation. It will be either his glory, or his fall what will soon appear. I hope for another LEGEND like Tubular Bells I, II, and III.
P.s. 2nd. : Please again, be tolerant to my English.
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