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Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: May 19 2003, 06:42 Quote (MusicallyInspired @ May 18 2003, 18:43) Quote I know plenty of people who write and play heavy metal just for the fun of going nuts Well I stand corrected then. But usually from what I've heard it's written for the releasing of emotions. Heh, well...to be perfectly serious, there are lots of reasons to write it (if we count certain guitar 'virtuosos' as being heavy metal, showing off technical ability would be one reason)...but going nuts is fun occasionally   In case it's relevant, Mike said Crises was what he called rock - it was a journalist who said there was heavy metal on there. Back to top

MusicallyInspired Group: Musicians Posts: 1445 Joined: June 2001 Posted: May 19 2003, 07:27 That's true, too. -------------- BrandonBlume.com "The beauty in life is in the embracing of the variety of things. If all the world was blue there would be no colour blue." Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: May 19 2003, 16:11 Oh......... oke.......... uhm... sorry about that -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1351 Joined: April 2001 Posted: May 20 2003, 10:48 This whole blues thing confuses me,i mean B Blues is meant as a tribute to BB King,but Mike is not a blues player,never has been,and he has said he does'nt care much for playing in the blues scale,so,why would he make a BB King tribute track,and make it sound nothing like BB King?.So is it really a BB King tribute? Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: May 22 2003, 05:48 Here's another very obvious one: Pop! Back to top

Gandalph Group: Members Posts: 81 Joined: Aug. 2002 Posted: May 22 2003, 09:51 Another obvious one would be Jazz (MFTB) -------------- Yet Another Mike Oldfield Web Site - http://www.dbennett.karoo.net Back to top

Cloth Ears Unregistered Posted: Nov. 15 2004, 15:32 Is it just me or has anybody else noticed how similar the guitar style Mike has, on the Carl Palmer track called Ready Mix (around the 5 miles out period I think) is to the guitar sound Big Country guitarist Stuart Adamson had? I know Mike worked with Adam during his Skids days.  Just wondered if anyone else thinks somebody’s influenced somebody here. Back to top

MaXiMo Group: Members Posts: 26 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: Dec. 10 2004, 18:48 Just everything except TECHNO -------------- If you want to be a good person, you must be like me. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Dec. 16 2004, 02:20 Oh No, as much as I prefer Mikes very early stuff like TB, HR  Ommadawn and Incantations, to some of the crap he did in the 80's, and I love the newer stuff from Amarok and TBII and beyond, my stand out by a mile favourite peice of music by Mike is the excerpt from TBIII on the Essential Mike Oldfield, (except for the distorted bit which bugs me if I have it too loud), and this is most definitely TECHNO. Tracy. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Dec. 16 2004, 06:16 Anyone able to tell what this bit is called on TB3? -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Dec. 17 2004, 06:55 I think that would be The Source Of Secrets (Track 1), but the TBIII version is slightly different. Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Dec. 18 2004, 19:05 Yes it is 'the Source of Secrets' track from TBIII but it is much more Techno than what ends up on the album. I read that he originally did the whole of 'side1' of TBIII in Techno, due to his drug induced time in dance clubs in Ibiza, but later decided it was too much. I would still love to hear it but apparently the only piece that has been saved and recorded is this little piece on the Essential Mike Oldfield cd. This one is much grittier and has male vocals instead of female vocals, and 1 minute 28 seconds into it it goes spastic which is the part I love, it is 3 minutes and 40 seconds long. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

TwyliteMagick Group: Members Posts: 14 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: Dec. 21 2004, 06:30 Sorry to interrupt, but does anyone else feel Mike's gone "dancy" over the last couple of albums? I don't think I like all the synths. -------------- "Whatever happened to the teenage dream?" It shrivelled and burned in the flames of reality, to become the fuel that destroys the next generation. Still, no worries, eh? Back to top

TubularBelle Group: Members Posts: 1487 Joined: April 2004 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 00:13 Well he certainly went dancy while living in Ibiza which has a huge dance culture but I think he has steered away from that again now since moving away. -------------- I hate getting up early. I didn't even realise there were two 6 o'clocks in one day! Back to top

DanishDonJuan Group: Members Posts: 137 Joined: Sep. 2003 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 06:49 I have read Western, Raggae, Swing, Heavy Metal, Classical, Irish Folk, Dance, Techno, Rock'n'roll, Pop, Jazz.... Has anyone mentioned New Age, Progressive Rock, Soundtrack Score, Latin, Blue Grass, and Opera? Is there any category he has not touched? I can think of few, but not many. (Disco, Speed Metal, and Country is some of the only ones I can think of that I do not recall him doing.) -------------- If every road we traveled were the easy, we would be weak, and would eventually think every road difficult. If every road we traveled tough, we would be strong and eventually think no road to be difficult. Its the tough road that leads to happiness. A smooth sea never made a great sailor. Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 10:47 Quote (DanishDonJuan @ Dec. 23 2004, 12:49) Is there any category he has not touched? I can think of few, but not many. (Disco, Speed Metal, and Country is some of the only ones I can think of that I do not recall him doing.) Black metal, death metal, goth metal, hardcore, hip-hop, world fusion, musical (he wanted to make one though), grunge, free jazz, R&B, funk. -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 16:28 Quote (DanishDonJuan @ Dec. 23 2004, 12:49) Is there any category he has not touched? I can think of few, but not many. (Disco, Speed Metal, and Country is some of the only ones I can think of that I do not recall him doing.) Oh, but he has made Disco. Guilty is quite definitely "Disco" (in a Mike way of course), as well as some of Platinum, and even the "Sana Rosana" section of Taurus II has something Disco-ish to it. Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 16:30 And as for the metal thing... well, I'm quite the metal fan, and to my mind, lots of Mike's material has a similar edge to it, just in a much more subtle way. Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 17:14 Funny though, how a lot of what you could call nu metal vocalist's sound like piltdown man, only piltdown man is bit less aggressive and easier to understand. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Dec. 23 2004, 17:19 ps I think just about everyone had a go at disco, remember Kiss, I was born for lovin you.........pheweeeeee. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

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