TubularBelle
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Posted: Oct. 06 2006, 19:17 |
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Ooh I would love to get into a discussion about Philip Glass, I know he has been mentioned on here before. Can you tell me what album you got this from? I've been wanting to hear that. I actually like the old fashioned church choir singing style in this but it definitely lacks the pizazz of Mikes version.
Heres the story: I got into Mike when I was 12 and my brother was just 7. I moved out of home at 16 (he was 11) and left my TB record behind because I didn't have my own stereo. I got sidetracked with having debts and babies and it wasn't until 1984, when I was 24 and bro was 19 and we went on a 3 week car trip along the coast of Australia, that I discovered that my brother had grown to love my TB album and had bought every album Mike had done up to 84. I still owned only TB. So on this trip I got stoned for the first time and heard all of these albums for the first time, but thats another story  . I suppose I could fairly say that my brother was as big or a bigger fan of Mikes than I was at the time and he remained a fan for many years. As he has gotten older though, he has started listening to more quiet music like Enya and ambient stuff, and then just very recently, he discovered Philip Glass. I can't recall the name of the track, I'm sure any Glass fans would know it, but he heard a piano peice on ABC radio and just had to have it and he went out and bought the album, something he had not been inspired to do for many years, on his very low income and with his declining interest in music. He gave me the cd and asked me to copy it onto cassette tape for him so he could play it his car, and I said, 'Sure, Philip Glass, I know him, they talk about him on tubularnet, he wrote North Star you know that is on the Platinum album' (I can't believe I just had to go and look that up, how embarrassing) and he looked at me with great surprise. He could not believe that little old me, common old Mike fan could know who Philip Glass was! I scoffed at him, 'Are you kidding, are you trying to say that Glass is a better musician than Mike?' He said, 'of course he is'. I said, 'he is boring and repetitious'. He said, 'you think Mikes not repetitious?' I said, 'sure, but in an exciting keep you interested kind of way, not in a monotonous way'. I was quite shocked that someone who knew Mikes music as well as he did could say this. I said to him, 'you're just getting old John, you can't handle the excitement anymore'. He said, 'yeh I suppose thats true, I don't like the way it goes from soft to loud so suddenly, it hurts my ears!'. I wondered if that was because they were made of cloth but I didn't dare ask.
I know this is just me being very lazy but do you think you could put Mikes version next to the link for this one so I can play them one after the other.
Tracy.
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