Korgscrew
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Posted: April 17 2000, 19:41 |
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After solving the mystery of the OHR (i.e. where to find it), another one appears...
There's something interesting about these recordings...
The first half has many of the guitar parts played on the electric guitar. There's a little mystery in itself - who's playing that. It certainly isn't Mike. My guess is that it is in fact Steve Hillage. I'm basing this on style, sound and the fact that he was involved in other MO performances during the early 70s - he's there in the Tubular Bells clip on the 'Elements' video (the guy wearing the odd woolly hat), and he also played the guitar parts for a live performace of TB with orchestra.
For the beginning of the second half, the guitar is absent...this could perhaps be down to arrangement, though...but something else is going on here, which the 'thunderstorm' reveals, as this section does have the electric guitar (played by the same musician as before)...GMOVJ has already said that the recordings are noisy, but in my opinion, part 2 has much less noise on it...until the thunderstorm section kicks in. When it does, the whole sound quality changes - there is suddenly a lot more noise. The actual acoustic of the room it's recorded in seems to change as well, although it can be hard to tell with MP3 compression. After this section has finished, the sound returns to how it was for the beginning. My guess is that this section has been spliced in, and is from a different performance to the rest of part 2 (but the same performance as part 1).
I have a feeling that the reason for this may be that the test pressing the soundtrack for 'A space movie' (which is probably where some of this comes from) had the a voice over dubbed over some of part 2 (someone can no doubt confirm this). The question is, though, where have these recordings come from? Which is from the test pressing (if any) and which has come from somewhere else, in which case, where? My guess here is that the beginning and end of part 2 has come from vinyl (there are some small crackles on it at the beginning), the rest from a tape...perhaps someone knows more, though...
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