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Olivier Group: Super Admins Posts: 1867 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Oct. 21 2013, 16:09 As part of the 40th anniversary of Virgin Records, Richard Branson has posted a scan of the original Tubular Bells order from September 20th 1972 on his blog. Back to top

First_Excursion Group: Members Posts: 280 Joined: Aug. 2012 Posted: Oct. 21 2013, 18:27 "Hired" a set of guitar strings?   Back to top

clac Group: Members Posts: 18 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Oct. 22 2013, 02:58 Quote I enjoyed a delightful visit to the Bahamas to meet up with Mike this week - more on that soon huuum, interesting ! Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1357 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Oct. 22 2013, 04:39 I though Mike said he just saw the Tubular Bells being taken out of the studio after John Cale used them and asked if he could use them? So, does that mean Virgin had to re-hire them? Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Oct. 22 2013, 06:41 " Farfisa organ, not paying for - broke down"   -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Thea Cochrane Group: Musicians Posts: 445 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Oct. 28 2013, 07:32 Quote (First_Excursion @ Oct. 21 2013, 23:27) "Hired" a set of guitar strings?   It's probably like the little microphones they use in musicals - they break so often that you just assume when you hire them out that the same brand of microphones will come back, even if it's not the same actual microphone. The strings were probably invoiced independently of the guitar in case musicians had their own preferred strings. Back to top

ian Group: Members Posts: 473 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Nov. 04 2013, 03:37 Yes, I thought the same. That the bells were an afterthought of some other session when they were about to be packed off and sent back. Back to top

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