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Jammer Group: Members Posts: 641 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 10 2004, 12:44 I had a brainwave about the FATC speech last night What's in the bag of secrets? The clue's in the title Far Above the Clouds - It's an oxygen tank of course, plus a set of Tubular Bells! At that altitude he'd have respiratory problems on his journey up the mountain Then again with the line "There's still time to ride that train" he could have taken a cable car up the mountain... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 10 2004, 18:15 I think he also brought with him a mac [an overcoat, not a computer!! ]. After all, he was the Man in the Rain, wasn't he? And of course he also had a mallet (or something) to play the Bells. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 10 2004, 19:12 This: Mike's New Look from TB III That was shocking,for most people out there.It was the first pic I saw from Mike when I really got into his music,after the early memories of TB II live. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: May 10 2004, 19:17 You mean to say, Tati, that in the bag of secrets was a bottle of SuperBlond from Tesco? Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 11 2004, 11:37 Quote (Korgscrew @ May 10 2004, 20:17) You mean to say, Tati, that in the bag of secrets was a bottle of SuperBlond from Tesco? Hahahahaha...yeah,exactly 6 boxes and applications of superblonde from Tesco,as well as a new look in terms of clothing. Serious,Mike Oldfield,in a clubber mode. -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 11 2004, 18:26 Quote (Tati The Sentinel @ May 11 2004, 17:37) Serious,Mike Oldfield,in a clubber mode. I never heard that being in a 'clubber mode' implied radically changing the color of your hair. Or maybe it's all-too-evident that I'm not a clubber. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

olracUK Group: Members Posts: 1683 Joined: June 2003 Posted: May 11 2004, 19:26 Actually, the blonde was instead of this http://www.westons.com/acatalo....75.html But now he has "MotorBike Hair" (cut very short) maybe he's gone natural? -------------- The answer is 42 - but what is the question? Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 11 2004, 22:29 Quote (olracUK @ May 11 2004, 20:26) Actually, the blonde was instead of this http://www.westons.com/acatalo....75.html But now he has "MotorBike Hair" (cut very short) maybe he's gone natural? Gosh,we have the same product here in Brazil,and it's the worst type of hair dye,since you've got lead on the formula,ackkkk! The brand new style I'd say,"Motobike's Helmet Cut",and it's brown again,but dye boosted(not to show the grey haido at all...) About Mike Oldfield clubber version meant the music(techno music as seen by Mike),not his style   Another thingie from the Bag of Secrets - Mike had returned to live concerts after a 5-year gap! -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

CuNimb Group: Members Posts: 222 Joined: July 2003 Posted: May 12 2004, 07:36 I think the bag contained his sandwiches, and an apple -------------- Happy? ha ha ha.... Back to top

TOBY Group: Members Posts: 1562 Joined: May 2002 Posted: May 17 2004, 16:51 I can tell you what wasn't in the bag of secrets - some decent ideas for the album. Back to top

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: May 18 2004, 16:47 Well I think inside the bag of secrets he'd keep a spare motorcycle key, or possibly another bag of secrets.... ... and inside that bag of secrets there'd be.... -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 641 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 18 2004, 18:08 "Life is like a baig of secrets - ya never know what ure gonna geet" I think I've come to the conclusion that the FATC speech is just plain babble. An offshoot of Mike's not so good lyric writing capabilities. Still a good cryptic quotation to put on a TB3 poster! Back to top

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: May 18 2004, 19:57 According to one of his interviews the 'secrets' refer to the knack of making dance music. But in FATC, IMHO the aim of the lyrics is to sum up the titles on the albums -> the experiments of his life in Ibiza and a reference that he is himself (the creator of Tubular Bells) again. -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

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