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Re: OT-AFAH (Off Topic And Funny As Hell) MicroSoft's take on livelooping ; -)



Hm, I have to say that I was at a debut for Mike Oldfield's retooled "Tubular Bells 2003" on SACD and Audio DVD (DVD Europe 2003), where Mike talked about how the bells were in the studio filled with instruments that Virgin granted him the use of for just ten days.  He said that they didn't know how to play them properly, and that they were slightly damaged in the process of making the album.  A note about this is found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells :
 
"The concept for the triangular bell on the album cover art originally came from the idea of a bell which had been destroyed. Oldfield had come up with this when he had dented the set of Tubular Bells to record the album when playing them."
 
So perhaps a new fold in the story, or another version of it.
 
At DVD Europe 2003, though the first half of the Audio DVD was played for us and it'd been remixed and overdubbed, very disappointing to a number of us who could remember how the original sounded.  John Cleese used for the voice announcing the instruments - one of the only times I can remember thinking his voice just didn't belong...
 
So it would seem there are multiple timelines being concurrently maintained by some folks in the process.  Confusing at best, since usually what one is used to is the idea that everything from the record company is BS, and the artist's version is usually closer to the truth.  Hm, sometimes.
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Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 8:30 AM
Subject: Re: OT-AFAH (Off Topic And Funny As Hell) MicroSoft's take on livelooping ; -)

I'm reminded of the problems Mike Oldfield had in re-recording "Tubular Bells", in that tubular bells aren't easy to find, and (apparently) aren't very in tune, so he and Trevor Horn struggled to find good samples or anything they could use for a really Big And Impressive sounding tubular bell.  They ended up using some kid's toy bell, sampling that, and then using harmonizers and such to deepen it and produce the desired effect.

And, then I discovered this, which is funny as hell if you're familiar with the ending of "Tubular Bells".

Tubular Cow Bells!:


TH

On Fri, Jan 16, 2009 at 12:23 AM, Stefan Tiedje <stefantiedje@googlemail.com> wrote:
kkissinger@kevinkissinger.com schrieb:

Make sure that you amp each cowbell seperately and make sure that each amp goes up to eleven.

No, No, unless you feed all cowbells through the same distortion pedal. With separated amps you'd miss the cross modulation...
But it can't be wrong to play all through a huge wall of Marshall amps...
Come on, lets put up the biggest cowbell orchestra of the world, should be a snap to enter the guiness book of records...