Sunday Devotionals - 'effin Mike Oldfield and 'effin Tubular Bells in three parts (early Xmas gift for the five prog rock fans who come to this site)
Ethel & the Mermen would make me so happy if they would anounce their instruments in a British accent. (perhaps building up slowly into a fully ecstatic and inspiration declaration of DRUMS!) (Be nice if they had a glockenspiel too.)
haha I haven't heard this stuff in years and years - mister anchvoy (guest) 12-14-2008 3:13 pm
multiple postings about playing while sitting in a circle in a circle makes sense today.
Wait for it...
MANDOLIN!!!! (I kindasortoflovethis a little bit) - L.M. 12-14-2008 6:08 pm
and this, class, is why punk rock was invented.. - r.e.c. (guest) 12-14-2008 6:11 pm
This song financed the start of Virgin Records.
(VB via SM) - sally mckay 12-14-2008 6:41 pm
I like this live version better than the original recorded version (for which Mike Oldfield played all of the instruments).
The credits at the end of this version show that Fred Frith, Steve Hillage and Mick Taylor played the guitars. Cool.
The pompous English voice introducing the instruments is uncredited, but on the original the narrator was Vivian Stanshell, who had also introduced the musicians on 'The Intro and The Outro' by The Bonzo Dog Band.
Stanshall was often called a "great British eccentric", but this was a label he hated: it suggested that he was putting on an act. Instead, as he himself always insisted, "...he was merely being himself." [1] However, it is not difficult to understand why he received the label. Neil Innes said of their first meeting: "He was quite plump in those days. He had on Billy Bunter check trousers, a Victorian frock coat, violet pince-nez glasses, and carried a euphonium. He also wore large pink rubber ears."[2]
- L.M. 12-14-2008 8:33 pm
nothin like a little prog rock first thing Sunday morning. - sally mckay 12-15-2008 2:43 am
the next best thing to napalm. - bill 12-15-2008 1:25 pm
She isn't kidding, bill, GVB does play this sort of thing for Sally to listen to. - L.M. 12-15-2008 3:45 pm
This song was also adapted as theme music for the classic 70's horror film 'The Exorcist', which probably helped the song's sales in North America.
'The Exorcist' won an Academy Award for Sound Design, which is rather impressive for its depth and intensity. The voice of Satan was performed by the most excellent actress Mercedes McCambridge, who successfully sued the studio for omitting her name from the credits.
(Mercedes McCambridge with James Dean in 'Giant').
(VB via SM). - sally mckay 12-17-2008 12:26 am
(More Exorcist trivia:)
While filming desert scenes in ancient Niveheh, near the Iraqi town of Sinjar, the director William Friedkin taught his government bodyguards to sing the 'Good Old Captain Spaulding' song, because Saddam Hussein's predecessor as leader of the Ba'ath Party, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, seemed to have some resemblance to Groucho Marx.
Sunday Devotionals - 'effin Mike Oldfield and 'effin Tubular Bells in three parts (early Xmas gift for the five prog rock fans who come to this site)
Ethel & the Mermen would make me so happy if they would anounce their instruments in a British accent. (perhaps building up slowly into a fully ecstatic and inspiration declaration of DRUMS!) (Be nice if they had a glockenspiel too.)
- L.M. 12-14-2008 7:10 am
and playing while sitting in a circle in a circle is a wild idea too...
- r.e.c. (guest) 12-14-2008 1:48 pm
and playing while sitting in a circle in a circle is a wild idea too...
- r.e.c. (guest) 12-14-2008 1:48 pm
and playing while sitting in a circle in a circle is a wild idea too...
- r.e.c. (guest) 12-14-2008 1:48 pm
sorry bout the multi-post-net hiccup
- anonymous (guest) 12-14-2008 1:51 pm
haha I haven't heard this stuff in years and years
- mister anchvoy (guest) 12-14-2008 3:13 pm
multiple postings about playing while sitting in a circle in a circle makes sense today.
Wait for it...
MANDOLIN!!!! (I kindasortoflovethis a little bit)
- L.M. 12-14-2008 6:08 pm
and this, class, is why punk rock was invented..
- r.e.c. (guest) 12-14-2008 6:11 pm
This song financed the start of Virgin Records. (VB via SM)
- sally mckay 12-14-2008 6:41 pm
I like this live version better than the original recorded version (for which Mike Oldfield played all of the instruments).
The credits at the end of this version show that Fred Frith, Steve Hillage and Mick Taylor played the guitars. Cool.
The pompous English voice introducing the instruments is uncredited, but on the original the narrator was Vivian Stanshell, who had also introduced the musicians on 'The Intro and The Outro' by The Bonzo Dog Band.
Please read this deeply fascinating bio:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vivian_Stanshall
(VB via SM)
- sally mckay 12-14-2008 7:40 pm
- L.M. 12-14-2008 8:33 pm
nothin like a little prog rock first thing Sunday morning.
- sally mckay 12-15-2008 2:43 am
the next best thing to napalm.
- bill 12-15-2008 1:25 pm
She isn't kidding, bill, GVB does play this sort of thing for Sally to listen to.
- L.M. 12-15-2008 3:45 pm
Phantasmagoria. My favourite visual moment:
my other favourite:
- sally mckay 12-15-2008 5:10 pm
'The Intro and The Outro':
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jnz7LJMECOg
(VB via SM)
- sally mckay 12-15-2008 11:33 pm
This song was also adapted as theme music for the classic 70's horror film 'The Exorcist', which probably helped the song's sales in North America.
(Mercedes McCambridge with James Dean in 'Giant').
'The Exorcist' won an Academy Award for Sound Design, which is rather impressive for its depth and intensity. The voice of Satan was performed by the most excellent actress Mercedes McCambridge, who successfully sued the studio for omitting her name from the credits.
(VB via SM).
- sally mckay 12-17-2008 12:26 am
(More Exorcist trivia:)
While filming desert scenes in ancient Niveheh, near the Iraqi town of Sinjar, the director William Friedkin taught his government bodyguards to sing the 'Good Old Captain Spaulding' song, because Saddam Hussein's predecessor as leader of the Ba'ath Party, Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr, seemed to have some resemblance to Groucho Marx.
(VB via SM).
- sally mckay 12-17-2008 12:49 am