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    • #70265
      1bassleft
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      😆 , Mustard Mitt; Sometimes, my guitarist and I have a nice little idea going – then we stop dead. Reason? We can just hear that “On drums, Mr…, on bass, Mr…” etc while we’re playing. Kills the idea stone dead. Rather like the tune that smacks of “C’mon everybody, raise your hands in the air. I wanna see those hands clapping”

      Choke, barf, retch. Shame on anyone who reads this thread and thinks “what’s wrong with that?”

    • #70253
      lee_UK
      Participant

      War of the worlds? more like Geoff ‘Waynes World’.
      People tried to read in all sorts of nonsense in to that LP, it was just a mediocre soundtrack, even if it did have Richard ‘Broadsword calling danny boy, come in danny boy’ Burton on it.

    • #70231
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I wonder if Viv Stanshall was bunged in as a deliberately tongue-cheek job, rather than a pretentious MC. He was a bit barking. Now Jeff Wayne’s album was narrated by Richard Burton, no less. You’re talking about an actOR there, Lee 🙂

    • #70270
      lee_UK
      Participant

      I must admit, i really dislike Mike Oldfield and tubular bells, it was the pretentious
      ‘Electric Guitar’
      ‘Bass guitar’
      ‘Tubular Bells’
      statements going through the track, the whole album was almost as bad as Geoff Waynes ‘War of the Worlds’ which has recently sold a few more copies. Brilliant remake of the film though.

    • #70262
      1bassleft
      Participant

      A few Brits in London are wondering if Aussies can serve a pint properly yet 😆

      Sorry to disagree, Lee, and certainly over a subject like Mike Oldfield, but I think you’re wrong. “Tubbles” sticks in the brain because of its HYOOGE success, and people kindof think that’s all he did. Fact is, 99% of “artistes” would settle for a career built on his non-Tubble sales. Sure, “Hergest Ridge” and “Ommadawn” had 25 minute songs, but who didn’t in the 70s?

      OK, I know you have an answer – Stones, of course. But the hairy’un shifted considerable plastic and still managed to get single success with (as glw mentions) some truly ghastly cack that suited the 80s very nicely. I would still, without pausing, drop my street-cred (as considered by maybe three people) and swap careers.

    • #70236
      Michael
      Participant

      😆 A few Aussies over there said it’s hard to get a good steak. In the UK that is. Of course it would never compare to ours here, but I didn’t think it would be that bad.

    • #70243
      lee_UK
      Participant

      [quote=”Michael”]But every slice of corned beef is as delicious as the first.[/quote]

      Unless of course it is Argentinian, we have long memories…

    • #70210
      Michael
      Participant

      But every slice of corned beef is as delicious as the first.

    • #70256
      lee_UK
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      [quote=”1bassleft”]OK, double or nothing. Next time, I can’t spit 😛 😛 😛

      Having grown up with the hairy-faced mong most my life, I can’t describe Oldfield as a “one-hit wonder”. Tubby spent a gazillion years on top of the 33rpm charts, until knocked off by “Hergest Ridge”. Then “Ommadawn” shifted a fair amount of PVC. He earned so much, he got a haircut and even got single chart success (with utterly hideous gunk – even by 80s standards).

      I’m not kissing his butt, but he did more than just clang some metal pipes. I’ll swap my career for his; put it that way.[/quote]

      When i say 1 hit wonder, i mean everything he ever did revolved around those lumps of tuned pipes, it all sounded the same, his music is like slices of corned beef, every slice although different, looks the same.

    • #70275
      glw
      Participant

      Let’s not forget his Moonlight Shadow or his Blue Peter!

      Both were hit singles back in the day.

    • #70244
      1bassleft
      Participant

      OK, double or nothing. Next time, I can’t spit 😛 😛 😛

      Having grown up with the hairy-faced mong most my life, I can’t describe Oldfield as a “one-hit wonder”. Tubby spent a gazillion years on top of the 33rpm charts, until knocked off by “Hergest Ridge”. Then “Ommadawn” shifted a fair amount of PVC. He earned so much, he got a haircut and even got single chart success (with utterly hideous gunk – even by 80s standards).

      I’m not kissing his butt, but he did more than just clang some metal pipes. I’ll swap my career for his; put it that way.

    • #70263
      Michael
      Participant

      Would I be crazy if I thought there was a 15,000 reserve? Double or nothing 1b?

    • #70245
      lee_UK
      Participant

      Is Mike Oldfield that much of a draw? he was only ever known for 1 album, which i think was re-recorded 3 times?? was there a tubby 1 , 2 and 3? £7k and no reserve met!! i think the Bolan connection should vamp it up more than the Oldfield connection, Bolan was a very good guitar player too, and he was more than a half hit wonder.

      ‘Batten down the hatches, incoming’.

    • #70274
      Michael
      Participant

      😆 This was the only time I ever hoped I lost the bet 😛

      And like GLW said, Marc Bolan too. It’s a freakin cornucopia of talent.

    • #70255
      1bassleft
      Participant

      It’s cleared £6000 (and still not met reserve, 😯 ).

      OK Mike, I have to service your genitalia. Do you prefer me to brush my teeth before, after or during ❓ 😳 😥

    • #70260
      glw
      Participant

      …and Marc Bolan owned it too! Come on, don’t forget Mark Bolan.

    • #70030
      Michael
      Participant

      Hah, well yeah, I meant 6000 as “world wide currency” figure, be it pounds, yen or clams. I won’t need an escape route or fake bids for this baby to reach that.

    • #70106
      1bassleft
      Participant

      😯 , giving you an escape route, Mike. This is Pounds Sterling; “I promise to pay the bearer on demand, the sum of…” stuff. It’s even got Lizzie’s head on it and she’s just turned 80. None of that Dollar paper that the rest of the world scrapes by on 😆 😆

      If it clears £6000 I shall pleasure your genitalia and whistle “Waltzing Matilda” at the same time. Oh, and I know what your eBay s/n is – so don’t start bidding up the Tele, you sick pervy 😆

    • #70077
      Michael
      Participant

      2 grand alone for the guitar. 4 (maybe 3) grand for oldfield. it’s a 6K auction. I’ll bet my 8) coolness on it.

    • #70103
      1bassleft
      Participant

      I have a bra belonging to Sally Oldfield, slightly modified. Still has the original pegs from the washing line…

      I do tire, slightly, of these “as played by” auctions and barking starting prices. That’s definitely not a 4k+ guitar. I shall kiss the bootiyacks of the winning bidder that proves me wrong… 😯

    • #70073
      Michael
      Participant

      Even without the value of a 67 tele considered, I suspect they have at least 5000 grand of ‘Oldfield Value’ to meet first.

    • #70042
      1bassleft
      Participant

      glw, I just edited your post to make the Fleeb-link work – hope you don’t mind the intrusion. £4000+ and still “reserve not met”? 😯 Sorry, I’m folding….

    • #70038
      USGold
      Participant

      The pup alignment a bit unusual for a tele?-btw I can’t get to E-Bay from work so am not able to watch auction items-thanks for the post of it rather than just the link. Scott

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