nightspore
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Posted: Mar. 08 2011, 10:01 |
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| Quote (Ugo @ Mar. 08 2011, 09:51) | According to this, no-one in particular is credited for playing tubular bells, or "orchestral chimes" as they are more commonly called in classical contexts. So maybe they were part of the RPO. I've never heard the album either, but if the latter is the case, I think they (the bells) have little chance of being heard clearly on their own.  Anyway, I remember Mike saying that he found the bells in a room (within Abbey Road studios) which was full of unusual instruments; I also remember him saying that he got the idea to use the bells after seeing a set at Abbey Road, although he actually recorded them at The Manor. Maybe the people who ran The Manor always had a set somewhere in the studio, and they pulled it out when needed - just like the harpsichord which was left in Abbey Road's Studio 1 after a classical section, which George Harrison played on "Piggies", and which "Something" was reportedly written on. |
I read the section today, and this is how it goes (he is referring to his period at Richard Branson's Manor, not Abbey Road Studios):
"Then I remembered the tubular bells that had been left behind from John Cale's sessions, and I thought it would be a good idea to put them on as a finale."
Did you ever get any of Cale's albums, by the way?
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I do remember him saying that he got the idea for the bells by seeing them at Abbey Road. 
) but my second favourite Cale is Slow Dazzle. I think I posted a couple of tracks from that last year (yikes, now my memory is hazy 
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