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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 07 2006, 08:54 I've no idea where to put this...M-C, please move it if you think it should be moved. If you look hard, very hard, in the upper-left corner of the bent bell (as pictured on the cover of TB 1973, and on The Platinum Collection), you may be able to see a face... it may even take a magnifying glass or something like that, but I'm pretty sure that there's someone's face in there. Is that Trevor Key? -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Jammer Group: Members Posts: 643 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 07 2006, 17:10 Can we have concrete proof, Ugo? I'm afraid I'm going to have to side with the skeptical. How could something remain unspotted for so long? We spotted the cat meowing at the end of In Dulci Jubilo, Mike swearing at the end of MFTB but not this... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 07 2006, 17:25 Probably it's not been spotted yet because it's very small...   Indeed, as I said above, a magnifying lens would probably be needed to spot it. However, I can't provide concrete proof because my old scanner broke down 3 years ago, I never bought a new one, and however it would be useless to scan it, because the detaill is so tiny that it would be lost or blurred even in a most accurate scan. So I'm afraid that the only way to prove this to yourself is to take the TB cover, grab a big lens and look hard in the upper-left corner...   And anyway it's not a cat at the end of IDJ. It's a guitar string. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

moonchildhippy Group: Members Posts: 1807 Joined: Dec. 2004 Posted: July 07 2006, 19:22 I did see a face in there, well not  a human face, but I think I saw what looked like a pair of Greys . www.alieneight.com/buythepacks.htm. I think these guys are cute, I'dlike to adopt a family of them . Speaking of aliens I think Mike continued the theme with Hergest Ridge, didn't he call whats commonly known the "Thunderstorm" section the "Martian" section,to me the Martian section, sounds like  how I'd imagine aliens would speak . Then again the TB face could be a trick of the light. -------------- I'm going slightly mad, It finally happened, I'm slightly mad , just very slightly mad If you feel a little glum to Hergest Ridge you should come. I'm challenging  taboos surrounding mental health "Part time hippy" I'M SUPPORTING OUR SOLDIERS BRING OUR TROOPS HOME NOW!! Back to top

Deadcalm Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 752 Joined: Nov. 2004 Posted: July 08 2006, 09:14 On my Copy of the 25th Anniversary CD Cover I can make out a Imperfection on the Bell that  Ugo Mentioned Top Left Corner of the Bell that looks Slightly like a small Circular Smilie type Image....using a magnifier !! lol.. could be anything though !! Back to top

Bleat Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: June 2006 Posted: July 08 2006, 09:30 I got original LP version in hands and I cant see anything If there is anything there, I guess its just a shape in the clouds.....I could look out my window now and see a face up there ......or maybe a cow or something in glorious Stereophonic Sound..Can also be played on monophonic equipment at a pinch. and remember....... This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are fitted with...If you are in possession of such equipment,please hand it into the nearest police station.......   hang on I think I can see a shark in the water........bottom right. from Bleat Back to top

Tubularman Group: Awaiting Authorisation Posts: 2304 Joined: June 2004 Posted: July 08 2006, 19:40 Say hello to Trevor Key here   -------------- Mike Oldfield M i x e s https://soundcloud.com/tubularman Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: July 08 2006, 22:59 Ugo--seems like as good a place as any! I wonder if seeing a face on the bell is part of our natural tendency to see human features in objects....to anthropormorphize things....like the Moon, one of the features on Mars, etc...to see shapes in clouds as Bleat mentioned? I wasn't sure if my album cover contained anything at all or if it had become scruffed up over the years from pulling it out of the record cabinet. Should I ever find a magnifying glass, I'll give it a go, though. Moonchildhippy--we used to have a couple of those creatures around here, but they eventually deflated and I have no idea what became of them. Maybe they returned to their homeworld? -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: July 09 2006, 19:03 Okay, I shall try to give a more precise reference. Take the TB (1973) booklet, or, still better, the Platinum Collection booklet. Now, from the exact point where the bell is bent in the inner side of the upper left corner, count four millimeters. You should see a dot, a small circle which breaks a continuous line. On the original TB CD booklet, this dot is very small, and it may look as nothing more than an artifact of the photo. But on the Plat. Coll. booklet, the dot is bigger, it's pink and it's got something black on its sides... very like hair... Maybe I should remind everybody that we're talking about a very small, very tiny detail here - and a very distorted one too, one which even on the LP cover (where the dot is actually large half a centimeter) may be recognizable as nothing more than a dot. But - M-C call me crazy if you wish - I see it as a face. And as the bell, AFAIK, was photographed by Trevor Key in a studio, and no one else was in the studio [the big, bright white distorted lines you see on the bell are probably strong neon lights... ] ...who can that face belong to, if not to mr. Key? P.S.: I don't believe in the so-called "Face on Mars". -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

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