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Glen

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Posted: June 26 2009, 11:55

Warmest greetings everyone. Thought I'd take a minute or so to introduce myself to you fine people.

I'm Glen and I live in Kent, south east of England. Been a fan of Mike's since first hearing you-know-what many many years ago (I still think the continuous riff at the ending of side 1 is quite simply astonishing). Naturally I had to buy the album and I was blown apart by the fact that he (pretty much)played everything himself. Followed that up with all the usual suspects ('Hergest Ridge', Ommadawn', 'Incantations' etc) but I've never seen the man live - much to my regret.

I've been a gigging muso myself for over 30 years so very rarely had the chance to see anybody else play, let alone the main-man.

I'm 53 now so a little long in the tooth to still be doing solo gigs, but still manage a few here and there, playing guitar and singing to my own midi-file backing tracks. But my first love is and always will be songwriting.
I'm a bit of a traditionalist in the sense that my songs are the usual verse-chorus-middle 8 things, but hey-ho, that's how I write.

Anyway, just thought I'd say hello to a lot of fellow Mike Oldfield fans and I hope my stay here is a long and happy one.

Thanks.

Glen.

Matt

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Posted: June 26 2009, 12:17

Hi there Glen, welcome to tubular.net.

What style of music is it you play/write? Do you ever try and cover any of Mikes material?

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Glen

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Posted: June 26 2009, 13:41

Hya Matt. No, I've never covered any of Mike's stuff, although some of the people on here did a fantastic version of the finale of side one on TB. It really is most impressive.
You can hear some of my stuff on www.soundclick.com/glenstephens if you want to have a listen.

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Posted: June 26 2009, 21:52

Welcome glen, your input will be most informative i am sure, have fun, lots of fellow musicians here, deb

Glen

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Posted: June 27 2009, 05:45

Thanks Deb. Looking forward to meeting and greeting my fellow disciples

Inkanta

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Posted: June 28 2009, 10:19

Welcome to the forums, Glen! You have some interesting tunes there on your website.

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Posted: June 28 2009, 16:03

Didn't seen this post before tonight ! Welcome into Mike's world !

HRFanUSA

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Posted: July 16 2009, 12:36

Welcome Glen!

I'm so envious you're in England. I'm in the USA and can only dream of traveling to your country someday soon. My best friend and I hope to take a trip to England maybe next year, with the explicit goal of walking on Hergest Ridge (and of course touring London!

Hope you have a grand time connecting with the rest of us MO fanatics!

Harry

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Posted: July 17 2009, 08:56

Hi Glen.Bit belated but welcome.Good to see yet another muso on here.
@HRFanUSA.Make sure you do more than just walk on Hergest Ridge and tour London while you're here.We are but a small island but there's tons to see and do here.

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Posted: July 19 2009, 11:19

welcome Glen

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