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Posted: Dec. 14 2004, 08:44 |
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| Quote (Craig Evans @ Dec. 11 2004, 18:08) | | -Fender Red Precision Bass for ''live Tubular Bells''. |
It does look like fiesta red (or rather, the 'flamingo pink' form of fiesta red, which is also the colour of Mike's Strat...there's another fiesta red which is far more orange, and it's only recently that Fender acknowledged that there was a difference)...however, it's actually a natural finish. Apologies for that, I know it still says in places on this website that it's red, but it isn't.
| Quote | | Fender Blonde Telecaster for ''guilty''. This guitar was possably also for ''Don Alfonso'' because of old distortion sound which, Oldfield used before he started using his Red Gibson SG Les Paul Junior and his complex guitar effects rig. |
I suspect he actually played the L6-S on Guilty and was just shown with the Telecaster in the video because they liked the look of it.
Don Alfonso is almost certainly the SG, it's the fatter sound like he gets on Hergest Ridge.
| Quote | | Fender Sunburst Stratocaster used for ''Moonlight Shadow'', ''Shadow on the wall'', ''Crime of passion'' and ''Islands'' and ''Magic Touch''. Also used by Steve Hillage for ''live Tubular Bells''. |
Steve's was probably sunburst once...it ended up as a natural finish though, as you can no doubt see from the video. That was Steve's main guitar in the 70s, and he's pictured with it on the covers to his albums 'L' and 'Motivation Radio'.
I'm not certain Mike actually played the Strat on Magic Touch, the sound doesn't quite fit for me (I've got a feeling it even goes too high for a Strat...). That's one I'd have to check out.
| Quote | | Fender Red Stratocaster used for ''Tricks of the light'', ''To France'', and ''Pictures in the dark'' and ''Innocent''. Also used by Mick Tyler for ''live Tubular Bells''. |
Pictures In The Dark is definitely a case of Mike using a different guitar for the video than what he used on the record - that solo could only be played on a 24 fret guitar, and the Strat only has 21...
It's most likely the L6-S, though Mike also has a modified Les Paul Junior with 24 frets.
I'm not sure that the distorted solos on Tricks Of The Light and To France were recorded with the Strat either.
Doesn't Mick Taylor play a sunburst strat?
| Quote | | Blonde Gibson L6-s Deluxe (with scratch plate customised by Tony Zemaitis) used for ''North Point''. This guitar was also probably used for ''Etude'' because the similar ''smoother distorted sound'' that was used on ''North Point'' appears on ''Etude'' due to the lighter colour finish on the guitar's body and the split coil tappable Humbuckers. |
The guitar shown in the video is a wine red colour, though...to be honest, I've never quite worked out what it is, it doesn't look quite the right shape for a Les Paul, though it has the same twin chrome-covered pickups.
I'd hazard a guess that Etude is an SG, it was his favourite at the time, and the sound is right. The L6-S has a slightly more brittle sound usually, though Mike has for a long time been able to get 'his' sound out of any guitar, so sometimes it's quite difficult to tell. The colour of the finish won't have any bearing on the sound (the kind of finish *might*...that's something hotly debated amongst builders, whether an electric guitar finished in, for example, nitrocellulose sounds noticeably different to one finished in polyurethane...and indeed, even more extreme things, like whether putting finish on the insides of tone chambers in an electric guitar makes any difference).
| Quote | | Yellow Paul Read Smith Custom 24 used for ''Heaven's Open''. This guitar was probably also used on ''Earth Moving'' because the similar distortion sound that Mike Oldfield achieved in the late 80's and 90's by playing his Yellow Paul Read Smith Custom 24 through a Roland GP-8 guitar synthersiser. |
I think he used the PRS on all of Earth Moving. I have a feeling that the stuff which Mike mimes on the Strat in the Innocent video was also the PRS, actually.
The GP-8 is just an effects processor, rather than a synthesiser.
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