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Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Sep. 07 2003, 05:43 I wonder if you people ever have been in the Hard Rock café in London (um, yeah, I guess you did)? But I went there once on vacation, and they always have instruments or other objects of famous musicians hanging on the walls. Well, there were these face masks that were painted by famous people, and one was done by Mike! I never mentioned this before on the forums. It just popped into my mind right now! I was there in London a few years ago. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

qjamesfloyd Group: Members Posts: 1357 Joined: April 2001 Posted: Sep. 07 2003, 07:57 If You goto the Rock and Roll circus Mike is there to,there is a photo of him getting his hands made into a cast,for a wall/walk of fame Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Sep. 07 2003, 09:33 Yes, I have seen that too. The same year I was there. My hand is almost as big as Mike, though he has a longer pink. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Sep. 07 2003, 16:55 I went on both places,not on my Mike Oldfield fan mode. Next time I have the chance to go on both places I´ll check it! As far as I know,Mike used to have some fun with painting in the past. Do you remember about about that mask,and if there´s any hint @ HRC about this? -------------- "But it's always the outsider, the black sheep, that becomes the blockbuster." - Mike Oldfield, 2014 "I remember feeling that I'd been judged unfairly and that I was going to prove them wrong." - Peter Davison, 2011 Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Sep. 07 2003, 17:14 Oh yes! You'll see the masks displayed on the wall behind the bar (if they haven't changed the lay-out of the café since then that is). Below the masks are the names of the artists who painted it. If I remember correctly, Mike did not paint the whole mask, just some green, red, white and (maybe) yellow lines. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

manintherain Unregistered Posted: Jan. 09 2004, 06:34 Hard Rock Cafe Guangzhou in China lists the following memorabilia under the Top Ten Items: Mike Oldfield 1975 custom Zemaitis 6-string acoustic guitar with mother of pearl acorns and squirrels on neck and sound hole, owned and played by "Tubular Bells" composer Mike Oldfield. Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Jan. 09 2004, 14:54 Mmmmmmmmm, didn't know that! Thanks again, I hope I will could check it out someday. (wait a minute, weren't there any rumours of a Jarre concert in that area in 2004?) -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Jan. 09 2004, 15:32 I wish that kind of thing didn't hang around on a wall in a Hard Rock Café but was played by someone who can actually create something with it. Back to top

Airborne Group: Members Posts: 192 Joined: Sep. 2006 Posted: Oct. 01 2009, 07:00 Quote (Guest @ Jan. 09 2004, 11:34) Hard Rock Cafe Guangzhou in China lists the following memorabilia under the Top Ten Items: Mike Oldfield 1975 custom Zemaitis 6-string acoustic guitar with mother of pearl acorns and squirrels on neck and sound hole, owned and played by "Tubular Bells" composer Mike Oldfield. See it here: http://memorabilia.hardrock.com/?item=022278 You need Silverlight from Microsoft to view it but you can zoom in to incredible detail. Back to top

manintherain Group: Members. Posts: 546 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Oct. 05 2009, 14:44 Hi David, thanks a lot for sharing. Interesting to see it has seen quite some heavy use: "I'm very careful about the Zemaitis. I don't drop it or anything, because it was built just the way I wanted it, as far as color and inlays." Mike Oldfield: A Rare Interview With The English Guitarist, Studio Wizard, and Composer of "Tubular Bells", 1978, Guitar Player And now I can see what MGO acoustics means: Michael Gordon Oldfield, handcrafted by Tony Zemaitis himself! Edited by manintherain on Oct. 05 2009, 14:49 Back to top

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