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The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 10:12 I was talking to my bassist last night about music and guitarists and i mentioned that my favourite player of all time was Mike Oldfield.Jean-Michel thought about this for a moment and said (imagine a polish-canadian accent)"yes....i like Mike Oldfield.His playing is very.......elegent".  The word elegent just seemed to sum up his playing,and indeed a lot of his music,perfectly.  In one or two words how would you guys sum it up?And it can be anything you want. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 11:04 I don't know about Elegant. Makes me think of Mark Knopfler. I would say his playing is distinct. He knows what notes he intend to play and you get to hear them all. Lars T -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

yanouch65 Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 11:20 God -------------- Ray said : "it is a shame you don't play" manintherain said: "You´d better ask Mr. Y who was first" yanouch65 says: "I am in love with Scotland" Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 12:46 I agree with you Caveman... elegant is a perfect word. Beautiful is another. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 13:54 Pure springs to mind too.Especially some of his acoustic playing.Free of the posturing BS of a lot of players. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 16:26 The Best. -------------- "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

bee Group: Members Posts: 1227 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 16:59 Elegant and pure I agree with would also add intuitive passionate sensitive controlled sorry, more than 2 there trying to think of word that sums up the emotion I can hear in his playing, but unsuccessful so far -------------- ....second to the right and straight on till morning.... You heard me before Yet you hear me again Then I die Till I call me again Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 17 2010, 18:59 I don't think that words such as "elegant" or "beautiful" sum up all of Mike's playing. There are quite a few violent passages, all through his 20+ albums, which have no elegance or beauty at all - they are just extremely powerful. Maybe they do find their beauty in their power, but they're not "beautiful" in the strictest sense of the word. My choice of words? Well, there's more than two also for me. Inventive. Innovative. Original. New. Different. Maybe the last is the best one. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2275 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: Mar. 18 2010, 07:45 Life Altering Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: Mar. 18 2010, 09:09 Paramour. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Drealm Group: Members Posts: 170 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: Mar. 18 2010, 12:13 Inspired and precise Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 25 2010, 00:00 How 'bout three words? Over too soon. Hehe. -------------- "I'm no physicist, but technically couldn't Mike both be with the horse and be flying through space at the same time? (On account of the earth's orbit around the Sun and all that). So it seems he never had to make the choice after all. I bet he's kicking himself now." - clotty Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Mar. 25 2010, 03:54 Elegant and mind-altering. -------------- We raise our voices in the night Crying to heaven And will our voices be heard Or will they break Like the wind Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: Mar. 25 2010, 05:33 Quote (Sweetpea @ Mar. 25 2010, 00:00) How 'bout three words? Over too soon. Hehe. Hello Sweatpea.Where have you been?!   -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: Mar. 25 2010, 06:17 Quote (yanouch65 @ Mar. 17 2010, 17:20) God The same ! Back to top

Holger Group: Members Posts: 1506 Joined: Feb. 2003 Posted: Mar. 27 2010, 19:30 badass "Elegant" doesn't quite hit the mark for me. His playing nowadays might be considered elegant but in the earlier days it was far from elegant, in fact quite sloppy but in a way that completely worked and only added to the intensity of the music. I guess "unique" could be the one word that best describes it. He sounds like no-one else, even these days. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: April 01 2010, 11:13 Snake charmer. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2275 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: April 14 2010, 07:32 Quote (wiga @ April 02 2010, 02:13) Snake charmer. If Mike's the charmer what does that make us I finally get to be The Black Adder Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 14 2010, 09:23 Lol.Better that than White Snake! -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

wiga Group: Members Posts: 2113 Joined: Sep. 2008 Posted: April 15 2010, 06:19 Quote (milamber @ April 14 2010, 07:32) Quote (wiga @ April 02 2010, 02:13) Snake charmer. If Mike's the charmer what does that make us I finally get to be The Black Adder It makes ME a belly dancer Snake Charmer. -------------- Barn's burnt down - now I can see the moon. Back to top

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