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yanouch65 Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: April 20 2010, 12:26 Hi guys.... I have just found this link on a Spanish blog. http://fannyoldfield.zenfolio.com/p86870574/h1e36cbd8#h1e36cbd8 I think these hands belong to our favourite musician... Thank you Dani... -------------- 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

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: April 20 2010, 12:32 Of course it's Mike's hands...and he has now a red Telecaster to have fun   -------------- "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

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: April 20 2010, 15:33 Ohhh yesss !!! Tati you're right ! This seems to be a really nice Telecaster ... i really eager to listen to something new from Mike ! Yeah Yeah Yeah ! Back to top

captain cavern Group: Members Posts: 267 Joined: Oct. 2003 Posted: April 20 2010, 16:11 I have often noticed that Mike keeps a long nail on the thumb of his left hand. >>>> http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/5135/mikeem.jpg Why ? Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 21 2010, 03:10 Whoopee!They're Mike's and that's the tele Fanny mentioned!Interestingly with a big fat Seymour Duncan humbucker in the neck position (ok nerd moment i know),but this says to me big fat guitar tone.Usually the tele,for non guitar nerds,has a little skinny pick up here which gives a nice round but fairly thin tone.Think Tubular Bells in particular the section between the Caveman and The Sailors Hornpipe or the bit immediately before the guitar and organ duet on side 2.Stick a humbucker in the same position (after some fun with a router to make space)and think Exposed TB Part 2 solo.  Now i'm really getting excited about a new album.New guitars,new tones.Cool. Oh and about the thumb nail.I used to think it was for playing the harp as he has always kept it long as far back as Ommadawn but he hasn't done that for a long time,at least on record.I keep mine short cos it gets in the way if i have to play chords using the left thumb  (although the right one is kept fairly long).So i really don't unless he has some technique that involves the thumb nail. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Milamber Group: Musicians Posts: 2275 Joined: Feb. 2010 Posted: April 21 2010, 03:15 Quote (captain cavern @ April 21 2010, 07:11) I have often noticed that Mike keeps a long nail on the thumb of his left hand. He cant pick his nose with his right hand, it would gum up the  strings. Would turn Ommadawn into OhmyGod Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 21 2010, 03:21 Eugh!Snotty strings.He could join Jools Holland's band and play along to his bogey-woogie piano.Sorry that was sh*t! -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: April 22 2010, 10:31 The old man is getting chubby! -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: April 22 2010, 11:49 Quote (^NabLa^ @ April 22 2010, 14:31) The old man is getting chubby! Even when he was younger,his hands were some sort of chubby... -------------- "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

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: April 22 2010, 18:54 ... do you know that Mike is a guitarist ? his fingers are not "chubby" but only muscled that's all ! I already noticed in some old pics that Mike is always doing exercises with his hands like crushing a ball when he is on holiday just to muscle his fingers.. Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: April 22 2010, 22:29 Quote (Tubular Tos @ April 22 2010, 22:54) ... do you know that Mike is a guitarist ? his fingers are not "chubby" but only muscled that's all ! I already noticed in some old pics that Mike is always doing exercises with his hands like crushing a ball when he is on holiday just to muscle his fingers.. Look at Steve Howe's hands...he's also a guitarist like Mike but his fingers are not muscled neither chubby,just thin   What I do care is what those hands are capable of doing with any guitar around. -------------- "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

^NabLa^ Group: Members Posts: 187 Joined: Oct. 2001 Posted: April 23 2010, 05:48 Quote (Tubular Tos @ April 22 2010, 23:54) ... do you know that Mike is a guitarist ? his fingers are not "chubby" but only muscled that's all ! I already noticed in some old pics that Mike is always doing exercises with his hands like crushing a ball when he is on holiday just to muscle his fingers.. I might be wrong here but AFAIK we indeed have no muscles in our fingers other than the thumb at its base. Rather, they're connected by tendons to muscles in our forearms - an easy way of checking this out is by grabbing one of your forearms and flexing one of your fingers, you will notice the muscles flexing there. -------------- ^NabLa^ Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 23 2010, 07:25 Very true.I don't think the thickness of the fingers has anything to do with it.The tendons have to be fairly strong to bend the strings but a lot of the stregnth is in the wrist (no smutty comments you dirty minded sods-you know who you are)anyway. Look at the old blues players.Some of those guys had fingers like sausages.I'm thinking about people like Albert King or BB.No-one can say that they couldn't play.  On the other hand the great Peter Green had really skinny 'girly' hands and what that man could do to a guitar in his day was magical. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

yanouch65 Group: Members Posts: 680 Joined: Feb. 2006 Posted: May 06 2010, 03:18 Mike's fingers in 1980... [img]http://nsa14.casimages.com/img....mg] Fantastic! -------------- 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

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: May 24 2010, 19:46 And now,it's not just the hands: http://fannyoldfield.zenfolio.com/p111393749/h297e6c68#h297e6c68 \o/ -------------- "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

Michael Hilton Group: Members Posts: 255 Joined: Oct. 2007 Posted: May 24 2010, 21:18 I like to keep long nails if i can, i drive trucks for a living so i'm always breaking them. If you're r/h when playing you dont use l/h thumb much, but i also like the l/h thumbnail long to match the r/h thumbnail, call it vanity if you like. Back to top

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: May 25 2010, 03:48 Quote (Michael Hilton @ May 25 2010, 03:18) ... i drive trucks for a living so i'm always breaking them.... Welcome to the club ! ... and it really hurts ! As i am not a real guitarist i don't have much dexterity and velocity but i've noticed when i play with my nails ( not all , i can't manage to do it) the sound is very close to the one of Mike and this rather than when i play with a plectrum . So long nails are essential !   Back to top

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: May 25 2010, 04:05 Quote (Tati The Sentinel @ May 25 2010, 01:46) And now,it's not just the hands: http://fannyoldfield.zenfolio.com/p111393749/h297e6c68#h297e6c68 \o/ Again new pics about the Oldfield family ! Great ! Tati ? In your opinion ? Does Mike is thinking to new melodies for the next Telecaster album ? Back to top

nightspore Group: Members Posts: 4770 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: May 25 2010, 04:56 Quote (Tubular Tos @ May 25 2010, 03:48) So long nails are essential !   Nine inch nails?   Back to top

Philippe Tavares Group: Members Posts: 1613 Joined: Feb. 2005 Posted: May 25 2010, 06:25 Quote (nightspore @ May 25 2010, 10:56) Quote (Tubular Tos @ May 25 2010, 03:48) So long nails are essential !   Nine inch nails?   Sorry but for me NIN music is just a big s... ! and their philosophy too ! Back to top

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