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Gambit Group: Members Posts: 43 Joined: Feb. 2007 Posted: Aug. 03 2010, 00:43 Hey everyone, i was just curious as to how everyone here first came about to listening to Mike Oldfield music, or how you discovered his music and how he has effected your life. Im 20 years old and live in Canada, and I remember clearly the first time i heard it. I was cleaning the basement with my dad when i was about 14. He told me to go grab a CD and put it on so we had something to listen to. I saw a neat looking CD with a weird twisted bell on it and decided to give it a shot. He said Oh good choice, I haven't listened to that in a long time" For the next 40 some minutes, we both cleaned the basement and listened to the CD. I got chills. I loved every moment of it. I asked my dad about who the artist was and he told me he was a european musician that he listened to a lot when he was in his 20's and living in germany on a canadian military base. he gathered up ALL of the his Oldfield CD's and gave them to me and told me to have a listen to them sometime. Ever since then, i have been in love and addicted to Mikes music. Not only is his music incredible, original, uplifting, spell bounding and just inspirational, it is also something that me and my dad share together. I can not count the times that me and him have spent now, cleaning the house, going out on the boat, going for road trips, and listening to Mike Oldfield. His music has brought me and my Dad so close, My Dad will be leaving to go to Afghanastan at the end of August for 9 months to serve a tour for the Canadian Military. I will miss him deeply and worry about him to death. But i know that while he is over there, he will have his ipod, with all of Oldfield's music on it, and i will also have mine. And every time he hears it, he will think of me, and every time i listen to it, i will think of him. So thats my story about how I discovered Mike, and how his music has effected my life. What stories do you all have about his music? About when you first heard him, or what meaning the music has to you. I would like to know Nate Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Aug. 03 2010, 03:10 When I discovered Mike Oldfield I discovered that in music, anything is possible. Music suddenly seemed like the greatest thing in the world to do if you could do something as colourful and abstract as Mike Oldfield's music. Even now when I make music that is very far removed from Mike's, his music is still the template. I still strive to make music that has the same ability to take you places as Mike's music. It's had a great impact in that way. Lars T -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Aug. 03 2010, 03:13 Oh wow....MO has impacted my life a lot! And I wanted to say what a fine thing your dad is doing. I believe Mike's music will protect him like a guardian angel! If you just discovered Mike, u have a lot of joy coming. I discovered him in 1973 with his first album. Since then I collected them all. God bless your father for what he is doing. I admire a soldier! Wish I could be, but I'm too old. Oh, I still remember that magic moment in 1973 when I heard the (then whatever excerpt edit) from TB1!! It was the end of side one. The climax. I was only 11. Me and my brother dropped our jaws in awe listening.  God bless your Papa and may he be well. RE: another thread, the "H" stands for "Help". We invoke the name of Jesus to help us. And He has. The middle initial "H" has no secret origin. It it is simply a way of us silly flawed humans asking Our Savoir and Lord for "HELP". Welcome to our forum Gambit. And especially your father, who is giving for all of us. God bless, Jim -------------- 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

Cooper Roy Group: Members Posts: 255 Joined: April 2010 Posted: Aug. 03 2010, 21:54 Nate.That was right-on-the-mark,kiddo.No more,no less. (I am pm you shortly regarding the opinions you so eloquently expressed here.Nice one,blue-as we say here in Brum)   CR -------------- "I have nothing but sympathy for how people behave-and nothing but laughter to console them with.Laughter is my religion.In the manner of most religions, I admit my laughter is pretty desperate."                                                                    John Irving Back to top

Incantations Group: Members Posts: 157 Joined: May 2010 Posted: Aug. 03 2010, 23:52 During the mid-eighties at a sort of used record store, I decided just to look for the oldest record they had and try it out, yes, quite the strange introduction to your favorite artist, I know. It happened to be Incantations. I still have that lp and probably have listend to it hundreds of times, and now just recently (early 2010) I decided to browse through a website called Progarchives only to find Mike Oldfield, which led me to this site. -------------- Hmm... Back to top

ex member 892 Group: Members Posts: 827 Joined: July 2008 Posted: Aug. 04 2010, 12:00 Quote (larstangmark @ Aug. 03 2010, 03:10) When I discovered Mike Oldfield I discovered that in music, anything is possible. Music suddenly seemed like the greatest thing in the world to do if you could do something as colourful and abstract as Mike Oldfield's music. Even now when I make music that is very far removed from Mike's, his music is still the template. I still strive to make music that has the same ability to take you places as Mike's music. It's had a great impact in that way. Lars T This. Your story is the same as mine, Lars. MO's music opened a lot of creative doors for me. Back to top

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