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Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 03:25 ... people were wearing these clothes: Sears catalog -------------- "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

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 05:37 Well in that same month of may 1973 my team won the FA cup final for the first time since 1937,and have won absolutely nothing since... 5th May 1973 Also just over a week later on the 17th of may Mrs Star was born.Or Miss Supernova I guess as she would have been known back in those days..   Back to top

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 07:59 Great year!! Many bands with superb albums. No cell phones, no internet, totally ignorant and in bliss. Having FM was a miracle. 1972 and prior, I only had AM. Got yelled at by a nun for sneaking a copy of The Exorcist book into school. Learned how to make gunpowder from Star Trek and an encyclopedea, got my first Penthouses and Playboys, had a benign brain tumor removed, trashed out a Honda motorcycle. The best of the '70s was yet to come.....HR, Ommadawn......you know the timeline. And wore dorky clothes from that same friggin' catalog.....oh yeah, bought winemaking equipment thru that catalog in 1973. But did not drink any till I was 15.(1976). Man you could get away with a lot back then, so much freedom. The 21st century is so.....confining. -------------- 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

Scatterplot Group: Members Posts: 1981 Joined: Dec. 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 08:06 Amendment: Not confining in some ways. You had to have some major bucks or connections to buy studio time or have things like multitracks back then. Now.....you can get HD multitracks and all else for peanuts. Synths, guitars.....much easier to acquire and even learn with internet lessons, tab, etc......Could not do that in 1973. -------------- 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

Ratty Group: Members Posts: 386 Joined: Jan. 2005 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 08:31 Quote (Dirk Star @ Mar. 31 2008, 10:37) Well in that same month of may 1973 my team won the FA cup final for the first time since 1937,and have won absolutely nothing since... Hey Dirk, guess what? My team lost the FA cup in 1973!! Well done to the Mackems, hope you stay up this season. I'd like to think we will be playing you again soon, but somehow i doubt we will be just yet. As for the clothes Sweatpea, i remember my checked flares with pockets on the side and ten buttons!!! Jeans with white piping down the side. I had a parker with the snorkel hood, complete with my chopper bike. Ooh and i remember getting the Evil Kenivel stunt bike set for christmas!! Who remembers the Baron Knights? Remember meeting them in the 70's. They were staying at our hotel in Skegness, they were great to me and my two brothers!! Eeeh those were the days!! -------------- Far away across the field The tolling of the iron bell Calls the faithful to their knees To hear the softly spoken magic spells Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 09:22 [quote=Ratty,Mar. 31 2008, 08:31][/quote] Quote Hey Dirk, guess what? My team lost the FA cup in 1973!! Well done to the Mackems, hope you stay up this season. I'd like to think we will be playing you again soon, but somehow i doubt we will be just yet. Well at least this time we`re making a fight of it,whilst poor old Derby County are having to suffer some of the same kind of misery we`ve had to in recent years.I thought Leeds were going to run away with that League One title for a while,despite those points you had knocked off.Nice to see you`re still getting the support down there though.Plus you managed to ship out that Wise fella` off to the scum..   Fantastic news all round in fact. Quote Ooh and i remember getting the Evil Kenivel stunt bike set for christmas!! Don`t know what year that Evil Knievel bike came out.But along with white crumbly dog shite that`s got to be one of most synonmous things I associate with the seventies.Think I`d be leaving one of those objects out of the time capsule though..   Evil Knievel`s Greatest Stunts Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 15:47 Quote (Scatterplot @ Mar. 31 2008, 07:59) Great year!! Many bands with superb albums. These are stuck in my memory: Tubular Bells Band on the Run Goodbye Yellow Brick Road 10cc Bette Midler American Graffiti For Your Pleasure Stranded These Foolish Things Parcel of Rogues I was only around five at the time, but I was always going through my brothers' record collection. I didn't really listen to the music much until some years later, but I do recall singing along to "I Love How You Love me" and thinking it was Fonzie on the cover of These Foolish Things. This was also the year of Frazetta's "Death Dealer" and the PBS documentary "An American Family". As for the clothing... being the youngest child in a large family of modest means, meant that I got stuck with hand-me-downs from my sisters, which were usually second-hand when they got them. So, more often than not, I didn't get to wear ''modern' fashions, but rather late sixties cast-offs. I think I once posted a photo from this time (give or take a year)... Here it is: -------------- "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

Ray Group: Members Posts: 857 Joined: Jan. 2000 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 17:36 I was 10, living in Hereford, riding horses a lot at Rimmel's Stables in Lugwardine.   Picking Apple in the summer for storage and picking Blackberrys for cash. Visiting Simmonds Yat Looking for bombs under the car (IRA) with a mirror Had a girlfriend called Rebecca who moved to Wrexham Listened to David Bowie, The Moody Blues and The Beach Boys on older brothers record player and HUGE LoudSpeaker. Remember Seeing T'Rex on Top of The Pops Remember Watching Joe 90. Remember stopping at a big train crash but not being allowed out of the car - not sure where this was but it was big news at the time Used to go shopping to Cheltenham and Gloucester, the bull ring in Birmingham and once Bristol Action men were the in toys - especially the deep sea diver versions.  And I think Etchasketch came out. Wow long time ago! Ray       -------------- Looking out over the harbour in Peel....... Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 18:32 In 1973 I was only 2 (as I was born in December '70) so I can't really remember anything. One thing, however, has stuck in my mind... that year my mom bought me my very first record... a children's song... and the next day I could sing it perfectly, word by word. And I was only 2. I still remember all the words to it to this day... -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Mar. 31 2008, 20:50 How could you forget Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon? Well,I wasn't even planned on 1973,ha ha! -------------- "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

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: April 01 2008, 05:21 Hey Sweetpea it`s a shame Mike did`nt release Tubular Bells in 1971.And then those rather fetching tartan trousers you`re sporting there may have reached down to your ankles.   Great photograph though.Here`s hoping you managed to outgrow that whole nailbiting thing you`ve got going on there..Tsk Tsk.. Well OK I was seven in 1973 and the eldest kid in our family.So unfortunatly I can offer no "hand me down" excuses for this abomination below..Apparently I`m wearing a tie with that shirt????Or should that be a shirt with that tie??What the hell were those fashion dudes thinking about?And I can offer no expanation as to why it looks like I`m about to break wind in that photograph.Maybe I`d just caught a glimpse of my own reflection for a moment? And of course 1973 was the year of Band On The Run which you mention there.I can remember my dad buying that album that year along with The Beatles blue compilation album 1967-70.Those are really the first two albums I can remember taking note of as a kid.I beat him to Tubular Bells though about 7 years later.And then he asked me to tape it for him after he`d heard it being played at a party.What the hell kind of party that was though I really hate to think.Can`t really imagine too many people strutting their funky middle aged stuff to ambient guitars.But hey stranger things have happened. For any Sci-Fi Movie types out there 1973 was also the year of Soylent Green(Mmmmmm! ) Westworld.And Woody Allen`s Sleeper. Back to top

The Caveman Group: Members Posts: 2178 Joined: Jan. 2008 Posted: April 02 2008, 09:10 I was surely born too late.1975 (the same month Mike started work on Ommamdawn).But my god i do wish i had been around.Band On The Run,Dark Side Of The Moon,Tubular Bells. Ok it was also when Glam Rock was bid.Did they have that in the US?You didn't miss much.  And i finally got an Evil Knieval stunt bike in 1984 after wanting one for years.  And Sweatpea.....nice pic and even nicer trousers.Aaaahhh. -------------- THE COMING OF THE GREAT WHITE HANDKERCHEIF IS NIGH. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: April 03 2008, 03:32 Quote (Dirk Star @ April 01 2008, 05:21) I can offer no "hand me down" excuses for this abomination below.. I'm actually sorta digging that shirt. The colors, at least. Must admit the pattern is eye-straining. Still, bell-bottoms came back, didn't they? Why not matching "magic eye" shirt & tie combos? -------------- "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

ommadawn,ah!ooh! Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: Mar. 2008 Posted: April 04 2008, 08:32 Coupla' things... How about narrowing down to your first knowledge of Mike? I was on hols in Bournemouth and recall standing at a bus stop with my Mum,reading the Daily Mail-bought for Peanuts on the back page.A feature spoke about this musician bloke who had made quite an impressive record on his ownio and Joe Public would do well to check it out(anyone have that article?)A few yards away was my first Argos-from which we purchased a travel alarm clock-you could actually hold the catalogue in them days without having to be a steroid-packing body-builder! I duly purchased said disc on rtn to Brum-still have it.I was 14,you'll try anything once at 14.If I'd known the money that musician bloke was going to cost me down the years...(sigh) Ah,but, you'm worth it Mikey Boy! Also-10cc Classic line-up (first 4). Mike Oldfield studio-wizardry with lyrics? Discuss... "Ah, the Seventies-"...continue in Charlton Heston voice from Waynes World 2 Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: April 27 2008, 15:55 1973 Plymouth Station Wagon -------------- "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

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: April 27 2008, 17:01 You know, I wish I were sat in that Plymouth right now with my Sears catalogue knitwear shirt and sympathetically matching flared strides, listening to Tubular Bells on the 8Track on the way to Saltburn by the Sea for a smashing day out, ice cream and a walk on the pier,aaaahhhhh. -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: April 27 2008, 17:15 Quote (The Big BellEnd @ April 27 2008, 17:01) You know, I wish I were sat in that Plymouth right now with my Sears catalogue knitwear shirt and sympathetically matching flared strides, listening to Tubular Bells on the 8Track on the way to Saltburn by the Sea for a smashing day out, ice cream and a walk on the pier,aaaahhhhh. I hope that old plymouth can makes it up that hacky big Saltburn bank on the coast there.A mate of mine got stuck halfway up a few years back in an old Escort diesel.He had to reverse back down and make a huge detour in the end,before he got home.Still if it does`nt make it I guess you could listen to tubular bells again on the journey back.       Back to top

The Big BellEnd Group: Members Posts: 971 Joined: Jan. 2004 Posted: April 27 2008, 18:03 I think TB would be worthy of a detour on most journey's -------------- I, ON THE OTHER HAND. AM A VICTIM OF YOUR CARNIVOUROUS LUNAR ACTIVITY. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: May 24 2008, 02:37 I don't know "Saltburn by the sea", but I recall some long car rides down the coast of Washington that would have been improved with some Tubularity. I've recalled that "Schoolhouse Rock" first aired in 1973, starting with "My Hero - Zero". -------------- "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

Gladstoner Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: May 2008 Posted: May 24 2008, 05:07 Quote (Sweetpea @ Mar. 31 2008, 02:25) ... people were wearing these clothes: Sears catalog Acid trips were a disaster for fashion. -------------- You don't find great music. It finds you. Back to top

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