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Gladstoner Group: Members Posts: 46 Joined: May 2008 Posted: May 24 2008, 04:25 So we have: Tubular Bells Tubular Bells II Tubular Bells III The Millennium Bell Tubular Bells 2003 * What's next? Tubular Bells XP Tubular Bells Vista Tubular Bells 7 * Note: TB 2003 is a patch to fix problems with TB. -------------- You don't find great music. It finds you. Back to top

Dirk Star Group: Members Posts: 1331 Joined: Sep. 2007 Posted: May 24 2008, 09:57 Quote (Gladstoner @ May 24 2008, 09:25) Quote * Note: TB 2003 is a patch to fix problems with TB. Yeah beware service pack four imo... Continuing on a kind of Bill Gates type theme I guess.How about a kind of inter-active version of Tubular Bells?You know purely just a musical thing though and not related to Mike`s games projects.I`m thinking along the lines of Mike`s UMix experiment on L&S,except a lot more accessible and adventerous than that.You could maybe download guitar parts etc from diferent people.And kind of make up your own mix of Tubular Bells using Mike`s basic template as the backdrop.Except you would have access to every track from the original master-tapes.So you could shuffle stuff around,or make your own re-mixes completely seperate from the whole etc.You know they should make the whole software so Joe Average could use it with consumate ease is what I`m driving at.And no holding back as well,get lots of effects and generators on there so you could change the whole sound of stuff if you wanted to.I`m sure there would be a fair few Frankenstein`s Tubular Monsters as a result of that.But that would kind of be part of the whole fun of it as well. Would be quite a cool thing to do for a 40th anniversary or something I feel.And would kind of be in keeping with some of Mike`s more unique and groundbreaking experiments he has tried in the past. Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: May 26 2008, 00:12 They could do it the video game way: Tubular Bells: TURBO EXTREME Tubular Carnage Tubular Party Final Tubular Bells Final Tubular Bells XII Ninja Bells Super Tubular Fight BATTLE BELLS Bells of Rage Tubular Takedown! Grand Tubular Master (I'm not too proud to say... I did get some ideas from the Video Game Name Generator) -------------- "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

Sir Mustapha Group: Musicians Posts: 2802 Joined: April 2003 Posted: May 26 2008, 11:46 For that list to be complete, you'd need about 10 titles beginning with "space". - Space Tubes - Space Bells - Space Tube Bells - Space Bell Tubes - etc. -------------- Check out http://ferniecanto.com.br for all my music, including my latest albums: Don't Stay in the City, Making Amends and Builders of Worlds. Also check my Bandcamp page: http://ferniecanto.bandcamp.com Back to top

Bassman Group: Members Posts: 548 Joined: Feb. 2008 Posted: May 26 2008, 23:04 Tubular Pi. Back to top

ProjectZ Group: Members Posts: 243 Joined: July 2002 Posted: May 27 2008, 01:25 I've heard Mike will be recording an album-trilogy, called "The Lord of the Bells"... The 3 albums will be : 1) The Fellowship of the Oldfield 2) The Two Mikes 3) The Return of the Oldfield -------------- the VANGELIS forum : Invisible Connections ( http://www.vangelis.fr/ ) Back to top

Sweetpea Group: Members Posts: 1476 Joined: April 2007 Posted: May 27 2008, 01:49 Quote (ProjectZ @ May 27 2008, 01:25) I've heard Mike will be recording an album-trilogy, called "The Lord of the Bells"... The 3 albums will be : 1) The Fellowship of the Oldfield 2) The Two Mikes 3) The Return of the Oldfield To be followed by: 4. The Tubular Appendices to include "The Line of the House of Bells", "The Tale of Tubular Years" (a chronology of the First, Second, and Third Tubular Ages), and "Pronunciation of Words and Names in Sheba-ese". 5. The Sentinelrillion Oh gawd, I'm a nerd. ETA: Errr...  I guess that should be "Piltdown-ese" since "Sheba" wasn't even in TB. -------------- "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 27 2008, 02:03 Tubular Bells XLVII: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnQMq5wtZcg Mike runs out of ideas.... -------------- You don't find great music. It finds you. Back to top

ProjectZ Group: Members Posts: 243 Joined: July 2002 Posted: May 27 2008, 05:35 Mike is also considering "Bell Wars" as a new project... This project consists of 2 trilogies... First will parts 4 to 6 be released : Bell Wars IV : A New Bell Bell Wars V : Richard Branson Strikes Back Bell Wars VI : The Return of The Oldfield About 20 years later this will be followed by parts 1 to 3 : Bell Wars I : The Phantom Bell Bell Wars II : The Attack of the CloneBells Bell Wars III : The Revenge of The Branson -------------- the VANGELIS forum : Invisible Connections ( http://www.vangelis.fr/ ) Back to top

Matt Group: Admins Posts: 1186 Joined: Nov. 2002 Posted: May 27 2008, 05:55 No, he wants to go back to videogames again. Currently working on the following projects: Wii Bells - use your Wii-mote to hit those bells in time to the music. An easter egg in the game allows you to also use the wii balance board to simulate waving your lighter in the air to live footage of The Millenium Bell (I saw the packaging, it has a warning about not burning your ceiling...) Hells Bells for PS3 - a follow-on to the exorcist theme where you hit possessed zombies over the head with long thin metal tubes And a PC/Xbox 360 strategy title called Tubular Sells where you try and take over record shops selling punk music. -------------- "I say I say I say I say, what's got three bottles and five eyes and no legs and two wheels" Back to top

Tayniee Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: April 2008 Posted: May 27 2008, 06:38 I tend to leave well alone of these kind of threads, a bit flummoxing and too 'clever' for me with the puns and play on words.... But Matt you've captured my imagination there with your Hells Bells etc, and your attention to detail and specifics of the workings along side. I'm intrigued, like I was with Dick Van Dike and his inventions on Chitty Chitty Bang Bang...     -------------- As we all know, endings are just beginnings. Back to top

ex member 419 Group: Members Posts: 1177 Joined: April 2008 Posted: May 28 2008, 21:48 How did you become so cynical? Have a mental health day and listen to Music of the Spheres, Voyager and QE2. You will soon feel happy, relaxed and mellow without having to reach for a beer or a reefer. Please take this message lightly. It is not meant as criticism, Cheers Back to top

Tayniee Group: Members Posts: 132 Joined: April 2008 Posted: May 29 2008, 02:18 Oh ek I see what you mean, that can come across as a bit cynical. I was meaning that I love Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and the invention Stuff.   Great music score and scariest villain too.   -------------- As we all know, endings are just beginnings. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: May 29 2008, 18:34 Off topic again... sorry... @ Tayniee: forgive my ignorance, but what is Chitty Chitty Bang Bang? Seeing that you mentioned Dick Van Dyke, it sounds like it is a (Disney?) movie. Is it? @ ProjectZ & Sweetpea: quite some time ago, Tim Highfield wrote a Mike-styled (but unfortunately short-lived) LOTR parody called "Lord of the Bells" somewhere here in the tubular.net forums. I can't find it anymore, though... maybe it's been deleted...   -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Inkanta Group: Admins Posts: 1453 Joined: Feb. 2000 Posted: May 29 2008, 22:20 Quote (ProjectZ @ May 27 2008, 04:35) Mike is also considering "Bell Wars" as a new project... This project consists of 2 trilogies... First will parts 4 to 6 be released : Bell Wars IV : A New Bell Bell Wars V : Richard Branson Strikes Back Bell Wars VI : The Return of The Oldfield About 20 years later this will be followed by parts 1 to 3 : Bell Wars I : The Phantom Bell Bell Wars II : The Attack of the CloneBells Bell Wars III : The Revenge of The Branson And at what point does the expiring Branson confess, "Mike. I am your father."  ??  Actually, I've just had a vision of tubular bell lightsabres.  Ooooh....neon ones. Maybe green and red lawn ones for Yule. Not to mention RB and MO dolls. Maybe they could be kitsch, i.e., pull a string and they say something.  (-; What would Mike say? "You know I don't like why questions." Among other things. -------------- "No such thing as destiny; only choices exist." From:  Moongarden's "Solaris." Back to top

Bleat Group: Members Posts: 97 Joined: June 2006 Posted: June 01 2008, 11:47 I think Mike should start making Tubular Bells anagram albums: Subtle All Rub Balls Lute Rub Able Blur Lust and the classic "Bare Bull Slut" 2008 remix album Peace, Bleat. Back to top

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