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Mike Chadwick Group: Members Posts: 231 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Aug. 31 2003, 09:39 Who is the man in expensive white shirt who is Master of ceremony in "The bell" and who sings and finaly destroys a nice sunburst Fender Stratocaster...he is a very funny guy.who is he and what is his name? -------------- kik-eze kik-eze Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Aug. 31 2003, 10:26 That's John Gordon Sinclair, a scottish comedy-actor. The guitar was pre-destroyed, though - that's the fun of guitars like that, undo a few screws and the whole thing comes apart Back to top

Mike Chadwick Group: Members Posts: 231 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Aug. 31 2003, 12:09 was this his last collaboration with MIke or was he singing on other TB2 live shows? ps.i watched TB2/3 dvd and i've noticed that the difficult vocal part in "altered state" sung originaly by Mike,here on Dvd singed by Scotish comedian was sounding exactly the same...was Mike using Playback for vocals??? (although he was singing Kikeze part) -------------- kik-eze kik-eze Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Aug. 31 2003, 15:10 The Piltdown Man voice is taped, yes. One of the original plans for the TBII show, which I read somewhere (I don't remember where) stated that the Piltdown Man was supposed "to mime his part on a special platform" or something like this. I think it's always been clear to Mike that the Piltdown Man vocals were impossible to perform live and thus they had to be played from a tape... like various other things from that performance. P.S. I don't think that the 'smashed' guitar is a real Fender Strat. It's very easy to make a fake guitar look like a Fender Strat and put the name 'Fender' on it. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Mike Chadwick Group: Members Posts: 231 Joined: May 2003 Posted: Sep. 01 2003, 03:10 i think Mike had enough cash to Buy this guy a Fender (-: Thanks for informations! -------------- kik-eze kik-eze Back to top

Brewer Group: Members Posts: 60 Joined: July 2002 Posted: Sep. 01 2003, 23:04 It was Gregory (from Gregory's Girl) or am i showing my age. It's worth a look if anyones interested. The movie also stared a very young Claire Grogan (Lead Singer with Altered Images) -------------- Maker of MOs favourite beverage No trees were harmed in the creation and sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced Back to top

Blue Dolphin Group: Members Posts: 1232 Joined: Nov. 1999 Posted: Sep. 02 2003, 11:41 Probably fake Fender guitar. Mike is not the type to buy an expensive guitar only for smashing. Only stupid people would do such a thing (and the music world contains lots of them). But the idea is typical english humour. Remember Knebworth concert? But Mike can throw with his own guitar if he's angry. Look on the TB II concert at his Strat, the scratches below. -------------- -The mark of a good musician is to play one note and mean it- Mike Oldfield - 1980 Back to top

Korgscrew Group: Super Admins Posts: 3511 Joined: Dec. 1999 Posted: Sep. 02 2003, 18:29 Well, the guitar doesn't sustain much, if any damage. The only time it might have is when he drops it onto the floor under the piano, and even then, it doesn't drop far - that wouldn't do much harm to a polyester finish...but actually, large headstock, metallic logo, that would be from somewhere between 65 and 67, so it wouldn't be a polyester finish...but enough about that, the wood actually looks like mahogany, so I'd imagine it's a copy with a veneered (probably plywood, maybe blockboard) body. It could be a Fender neck, perhaps it was even pieced together out of two broken guitars. It really doesn't matter, though Mike's strat's finished in nitrocellulose laquer - a much more delicate finish than the newer polyester, and so more easily damaged. The kind of rough handling a guitar might get while on tour could soon cause the kind of damage seen on Mike's. Back to top

BOOsTER Group: Musicians Posts: 1024 Joined: Jan. 2003 Posted: Sep. 03 2003, 10:02 Destroying a Fender Stratocaster? possibly it's impossible to think that a guy who says he loves guitars would let anyone destroy a real guitar while his show...so I hope it was a fake guitar...then it would be a big disapointment at least for me... -------------- http://www.djbooster.net Back to top

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