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Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 19 2005, 18:41 Who sings the choir in "Rite of Man" ? Is it Mike Oldfield, Mike Oldfield, Mike Oldfield and Mike Oldfield? Or, more probably, is there someone else singing? One of the voices sounds to me vaguely like David Bedford in his Don Alfonso incarnation , but this may be, as usual, because of my cloth ears. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Feb. 19 2005, 23:16 Jeremy Parker,Mike's PA,is credited as co-writer of the song,dunno if he had the chance to sing back vocals on that *silly* tune. -------------- "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

EeToN Group: Members Posts: 845 Joined: Sep. 2001 Posted: Feb. 20 2005, 10:14 According to Hibernaculum it's Mike, Jeremy Parker, Simon Phillips and Pierre Moerlin. Anyway, I like that song. -------------- If I were music, I would be Enigmatism. Back to top

Ugo Group: Members Posts: 5495 Joined: April 2000 Posted: Feb. 20 2005, 18:12 Thank u EeToN. I like it too. -------------- Ugo C. - a devoted Amarokian Back to top

Tati The Sentinel Group: Members Posts: 3360 Joined: Feb. 2002 Posted: Feb. 20 2005, 20:08 Thanks for the info about the other guys singing on the song! -------------- "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

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 07:45 I thought he got the locals at the dog to do it -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 08:26 The dog? Ah. "The Rite of Man's Best Friend". I'll put that one on my "Rarities Wanted" list, after "The Rite of Aimee Mann", "In the Poo", "The Elton John Wedding Anthem", and the M.C. Larry Flynt version of "The Bell". -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 08:33 hehehe Do they have 'dogs' in America? Meaning Pubs/Inns of course   All I know is that there are a heck of alot of coffee bars etc....... -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 08:35 That's a new meaning of "dog" to me! I think that word now has about 20 meanings other than the usual bow-wow. Quick trivia question: does the word appear in Oldfield lyrics? I can't think of any occurances right now. -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

Piltdownboy on horseback 22 Group: Members Posts: 1548 Joined: Sep. 2005 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 13:12 Quote (hiawatha @ Feb. 14 2006, 08:35) Quick trivia question: does the word appear in Oldfield lyrics? I can't think of any occurances right now. It does in the title: The DOGe's Palace   Doesn't really count though... Doggy went a-courting??? When the dog's on fire??? Poison dogs??? Orabidog??? Tears of a dog??? Ommadog??? -------------- "And now we're going to play Platinum!" Back to top

larstangmark Group: Members Posts: 1767 Joined: Mar. 2005 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 13:51 Afghan!   + there's something that sounds like a dog towards the end of Poising Arrows. There's a dog on the HR sleeve and a surrealist/naivist-style cartoon dog on Five Miles Out. So I guess there's a plenty of dogs but the words is never mentioned. Am I right? I'm not familiar with the spoken phrases scattered all over the Millenium Bell, so I'm not sure. Also, I seem to remember a line that went "treat me like a dog" from Shadow on the Wall, but it wasn't there when i checked. -------------- "There are twelve people in the world, the rest are paste" Mark E Smith Back to top

hiawatha Group: Members Posts: 2391 Joined: Mar. 2004 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 13:58 Quote (larstangmark @ Feb. 14 2006, 13:51) Afghan!   + there's something that sounds like a dog towards the end of Poising Arrows. There's a dog on the HR sleeve and a surrealist/naivist-style cartoon dog on Five Miles Out. So I guess there's a plenty of dogs but the words is never mentioned. Am I right? I'm not familiar with the spoken phrases scattered all over the Millenium Bell, so I'm not sure. Also, I seem to remember a line that went "treat me like a dog" from Shadow on the Wall, but it wasn't there when i checked. There is also the "Bootleg Chorus" on Piltdown man (Bootleg being the dog in the HR cover). There is also one entire dog of an album: "Amarok" after the Innuit "Amaroq" (wolf) word. There's even wolf howls in it. Stretching things a lot further, we have: "Tubular Bones" "Hergest .Rhodesian RIDGEback" "Incoonhoundtations" "Expooched" "Hairborn" "Five Miles Howl" "Earth Digging" "The Keeshonds of Distant Earth" "Tr3s Labradors" and for the French: "Light and Chein" Are you dead doggy? Don't think so -------------- "In the land of the Dacotahs, Where the Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak-trees, Laugh and leap into the valley." - Song of Hiawatha Back to top

The Bell(end) Group: Members Posts: 1051 Joined: July 2005 Posted: Feb. 14 2006, 14:48 AB FAB Expooched cover =   Track(s) inspired by his dog(s) are welcome for the next album   How off topic can ya get eh? -------------- When the night's on fi-ya, do you need love's arms to hold yew? :D Back to top

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