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YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« on: 07 December, 2017, 08:56:28 am »
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Who's on* 'reed & pipe organ'?











*No. 'What's on second' is something completely different
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #1 on: 07 December, 2017, 09:01:28 am »
Last week's choir practice was interrupted by some's phone, the ring tone being Tubular Bells. Ageing hippy...
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #2 on: 07 December, 2017, 09:11:36 am »
I miss my old Nokia phone - with a bit of patience and a modicum of musicality you could program in your own ring tones instead of having to buy them off some dodgy app.

(It took me several days to input the opening riff of Layla - ageing hippy that I'd like to be)
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #3 on: 07 December, 2017, 10:39:20 am »
I miss my old Nokia phone - with a bit of patience and a modicum of musicality you could program in your own ring tones instead of having to buy them off some dodgy app.


Yes, I remember programming Tubular Bells on mine! ;D

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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #4 on: 07 December, 2017, 11:05:29 am »
It's taken me a while to work out why I'm confused by this thread... Is this Tubular Bells or the Bonzo's 'Intro'?

I think it was at Deer Shed one year that I saw 'Tubular Bells for Two'. That was brilliant. http://www.tubularbellsfortwo.com/

Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #5 on: 07 December, 2017, 11:37:32 am »
It is the last bit of Tubular Bells, when the voice lists all the instruments, I assume?
My sisters and I were convinced that Dad was pulling our legs when he said something about the "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band". I think he had to go and dust off a record to convince us it really existed...

Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #6 on: 07 December, 2017, 11:43:23 am »
Two slightly distorted guitars.
Bobb?
We can wrap this up quickly  :demon:

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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #7 on: 07 December, 2017, 12:54:33 pm »
"Donald Trump on vibes.  Nice." 

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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #8 on: 07 December, 2017, 05:08:38 pm »
Two slightly distorted guitars.
Bobb?
We can wrap this up quickly  :demon:

That's the badger!

Mandolin.

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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #9 on: 07 December, 2017, 06:33:56 pm »
Two slightly distorted guitars.
Bobb?
We can wrap this up quickly  :demon:

That's the badger!

Mandolin.

Peter.
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #10 on: 07 December, 2017, 06:35:15 pm »
Here's the Intro and Outro (some of the younger people on YACF may wonder who the hell some of these people are) from Bonzo Dog

My particular favourites were General de Gaulle, Val Doonican (Hello there) and of course Roy Rogers on Trigger.


Hi there, nice to be with you, glad you could stick around.
Like to introduce `Legs' Larry Smith, drums
And Sam Spoons, rhythm pole
And Vernon Dudley Bohay-Nowell, bass guitar
And Neil Innes, piano.
Come in Rodney Slater on the saxophone
With Roger Ruskin Spear on tenor sax.
I, Vivian Stanshall, trumpet.
Say hello to big John Wayne, xylophone
And Robert Morley, guitar.
Billy Butlin, spoons.
And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes.
Nice!
Princess Anne on sousaphone.
Mmm.
Introducing Liberace, clarinet
With Garner "Ted" Armstrong on vocals.
[Jazzy scat singing]
Lord Snooty and his pals, tap dancing.
In the groove with Harold Wilson, violin
And Franklin McCormack on harmonica.
Over there, Eric Clapton, ukulele.
Hi Eric!
On my left Sir Kenneth Clark, bass sax.
A great honour, sir.
And specially flown in for us, the session's gorilla on vox humana.
Nice to see Incredible Shrinking Man on euphonium.
Drop out with Peter Scott on duck call.
Hearing from you later, Casanova on horn.
Yeah! Digging General de Gaulle on accordion.
Rather wild, General!
Thank you, sir.
Roy Rogers on Trigger.
Tune in Wild Man of Borneo on bongos.
Count Basie Orchestra on triangle.
[CBO:] (Ting!)
Thank you.
Great to hear the Rawlinsons on trombone.
Back from his recent operation, Dan Druff, harp.
And representing the flower people, Quasimodo on bells.
[Q:] Hooray!
Wonderful to hear Brainiac on banjo.
We welcome Val Doonican as himself.
[V:] Hullo there!
Very appealing, Max Jaffa.
Mmm, that's nice, Max!
What a team, Zebra Kid and Horace Batchelor on percussion.
A great favourite (and a wonderful performer) of all of us here, J. Arthur Rank, on gong


Edit: I missed the last few words of the last line - and there's a gong sound effect to finish.

Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #11 on: 07 December, 2017, 06:43:33 pm »
For years I have wondered what PaulR's post containing
"And looking very relaxed, Adolf Hitler on vibes.
Nice!"
On a totally unrelated thread, was about.
Now I know.

Thank you.

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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #12 on: 07 December, 2017, 08:22:42 pm »
I discovered the other week that the ukelele part was indeed played by Eric Clapton.
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #13 on: 08 December, 2017, 12:33:50 am »
It is the last bit of Tubular Bells, when the voice lists all the instruments, I assume?
My sisters and I were convinced that Dad was pulling our legs when he said something about the "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band". I think he had to go and dust off a record to convince us it really existed...

Neighbours have a dog called Mongo. We occasionally walk him.
I’m waiting for the opportunity to ask for the Mongo Dog Doo Dah Bags.
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #14 on: 08 December, 2017, 08:02:05 am »
In about 1969/70 Bonzo Dog had a shop just off Portobello Road - no idea what they sold - which had an enormous (probably 6' high) gold nose sticking out of the wall at first floor level.  I used to go in the cafe next door with one of my customers and some of the band used to come in from time to time for a cup of tea.

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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #15 on: 08 December, 2017, 09:40:40 am »
I discovered the other week that the ukelele part was indeed played by Eric Clapton.

And here I was, looking to revive my ukulele career.  Bloody Clapton again, hasn't he got enough to do with the guitar?
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Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #16 on: 08 December, 2017, 10:50:59 am »
It is the last bit of Tubular Bells, when the voice lists all the instruments, I assume?
My sisters and I were convinced that Dad was pulling our legs when he said something about the "Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band". I think he had to go and dust off a record to convince us it really existed...

Neighbours have a dog called Mongo. We occasionally walk him.
I’m waiting for the opportunity to ask for the Mongo Dog Doo Dah Bags.

Truly terrible - and duly stolen. :)

Re: YACF Virtual Tubular Bells
« Reply #17 on: 08 December, 2017, 11:10:36 am »
We appear to have missed out an awful lot so far.  Anyway, after mandolin (and taking this too seriously) it goes:

"Spanish guitar and introducing acoustic guitar"

Which is the set-up for the denouement....