Sideman's Corner

[dustyvalentino]

Just looked it up, Sam Hall and Always on My Mind.

Always on My Mind is such a good song that it's hard to mess it up. Nice production on this, with some distinctive Jerry Douglas licks. But Clapton's guitar tone is horrible, yeuch, should have spent longer moving microphones about.

His guitar parts in that song reminds me of MK Playing with his Les Paul at full.

Mmm. but I'm guessing it's on a strat? To my ears the distortion sounds brash and harsh, whereas MK on the LP sounds smooth and creamy (IMO).

[qjamesfloyd]

Ian Thomas played with Mike Oldfield at the live premier of Tubular Bells 2 at Edinburgh Castle in 1992 and was one the subsequent tour, videos are on YouTube, there is also a behind the scenes video recorded at Mike's house in LA where the band are rehearsing for the tour in which Ian is present. Another Oldfield connection is Matt Rollings who plays Piano and Hammond B-3 on Man on The Rocks. And on Mike's album Voyager, Seán Keane plays Fiddle and Liam O'Flynn plays Uilleann pipes.

[dustyvalentino]

Good stuff, thanks!