{"id":239,"date":"2015-12-30T11:31:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-30T15:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/?p=239"},"modified":"2015-12-30T12:15:13","modified_gmt":"2015-12-30T16:15:13","slug":"tubular-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2015\/12\/tubular-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Tubular 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a cover of Mike Oldfield&#8217;s <em>Tubular Bells<\/em>, but rather some new tapestries draped around the original signature piano riff (which riff I have flipped front-to-back, kind of, just to be contrary).  This is my third version of this, using mostly the same performance data. First there was a perfectly good version in 1996 using the old Mac-based studio setup; then I redid it in 2004, which was quite different-sounding; and now this version, also quite different instrumentation.  I guess when it comes to one guy building up individual musical parts to create an intricate web of interlocking sound, Tubular Bells is an understandable and appropriate obsession.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry if you see ads on this&#8230; I got a notice that ads may appear because of copyrighted content&#8230; I&#8217;m not getting any ad revenue, I do not have monetization turned on&#8230; I hope some of that revenue finds its way to the original composer&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b4wuHqN4F7E\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Also of note: this is the first of my interpretations to actually feature the titular tubular bells.<\/p>\n<p>Background video courtesy of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zfootage.com\" target=\"_blank\">zfootage.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>YouTube link: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b4wuHqN4F7E\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/b4wuHqN4F7E<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not so much a cover of Mike Oldfield&#8217;s Tubular Bells, but rather some new tapestries draped around the original signature piano riff (which riff I have flipped front-to-back, kind of, just to be contrary). This is my third version of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/2015\/12\/tubular-2015\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rgdaniel.com\/gravitas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}