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The three mentioned artists have a few things in commen.
1) They have all done Soundtracks at one point in their careers.
2) I love all of them.
3) They have all used Jon Anderson, a great vocalist and a former co-founder of "Yes" Prog-Rock band.
Jon Anderson
Are there any members of GTP who have a great fondness for any of these artists? I was listerning to "Crisis" By Mike Oldfield today and the song "In High Places" to be exact sparked this thread. Ive always liked Mike Oldfield since I was a kid, my parents would play "crisis" and the best of Mike Oldfield on LP when I was young. Now this is going to spark some controversy but im not a huge fan of "Tubular Bells" In fact Ive only got "TB 1" and hardley lister to it, for me his best stuff was "The Killing Fields" soundtrack and "crisis".
Mike Oldfield
Again like Oldfield, I discovered Vangelis when I was young, My dad had an album called "Albedo 0.39" and from that album and the "Blade Runner" soundtrack My affinity for Vangelis was born, Im a big fan of electronic music, but Vangelis takes all that and more to extremes that only he can do.
Vangelis
Kitaro Un-like the other two, came to me in later life, when I was about 19 - 20 years of age, and by accident too! I had never heard of him before, but I was at a store in Leeds city centre and I happend to buy a job lot of albums for 50p each, all with partial or no covers / booklets / backs, and one happend to be a copelation album of Kitaro, I wasnt sure (never hearing of him before) what type of music it was going to be, by looking at the case cover (yes it had one and the booklet
) I had a thought of it could be Traditional Japanese Music, but in no way had I expected it to be electronic in type, very similar to Vangelis, but with a few more traditional insturuments and traditional style and forms.
Kitaro
Now listerning to this album I recognised Jon Andersons voice on one of the tracks, this lead me to go back over other albums, having heard his voice in previous songs, but never searching out the singer. To my suprise he was on some of my other albums and I realised that I was becoming a fan of his unique vocal tallents, so asking my dad who he was, I was gifted the knowlage that He was the singer from a prog-rock band "Yes" of which my dad was a big fan, never really hearing any of there stuff (or just not paying attention when It was played) I looked through my dads big collection of LP's and found one or two albums from the band, after giving them a listern I can say that I like "Yes" and Jon Anderson.
1) They have all done Soundtracks at one point in their careers.
2) I love all of them.
3) They have all used Jon Anderson, a great vocalist and a former co-founder of "Yes" Prog-Rock band.
Jon Anderson
Are there any members of GTP who have a great fondness for any of these artists? I was listerning to "Crisis" By Mike Oldfield today and the song "In High Places" to be exact sparked this thread. Ive always liked Mike Oldfield since I was a kid, my parents would play "crisis" and the best of Mike Oldfield on LP when I was young. Now this is going to spark some controversy but im not a huge fan of "Tubular Bells" In fact Ive only got "TB 1" and hardley lister to it, for me his best stuff was "The Killing Fields" soundtrack and "crisis".
Mike Oldfield
Again like Oldfield, I discovered Vangelis when I was young, My dad had an album called "Albedo 0.39" and from that album and the "Blade Runner" soundtrack My affinity for Vangelis was born, Im a big fan of electronic music, but Vangelis takes all that and more to extremes that only he can do.
Vangelis
Kitaro Un-like the other two, came to me in later life, when I was about 19 - 20 years of age, and by accident too! I had never heard of him before, but I was at a store in Leeds city centre and I happend to buy a job lot of albums for 50p each, all with partial or no covers / booklets / backs, and one happend to be a copelation album of Kitaro, I wasnt sure (never hearing of him before) what type of music it was going to be, by looking at the case cover (yes it had one and the booklet
) I had a thought of it could be Traditional Japanese Music, but in no way had I expected it to be electronic in type, very similar to Vangelis, but with a few more traditional insturuments and traditional style and forms.
Kitaro
Now listerning to this album I recognised Jon Andersons voice on one of the tracks, this lead me to go back over other albums, having heard his voice in previous songs, but never searching out the singer. To my suprise he was on some of my other albums and I realised that I was becoming a fan of his unique vocal tallents, so asking my dad who he was, I was gifted the knowlage that He was the singer from a prog-rock band "Yes" of which my dad was a big fan, never really hearing any of there stuff (or just not paying attention when It was played) I looked through my dads big collection of LP's and found one or two albums from the band, after giving them a listern I can say that I like "Yes" and Jon Anderson.
will change the offending word 
) My old workmate was a big fan of Tomita and Wendy/Walter Carlos (of 'Clockwork Orange/The Shining' fame) too, and I've heard a bit of Tomita now, which I've been very impressed by....
