I called this post "Bells (Part II)" although it really doesn't have much to do with part one; still, it's about a bell and what's a guy supposed to do?
Anyway, this past week I have seen the Grammy Awards logo quite a bit...
And, like the Super Bowl and other venues, they use a different one every year. But cutting to the chase, after looking at these logos like a million times, I suddenly see a bell:
Of course I'm finding out that the shape of a bell is called ....get this... a bell - on all objects; for example, the trumpet and other horn instruments:
Now, I realize this is not earth-shattering news and probably most of you knew this; however, I hate brass instruments and have always avoided them.
Still, it occurs to me that trumpets are used a great deal in the broadcasting the arrival of royalty; even Christ's return will be with the sound of the trumpet. All of this makes Bob Schlenker's posts about bells [
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2] seem even more important to me.
I had the same idea about bells some days ago when I began wondering why I had put a live presentation of Michael Oldfield's Tubular Bells on my YT channel.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSRJvq4Wd48&list=PL605006A26274230B&index=4&feature=plpp_video
Besides it being awesome I checked the "Tubular Bells" album's Wikipedia site and stumbled over this:
"Bell-ringing events
On 6 June at 6pm (a reference to 666) there was a worldwide bell-ringing event; bells were rung in Milan (on MTV), Berlin (Siegessäule), Brussels (Atomium), Paris (the George Pompidou centre), Sydney (Opera House), Japan/Narita (at a Japanese Temple) and London. Official footage has been shown on a YouTube video, linked from Oldfield's website.
One of the events in London was at the British Music Experience at The O2. It featured the 29 piece Handbell Ringers of Great Britain and an Orbular Bells DJ set by The Orb. There was also bell-ringing workshops and competitions. The Orb had previously remixed "Sentinel" from Tubular Bells II."
That was 2009.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells
It further says:
"The premiere live performance of Tubular Bells was at the Queen Elizabeth Hall at 7:45pm 25 June 1973."
On the Wikipedia page of "Tubular Bells III" it says:
"On September 4, 1998, six years to the day after the premiere of Tubular Bells II at Edinburgh Castle, Oldfield held a premiere concert for Tubular Bells III at Horse Guards Parade in London."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tubular_Bells_III
And the shape of the disformed tubular bell on the album cover reminds me very much of the symbol on Madonna's throne which I connected to the "Whitney umbrella" shape.
Is Mike Oldfield ringing the bells/blowing the trumpets of the Apocalypse?
Namaste,
Deckard666
Great stuff... I'm going to post about this! Thanks as always.
ReplyDeleteExcellent find Deckard666, and nice post Jeff,
ReplyDeleteanother Grammy and bell connection:
"n 1898, three years after Nipper’s death, Francis painted a picture based on a photograph of Nipper listening intently to a wind-up Edison-Bell cylinder phonograph. In the painting, Francis substituted a disc gramophone for the phonograph shown in the earlier photograph. On February 11, 1899, Francis filed an application for copyright of his picture “Dog Looking At and Listening to a Phonograph.” Thinking the Edison-Bell Company might find it useful, he presented it to James E. Hough who, in a move that would eventually result in Edison exiting the record business altogether, promptly said, “Dogs don’t listen to phonographs.”