I engineered this Album with Bill in Yorkshire and it was a massive privilege to learn my trade in the studio with such a genius. It was guitar heaven ;~} It still sounds as fresh today. I remember the studio was full of Marimbas, vintage synths, a casio VL-Tone! digital drum pads, and some classic outboard gear owned by Bill. After this Album we built the Echo Observatory at Bill's house.

@scentdesigner1

6 жыл бұрын

Nice experience to work with Bill;-)

@robertdavidson9393

4 жыл бұрын

Pretty cool do tell more whenever!

@CountessMCollabs

4 жыл бұрын

Leon BigEars he is most definitely an underrated genius and legend!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Love the acoustics on the making of this brilliant album 👍

@rachelar

2 жыл бұрын

I think the echo observatory was going beforehand tho perhaps you reequipped it when he moved

@johnagar7610

Жыл бұрын

@@rachelar Was originally In house in Selby

This is heaven, Bill is still is a sounds landscape in my Home. I live in the hill and in the morning i put this on and i look down the valley and see the castle and I have latte in my hand and a Punch. This is Life for a old nelson fan in the Mestni Hill Skål ta mig fan and be happy

This is top notch material from without a doubt the most talented guitarist and song writer ever, so under appreciated

wish this was on Spotify 😢

I'm nearly 60 and still get excited by Bill's music.....I think that is saying something in this throw away age.

The man is unique and the track phenomenal! Been following him for more than 30 years now and still totally inspirational.

One of the select few songs that literally kept me alive during some of my bleakest moments. Thank you Bill.

Life is fantastic...48 yo, a life spent to love, know, discover music - from classical to experimental, from jazz to metal, from everything to everything - music in every hidden corner, and just TODAY I discovered B. Nelson. I love this music! Another gentle genius like Foxx or Sylvian, but here in Italy absolutely unknown... Life is fantastic! And this art is... For the next days, my heart and my ears are busy...

@crieverytim

5 жыл бұрын

Check out Gazelle Twin - Hobby Horse

@PatrickGalbraith

4 жыл бұрын

me too! Isn't it amazing that people complain about how terrible things are when, in fact, we live in the best times ever. I used to play bass and last night wanted to see some things about fretless bass playing-- there are hundreds of videos showing you how to play, what you can do with it by renowned artists! I would have thought I died and went to heaven as a teen if I had walked into now.

Easily one of the best albums to come out of the eighties.

I'm listening to this in Cairo.

This was the first song I ever heard by this amazing artist. I got the cassette "On a Blue Wing" (I'm in the US so no Holy Ghost titles allowed...) and just loved everything on the album. That discovery led to to explore his Be Bop Deluxe records, his debut acoustic album, and a number of his Cocteau Records releases. I was so happy to finally get a CD copy of "Getting the Holy Ghost Across" when he had a limited re-release of this album. Bill is one of my all-time favorite guitarists/singers/songwriters/producers/etc.

@IanHarrisonGB

4 жыл бұрын

Similar story here, I just started one album earlier with "The Love That Whirls".

@memelordmark7532

3 жыл бұрын

Another similar story. I'd listened to a little bit of Bebop Deluxe but didn't know anything about the band. The record store I worked in got several boxes of On a Blue Wing upon it's release. So we opened a copy fore the 'Now Playing' bin and dropped it onto the turntable. We all bought copies for our personal collections at the end of the day. Insanely good Lp.

This is so good it's just insane.

I cannot even begin to guess at how many times l played these two opening tracks segued together. They were fantastic then & still are. So good to hear them again.

I remember when i find this album in London, That time i was working for Virgin record. All night in Bray we was sitting and listen to all BBD and Nelson album. He is a genius.

vividly recall bill at the savoy in nyc playing this song and blowing the fucking house apart. genius does not aptly describe him!

I've always felt that Bill Nelson was a genius, and this was one of my absolute favorites from him. Stunningly beautiful.

One of my favourite Bill Nelson tracks.

Fantasik! I am ever a Bill Nelson Fan.. I recorded this on Reel to reel.. sounded soo warm and.. gooey.. the bass resonated..

THE SOUND OF (GENIUS BILL NELSON) MUSIC, THE WARMTH IN WOMENS' EYES,

One of my favorite 80's tunes and one of my favorites from Bill. So wonderfully 80's but with Bill's twist.

True art lyrically, conceptually and musically.

He was and still is one ☝️ of my favorite composers and this track is one ☝️ of his very best❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Love this album and Chimera and the Love that Whirls..can still sing every song word by word....

@ricmac954

2 жыл бұрын

Surely "Word for Word"! 😊 (A song from Bill's re-release of "Getting the Holy Ghost Across")

One of Bill's best tunes and there are oh so many.

I worked in a record store in Georgia all during highschool...I remember falling in love with this album ON A BLUE WING. Every single song....but Suvasini is MAGICAL. I had the cassette and my piece of shit car tape player ate the cassette 😫😭😫😭

I remember when I found a article about Bills Red Noice in a italian architect magazine in my first job, I was thinking, Im not a lone :-)

wow~ I never heard of this great musician before~ time to explore his music

@92bluestrat

8 жыл бұрын

+Rose Czyrny ... to get to know his early work, get the album BeBop Deluxe .. "Live! In The Air Age". best live recorded album of all time

@manikpop

8 жыл бұрын

Good choice! Then maybe "Sunburst Finish."

@perfredlund

4 жыл бұрын

I think you may never have heard "Peter Gabriel Plays Live"... 😣

The acoustic guitar at the beginning reminds me of Bill's work on Sylvian's 'Gone to Earth'.

Can't leave this album alone. It has to be on at home at least once a day.

a welcome blast from the past💕

I remember listening to this on a very old second hand personal cassette recorder on the way to my university class. Not sure what I made of it at the time, but I liked it. Listening to Kate Bush, Sylvian and Bill Nelson. I thought I had an old taste in music, but I guess it was just good taste!

@christoph7395

2 жыл бұрын

How on earth did you come across this?

@eveningstar1968

2 жыл бұрын

@@christoph7395 I got into bill Nelson as he featured heavily on David Sylvian’s Gone to Earth album.

@christoph7395

2 жыл бұрын

@@eveningstar1968 Oh right. Thanks. Who's David Sylvian? I've not heard of any of these people until this moment.

Brilliant. Makes the hairs on my neck stand up.

i remember having this album on cassette , at the time I wasnt over impressed , looking back I see my younger self was very wrong .

No Trains scheduled for Heaven so I got off here.

this is soon beautiful have been trying to get the cd for years

@IanHarrisonGB

3 жыл бұрын

Look on Discogs.com, two versions one can be had for about £5 and one for about £10.

4 years ago, I stumbled across this song while pulling an all nighter to get an animation project done.

i'm a man in trance!!

Bill was the GENESIS OF SO MUCH back then! Big fan! 👍🖖

This is my favorite Nelson album. I've heard about 86% of these. I bought this vinyl in 86 and in the 90s as a cd, in the 2000s as mp3, and 4 years ago as the chock full of songs meta double album it had become. It's a sham we can't get the whole bundle.

I had this on cassette in the 1980w still do and have the album but later ots a really good album one I still love!I'm pretty sure I bought it when visiting the USA Buffalo..It was called on a Blue Wing and later learned it was a title changed from this one ..

@IanHarrisonGB

3 жыл бұрын

The Americans couldn't handle the "religious" implication of the UK name, I suppose.

@robdavidson1876

3 жыл бұрын

Ya seems hes some gnostic influences!

1984 Detroit St. Andrews Hall............Exquisite )(

Absolutely amazing, haven't heard this in years. It seems to be completely impossible to find digitally or even on CD these days... :(

@dickiedosh I shook Bill's hand after a gig in Windsor and told him I had thought he was a genius for over 27 years and thanks very much for proving me right tonight....

Such layers of instrumentation.

Nelson has many strings to his e-bow

sounds like we know where bono found his muse. great music and thanks for sharing

@bigearsism Well done on your work. I used to work in a hi-fi shop and Contemplation was my fave demo track as it has and does it all. Every sound becomes a sign indeed.

Legend!!!!!!!

Still sounds great,

@jean7774

3 жыл бұрын

It is timeless

Great

I bet this would sound incredible on a top of the range 80's hi-fi setup

@DadgeCity

2 жыл бұрын

My hifi was/is mid-range (NAD) but it sounds great!

ART!

So beautiful

This was re-released on CD iin 2006 and is easily available on ebay etc.

@dickiedosh ....in a world like ours,every sound becomes a sign.........

i made a mix tape, on the end of side b, i had second to last: as the world falls down, bowie. and then this track by Bill Nelson. what a great vibe

I begged my grandfather for a marimba when I was getting into Bill Nelson solo artist, I was 15 years old and my grandpa was the MAN in the music department at Pomona Colleges. He quickly broke down the reponsibilities of owning the instrument. I then enquired about a harp like the one Harpo Marx had.

@christoph7395

2 жыл бұрын

Good lord.

By far my favourite, and a go to toon

My favorite Bill Neson song

Divine Music !!!

adore++++

THIS sorta almost makes me want to believe..

Post Chamber of Dreams era!!

Its Bono´s favorit guitar player;-)

@stevengray2784

5 жыл бұрын

Also Prince's favourite guitar player. Purple Rain is so Bill Nelson

@PM-ec5vm

3 жыл бұрын

Prince .... who is also a ‘Nelson’ 🤔

For bigearsism . Did you listen to the original version of Contemplation that was on a 45 and is there any way to get it ????? William

I used to listen to this all the time and one time it was snowing and I got into a bad car accident..but I still like the song. Bebop Deluxe was great

although... :-) it could actually be Bill himself! He played bass on most Chimera tracks it seems, and there's a similarity

Is this album still available, getting the Holy Ghost across ? :)

Bill Nelson is one of my favorite guitarists and he has had a huge influence on my playing. I need to catch up with his newer recording efforts. I'm familiar with this song from one of his earlier albums. Was it with Red Noise his post Be Bop Deluxe project?

@garyrutland1119

5 жыл бұрын

No Sinner it's not. Red Noise was a one-off album released in'79 and this is from 86. Fairly certain Bill plays everything on this track genius that he is. Hope that helps.

@sinnertrain7405

5 жыл бұрын

Okay, thanks, that's helpful.

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