On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:53 PM, David Jacques wrote:
Ahhh.. you just don’t like him because he won’t sell those Mark II’s that are trashed beyond belief!!!! They used the one with the side handles at West Palm Beach…. I remember that…
I met Robert Fripp in Montreal in 1973. He was on his way into the CHOM studios with Ian Wallace and Peter Sinfield. I stopped to ask him about the mellotrons he'd used the evening before in a concert I attended (not having seen a 400 in the flesh before). He offered to sell me one of the two MkIIs he had for $3000. He even offered to bring it over next time they toured if I would wait that long. Being in university and basically broke, I couldn't take him up on the offer.
I should have. Streetly has restored one of the two and it now works perfectly -- according to Martin (but you can't really trust him now, can you?
Rick