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Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] CHECK THIS OUT!

From: "David Jacques" <djacques@...>
Date: 2007-01-13

I would have sold my mother for that…whatever condition it may have been in…

 


From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com[mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com] OnBehalf Of Rick Blechta
Sent: Friday, January 12, 20074:12 PM
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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] CHECKTHIS OUT!

 

 

On Jan 12, 2007, at 9:53 PM, David Jacques wrote:



Ahhh.. you just don’t like him because he won’t sellthose Mark II’s that are trashed beyond belief!!!! They used the one with theside 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 PeterSinfield. I stopped to ask him about the mellotrons he'd used the eveningbefore in a concert I attended (not having seen a 400 in the flesh before). Heoffered to sell me one of the two MkIIs he had for $3000. He even offered tobring it over next time they toured if I would wait that long. Being inuniversity 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 worksperfectly -- according to Martin (but you can't really trust him now, can you?

 

Rick