Sounds good to me! So much so that I popped over to CDBaby to order
a copy.
More samples:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/leerichardsBernie
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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "L. Richards" <surfbeach@...>
wrote:
>
> Check out this solo multi-lead tune from Ken Leonard and Lee
Richards from the Moneypit Feb '06 site.
> Flute and choir from Lee's 400, strings and spanish guitar from
Jerry Korbs Mark1. Just mellotron and Ken's Korg piano.
> Not quite as famous as kraftwerk and King Crimson, but......
> Enjoy
> Aloha from Lee, and M400 #541
> http://kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0206/recording.htm
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: jeffc@...
> To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:41 AM
> Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Solo trons
>
>
> On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Doug Berg wrote:
>
> > --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, jeffc@ wrote:
> > >>
> > >
> > > not to pick nits, but kraftwerk's TEE is actually an
orchestron,
> > and
> > > not a mellotron. see:
> > > http://www.optigan.com/tidbits.html#6
> > >
> > > it's an easy one to mistake for a mellotron, and for years
that's
> > > what i thought it was also. another is popol
vuh's "Aguirre". it
> > > sounds like a mellotron choir, but it's some oddity called a
> > > "choir organ" or something like that [or WAS it?]:
> > >
> >
> >
> > >Re: Thanks for that one Jeff, could that mystery choir be a
> > Roland 330 vocorder?
>
> nope.
> i own one of those [bought it brand new many years ago] and
> i know the sound quite well, and both of those recordings FAR
> pre-date the vp-330 vocoder plus. though i DID actually buy it
> as a mellotron substitute, thinking i would NEVER be able to
> actually own one.
>
> > Back in the radio days when Kraftwerk brought out their 2nd
lp, Man
> > Machine, we were playing "We Are The Robots" both on air, and
in the
> > Clubs and got to see them in N.Y. courtest of Capitol, and I
> > remember seeing a 400 on stage, or so I thought. But who
remembers
> > the 70's? Doug
>
> jeez, i feel like real jerk for pointing this out too,
> but "man machine" was not their 2nd lp. radioactivity,
> autobahn, ralf and florian all pre-date man machine.
> [i think even TEE was the release before that one]
> [and there were 2 very rare and somewhat oscure releases
> prior to ALL of them, plus the one called "organisation"
> which was them before the name kraftwerk was theirs]
>
> sorry man :=)
> call me a jerk - it's okay.
>
> i remember the 70s well enough to recall some amazing
> drugs back then... but that's all in the distant past.
> [hash oil? anyone remembr that stuff?]
>
> i saw them in, i think it was, 1975 at the tower theatre
> in upper darby pa, then again [year unknown] for the
> computer world tour at a disco in new jersey. the 1975
> show is a total blur [thanks to the drugs] so i have
> no ideawhat theywere using [and i was not as into the
> gear as i am now, or even was just a few years later]
> the computer world tour was one in which all the gear
> was built into a large semi-circular console, so other
> than the "toys" used for pocket calculator, all of it
> was totally obscured and hidden. the 1975 show was the
> tour they did for autobahn - i recall hearing that track
> played IN ITS ENTIRETY [all 22.5 minutes of it!] on a
> radio station hear in philadelphia when it was new.
> it changed my life forever.
> [not necessarily for the better]
>
> ...jeff
> [who needs to use the rubber conditionaer to annoy
> the wife with, but i'll wait until she is over
> her cold for maximum impact - see what a jerk i am?]
>
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> >
> >
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