Have listen to the sound track of Red Planet. Gabriel does a piece called "The
tower that eats people" as the opening and a longer closing/credits theme. If
my ears aren't deceiving me there is a Mellotron used, set to strings. Maybe
it's a sample but I trust him to be fateful.
Tony
#510
> Dear All
>
> On the subject of whether Peter Gabriel owns a 'Tron... I very much expect
> he does. An anecdote recounted to me by Julian Cope (a true 'Tron devotee,
> he has a fluorescent orange 400 painstakingly hand crafted by the Tronbros
> .... Is he on this list!?) a year or so ago told the tale of a conversation
> between himself and the great Mr. G, in which Peter Gabriel commented,
>
> "Oh you have a Mellotron 400?... Oh yes.... Are they the little white ones?"
>
> Strangely, the only keyboard mentioned on the Real World Studios website is
> a Yamaha DX7, and they're a load of bells.
>
> CfN!!
>
> C
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