'ello Duncan! Awake again I see :)
I must say that the front of house speakers were in severe danger due to the minimoog. My wife squeezed my arm at the time, and shouted in my ear "that's your minimoog, innit?". Bless her - she says that if I ever get a Mark II I can put it in the living room. Grrrrrrr....
Hey as chance would have it I have all of Tomita's offerings on vinyl (lots of vinyl in my house). I can look this up for you. I remember being a lad drooling over his equipment lists. Yes some boys read sports magazines, some read Playboys, I read album covers....
Best Regards,
- Gene
M400S #1023
M400S #1213
M400S #1289
-----Original Message-----
From: ferrograph@... [mailto:ferrograph@...]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 8:58 PM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] jetlagged &/or tired & emotional
<< (1023 and 1213 on-stage last weekend at ProgWest - Hi Duncan!) >>
first up- gene, many many thanks for coming through with the two machines and
the moogy mini. and for just being there. I've never had a keyboard tech
around before....
shame nothing had time to warm up properly because of those italian
stage-hogs and their might-as-well-have-been-a-cd performance. long live
improv, say I.
but taking all day to soundcheck did give their performance the edge, if you
like that sort of thing. is dario argento big in the US then?
and maudlin... I thought their bassist was a sport for playing the gig with
his right wrist in a pot like that- told me he'd sliced the tendons (yike!)
hence the weird angle, and he couldn't get out of the gig because of a plane
ticket snafu. they were fun, I thought. odd what passes for prog these days-
I mean, WE were there under some sort of cultural exchange programme cooked
up by mr thaxton; we expected fully to be playing to him alone, but people
actually cheered at the mention of the jodrell bank album. one guy followed
us all the way to PA for the next gig.
you don't forget things like that.
[Gene Stopp] <snip>
(um... tomita- does anyone have a vinyl copy of his debussy stuff? it had a
gear list on it, I'm sure. later LP's abbreviated this, and it's missing from
the little silver versions altogether. I think he had a vako box too.... I
can well believe the stuff about the talc- he looks like a fussy sort of
bloke in his pictures).
duncan/r.m.i./400nr1098 (which has been in a planetarium several times and
knows nothing of any sort of white powder except cigarette ash)