Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists
Subject: Fwd: [Mellotronists] Hello to all
From: Colin Crawford <g-colin.crawford@...>
Date: 2002-12-29
> From: Colin Crawford <g-colin.crawford@...>
> Date: Sun Dec 29, 2002 11:28:06 am Europe/London
> To: "mellotrongirl <mellotrongirl@...>"
> <mellotrongirl@...>
> Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Hello to all
>
> Blimey!
>
> ..Girlies on the List?!... Whatever next!... It's the thin end of the
> wedge, I'm telling ya!.. Don't you REALISE, MellotronGirl, that the
> rest of us all sit around in comfy leather club armchairs and
> Chesterfield Sofas in our exclusively Male Environment, smoking large
> Havanas, quaffing Vintage Ports and Fine Scotch Whisky and bemoaning
> our lack of success with the Fairer Gender. Granted, Norm may
> occasionally utter something vaguely Tron-related which will wake us
> from our comfortable apathy, and the Tronbros will try and lower the
> tone and ruin the ambiance with their Beer Drinking, but by and large,
> we're a sexist, upper-class, English, quasi-English or at least
> Anglophile bunch of Flat Earthers who make the General Synod look
> progressive... Actually, they LET women in didn't they, so they ARE
> progressive.
> Then there's THIS bit:
>
>
> On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 05:37 am, mellotrongirl
> <mellotrongirl@...> wrote:
>> Of course I like all the Mellotron LP's you people like. Spring, Eyes
>> Of Blue, Help Yourself, Goblin, SFF, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Il
>> Baletto Di Bronzo, Fields, Moody Blues, Refugee, King Crimson, Kayak,
>> Earth & Fire, Strawbs, Strange Advance, Anekdoten, Jonesy, Fruupp,
>> Yes, Sebastian Hardie, Gracious!, and whatever else winds up on
>> labels like Harvest SKAO/SHVL, Brain/Metronome, Famous Charisma, RCA
>> Neon, Ohr, Cosmic Couriers, Vertigo swirl label, etc.
>
> What's THIS then? Aren't you supposed to like Abba, The Bay City
> Rollers, New Seekers and the like... Atomic Kitten if you're a Young
> 'un... This is Man's Music GodDammit!
>
> What IS the world coming to?
>>
> Honly Jeoking!!
CC
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