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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Bowie

From: "Mattias Olsson" <mattias.olsson5@...>
Date: 2003-01-05

Hey hey....
 
Stylophones are great....No matter how much stuff you put on a track the Stylophone always finds it´s way to the forefront...How about Stylophone sounds for the Mellotron or maybe a new grungedisc for the Optigan....?
 
Just Ideas.....
 
...and yes I´d love to use a Birotron live....I have used a Orchestron live on tv...Silent Night on Christmas eve....Very nervous....Not recommended for pregnant women or people with heart conditions...All of a sudden the Stylophone seems very reliable and trustworthy...
 
// Mattias
----- Original Message -----
From: Pomeroy Ranch
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 1:01 AM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Bowie

What is this? A stylophone renaissance?? I just saw Jamie Oliver  - on his cooking show here in the US - playing with his old band, Scarlet Division....and the keyboardist did a little stylophone lead in there......whew! I little garlic and olive oil and we could have a synth salad....

Vance....actually used one once.....a stylophone, that is

Aidan Clark wrote:

I remember the RW performance.  Wasn't it on a quiz show called Bygones?  Mint and boxed old Stylophones are supposedly still available from the manufacturers' website.  AC  ---- Original Message -----
From: Nic Lewis
Sent: Saturday, January 04, 2003 1:20 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Bowie
 At 20:04 02/01/03 -0800, bob.snyder wrote:
>Did anyone catch David Bowie playing the stylophone on network TV (CBS
>morning show) a couple of days ago? Made my morning.
>
>Bob S.

This has reminded me of an appearance by Wakeman on a (comedy) quiz show
on British TV - he was provided with about 10 or 12 stylophones on stands
in an arc
around him (a la his grandiose stage set up) and asked to perform.

This also made my day.

I think the show was about innovations (mainly from the 60s and 70s) that have
passed into kitsch classics or have been entirely forgotten - maybe someone on
the list remembers the show and can elucidate?
 
 



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