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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Early Recordings

From: doctorwho8@...
Date: 2003-02-13

The gentleman's history is incorrect. The Moodies did use the Mellotron on
Days. The orchestra was overdubbed after the Moodies recorded their stuff.
After Days, they used no orchestra, just the Mellotron even more.
Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

In a message dated 2/13/03 1:27:36 PM, g-colin.crawford@... writes:

>On Thursday, February 13, 2003, at 07:17 pm, Don Robertson wrote:
>
>> Days of Future Past didn't use the tron.
>
>Surely the Orchestra was just used for the tacky bits between songs to
>
>give the impression of a "concept album"? "Nights in White Satin" is
>
>just one of the tracks on this album which sure as hell used Tron. No
>orchestra worth its members' union fees would play that badly.
>
>CfN!!