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From: Paul Tillotson [mailto:p.m.Tillotson@...]or Alice Cooper's "HelloHooray" which sounds like the player had oven mitts on while playing andwas plugged into some random guitar amp in the back of the studio.An interesting sidebar for everyone: Sadly, the mellotron used for thisrecording was my FX Console. Alice was recording in Toronto at Nimbus 9at the same time as Buzzy Linhart (remember him?). Buzzy hired me to playon three or four tracks and towards the end of the session, Alice wanderedin (he was recording at night), saw the mellotron and asked about it. Iwas all set to play when Ezrin walked in, heard what Alice had to say aboutwanting to use it, turned to me and said, "I'd rather one of our guys playit. Would you be willing to rent it to us? You could pick it up tomorrowmorning."Well,that's Bob Ezrin for you...Needless to say, I wasn't happy, basically because I knew what a shnookEzrin was. Alice was very apologetic but the fact was, I was sent home.When I picked up my mellotron with our road crew the next day (wantingto make sure they didn't fuck it up overnight), the engineer pulled measide and said, "Listen to this." He played the 24 track with the mellotronroughly in place in the mix and once by itself. "What the hell did theydo?" I asked. "That's Bobby. Fancies he's a bit of a keyboard player."
If I remember rightly, they used a crapped out Twin Reverb that hadsat in the corner of the studio for years. Sounded to me like they useda Radio Shack mic...
Rick (FX10030--still trying to live down the shame of it all)