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----- Original Message -----From: Rick BlechtaSent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 5:31 PMSubject: Re: [Mellotronists] Zombie Trons!...-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Tillotson [mailto:p.m.Tillotson@...]or Alice Cooper's "Hello Hooray" which sounds like the player had oven mitts on while playing and was plugged into some random guitar amp in the back of the studio.An interesting sidebar for everyone: Sadly, the mellotron used for this recording was my FX Console. Alice was recording in Toronto at Nimbus 9 at the same time as Buzzy Linhart (remember him?). Buzzy hired me to play on three or four tracks and towards the end of the session, Alice wandered in (he was recording at night), saw the mellotron and asked about it. I was all set to play when Ezrin walked in, heard what Alice had to say about wanting to use it, turned to me and said, "I'd rather one of our guys play it. Would you be willing to rent it to us? You could pick it up tomorrow morning."Well, that's Bob Ezrin for you...Needless to say, I wasn't happy, basically because I knew what a shnook Ezrin 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 (wanting to make sure they didn't fuck it up overnight), the engineer pulled me aside and said, "Listen to this." He played the 24 track with the mellotron roughly in place in the mix and once by itself. "What the hell did they do?" 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 had sat in the corner of the studio for years. Sounded to me like they used a Radio Shack mic...
Rick (FX10030--still trying to live down the shame of it all)
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