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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Zeppelin tron.

From: <chris.dale@...>
Date: 2003-04-02

The M400 used by Led Zeppelin was a standard Streetly M400, serial number 216 I think. 
 
 There is a bootleg video of The Song Remains The Same where the unit can clearly be seen during a lacklustre performance of the Rain Song.  The machine goes out of tune, and Pagey sulks through the entire piece.
 
 Regarding mellotrons with handles - there is a picture in Crimson's "Great Deceiver" Box set where handles have been fitted to the sides of their M400. The machine is still white (no carpet or black paint).
 
 
Chris   
----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Thompson
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Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:49 AM
Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] Zeppelin tron.

 
-----Original Message-----
From: kinchmusic@... [mailto:kinchmusic@...]
Sent: 31 March 2003 20:57
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] Zeppelin tron.

Does anyone know whether the machine in question was an EMI one? Only, when I discovered my beaten up machine rotting away in some basement in Kensington a few years ago, the seller reckoned it had spent its last working years at the country retreat of Jimmy Page. 
 
The seller of my M400 reckoned it was 'ex-Crimson'. Yeah, right. Zep's M400, at least in '73, was a standard white one. To my knowledge, that's the machine used on the studio 'Rain Song' and 'Kashmir', although I believe 'Kashmir' was easier to perform with the MkV. Wasn't that the prototype one? Looks quite different to the production model.
 

Andy T.  

M400 #1145

'The Ultimate Mellotron Recordings List (Possibly)'

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