Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

"Prog flavored mainstream pop"--it can happen! That string of words
will never get me a music review job at CMJ, but they laud every
disc that skates across their desk anyway. The material they don't
like, they just just don't mention.

Oxymoron sounds like an ingredient in laundry detergent. Me...I'm
just a lawnmower; you can tell me by the way I walk.

Muzak/chill-out cover of a King Crimson tune--kind of reminded me of
a conversation I had with Dave Kean back around ten years ago when
Mellotron Archives was operating out of Moses Lake, Washington--at
the time he was moonlighting in a bar band and renting out discs to
karaoke machines in the area. A number of the songs on the karaoke
discs that originally had Mellotron on them were quite faithfully
reproduced as instrumentals and we believe they also used the real
thing! Strawberry Fields Forever was there in its original glory
w/it's flute intro and pitching. The Theremin was on Good Vibrations
and a number of other songs used the original vintage sounds...so
these karaoke people must have had access to some collectable
equipment...you think these people raided Rockfield, Noise New
Jersey, Bearsville or Steve Fisk's studio in the dead of
night...back then?!??