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From: JS
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2003 4:00 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] it lives!


>Hi all!

>Been busy with other projects and being a lurker of late, but something
interesting has come to my attention that I wanted to share.

>It seems that the rebirth of prog-flavored mainstream pop is finally
starting. If you haven't encountered a band called Evanescence (
www.evanescence.com ) yet, >check them out.

Hello,

Just got back from a car trip from New Jersey (my home) to North Carolina,
USA. Forgot CD's, so was stuck with the radio, and it is such a wasteland
(except for the Pentecostal religious shows which are quite entertaining!)

I heard the band Jon is referring to in his post ("Evanescence.") It
appears that they have a big hit, as I heard it many times on various
stations.
The song is quite good, probably (at least for this week) the nicest thing
I've heard in many years. There appears to be mellotron sounds on this.
Don't know whether it is real, or samples, but I don't really care (one of
MY pet peeves is people getting "hung up" over whether the tron is "real" or
not.) Sounds real good to me. I wish them well.

Now for the composers in the audience, and pondering from the experiences of
this car trip...Did anyone ever think of taking a Pentecostal sermon,
recording it, and writing a song around the rhythms provided by the
preacher? Now that could be a varying odd time signature prog rock classic,
at least rhythmically, as far as I know.

Best regards,

Roc
M400 #1001
www.mp3.com/healingghosts