Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

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 had XM (satellite) radio installed in my car right before I drove from Boston to Florida.   This is the best thing to happen to radio in a long time.  No commercials, and they have a "prog type" station which plays a lot of tunes by bands mentioned on this list. No "Happy the Man" yet though, Roc, but I'm still listening for them.  They ∗were∗ mentioned in the latest Keyboard magazine, though, along with other prog bands.  There's also an interesting discussion in there about how the term "prog" means different things to different people, when describing a style of music.  Anyway, XM radio rocks.   I listen to the PROG station and the DEEP TRACKS station mainly.  For every song they play on XM, you see the name of the artist and the song title, so it's a great way to discover music.  The stations don't fade out as you travel from town to town, because of the satellite transmission.   It costs $9.99 per month.  I haven't heard so much mellotron on the radio since the 70s.  Wish I could get XM radio in my house, but I can't (antenna problems), so I have to listen to these horrible Florida radio stations, which seem to play mostly new car ads.

Ken M