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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] musical box

From: Don Tillman <don@...>
Date: 2003-10-20

> From: Rick Blechta <rick@...>
> Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:44:21 -0400
>
> Also, by your thinking, would everyone else in the band have to
> be using exactly the same equipment as Genesis used.

Don't they, pretty much?

Or is the guitarist really playing a plastic toy guitar behind a
cardboard cutout of a Les Paul? :-)

> There's a big difference between having real instruments but
> faking the playing because you aren't good enough, and have to
> use something out of expediency, but being able to play the shit
> out of the music, which the present TMB keyboard player does.

If he simply played a digital sampler keyboard that would be
expediency. But since he built a fake Mellotron, he shouldn't be
surprised if music fans suspect other forms of fakery.

-- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
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