Gents (and Mellotrongirl),
Now that the great turkey cooking and eating and leftovering has
taken place, I am back in the office and it's time to reveal the
facts about those recordings. They were both recorded by the same
fellow, a 25-year-old kid who has lived his whole life in Texas!
Yes, it's truly amazing how well he was able to imitate the early '68
sound of the Moody Blues. He performed all the parts himself on
the "London Is Behind Me" track including the John Lodge falsetto and
the Justin Hayward double-tracked vocals. Though he owns an
M400 and plays it in his 'regular' band (thats the other link), he
used an Akai Z4 sampler and Roland midi controller keyboard with
samples from the Mike Pinder Mellotron CD-Rom. He even sampled the
drum intro to Departure (from This Is The Moody Blues) to
create a rhythm track that sounds correct for the era. The end
result was very convincing...and very enjoyable.
Hope everyone had a good weekend...
FS. Weller
> Here's something I just ran across thought you might be interested:
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> http://www.scatteredpages.com/americantmp3/negative.mp3
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> also:
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> http://users2.ev1.net/~bigrynz/london.mp3
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> Something to listen to while you head back for another slice of
> pumpkin pie.
>
> FS. Weller
> (".....all I want for Christmas is # 574.....")