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From: "David Jacques" <djacques@...>
To: "Mellotron List" <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 3:44 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Keith Emerson = Troniac? Not


> Found this amusing quote from Keith Emerson...
>
> "I refuse to play a Mellotron on the grounds that it just doesn't agree
> with my principles.

And playing bad honky-tonk piano and tuneless 20-minutes 'epics' does?

Because another violinist has had to come in to tape
> record it and what you're playing is a tape recording - I refuse to play
> a Mellotron under those situations.

That's the most stupid reason I've ever heard for disliking them. Why not
just admit that you don't like them because they won't let you show off
outrageously?

Greg (Lake) has a Mellotron--I don't
> mind him playing it."

Anyone know anything about this? I heard that he used it twice on stage for
FX in 'Tarkus' before it caught fire (!).

Andy T.