Yep,
I saw Lake play the mellotron in 1974 in Zurich, and yes the opening
song was Abbadon's Bolero with the tron, the sound was violins or
strings (difficult to distinguish...) I send some time ago the
recording I made with an ancestor of walkman (very poor quality) to
Ken Merb just for the fun...
Victor
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Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Paul Tillotson"
<p.m.Tillotson@w...> wrote:
> The one reference I have directly read from an interview with
Emerson was
> that Lake was suppose to help flesh out "Abbadon's Bolero" live
with his
> 'tron but the Mellotron malfunctioned the first try live and so the
song was
> scrapped from live sets.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Stan Cotey" <Stan_Cotey@d...>
> To: "Mellotron List" <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 10:10 AM
> Subject: RE: [Mellotronists] Keith Emerson = Troniac? Not
>
>
> > I understand Lake used a Mellotron on the Works tour when the
orchestra
> became to expensive.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Andy Thompson [mailto:andy.thompson@v...]
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 8:27 AM
> > To: Mellotron List
> > Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Keith Emerson = Troniac? Not
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "David Jacques" <djacques@c...>
> > 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.
> >
> >
> >
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