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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Moody Blues/Pinder question

From: MAinPsych@...
Date: 2004-01-13

In a message dated 1/13/2004 12:40:38 PM Eastern Standard Time, charel196@... writes:

> Listening to the remastered THRESHOLD OF A DREAM it sure
> sounds like choir voices in "The Voyage"...did Pinder ever
> have choir tapes or consider having the whole band's voices
> put on his MK 2?(all those huge stacked choral backgrouds of
> Hayward/Lodge/Thomas/Pinder would sound great on a
> tron)...Martin?

I know exactly the section you're referring to. The Man himself told me that they attempted to make their own tapes one time, but were not suitable for use. More likely the way the tron itself was recorded. That would be a great question for Derek Varnals, whom I hope to interview for the revised book (and had expressed an interest in doing so).

Frank Samagaio
San Diego CA
MkII #134 / M400 #908
author, The Mellotron Book