Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: Mellotronists

Hey, hey hey now. The subject of Mellotron Disasters is GREAT
reading. The bottom line is: if there is anything that is
fanatically collectable in limited supply, it ought to be accounted
for. Anyone who appreciates a Mellotron wants to know EXACTLY where
every one of those instruments are, and what they are doing RIGHT
NOW. Recording? Sleeping? Posing as a piece of furniture? If Mark2
No.XXX wound up as firewood and M400 #XXX wound up on two dozen
killer prog albums...that's info to somebody.

So--what did we all agree upon--that roughly one-third of all these
machines are accounted for--dead or alive?

Intellectual self-indulgent pandering? Well of course!

So...Sinfield wrote the "burn a bridge/boat/lizard/throat" bit? Well
then, Fripp had to approve it. Nice to know these two guys have some
kind of working relationship. The lyrics have stuck somehow for
nearly 35 years, yet I know if I was to go downtown and recite them
(singing is out of the question) I'd risk being detained. I might
have better luck babbling the lyrics to Come Together, as I'd have a
greater chance of someone recognising those lyrics and stepping
forward to bail me out.

A Mellotron in Canada is lost down an embankment. Only a handful of
people knew about this horrific event for years and years...and then
this little tidbit of info pops up on
groups.yahoo.com/mellotronists. Thank God for the internet.