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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] "Uriah Heep" mellotron s/n 1080 was owned by...

From: John Hofmeyer <j_hofmeyer@...>
Date: 2004-09-16

So did they gift the Mellotron to Uriah Heep on the
"Magician's Birthday"

...sorry, I couldn't resisit...

-jh


--- George Summers <gpsummers@...> wrote:

> That "Uriah Heep" mellotron, s/n 1080, was once owned by
> magician
> David Copperfield. Copperfield got it because his idol,
> English
> magician, David Nixon had had a Mk II mellotron in the mid
> 60's.
> Magician David Nixon was also working with Les Bradley on
> the
> promotion of the mellotron. Both Nixon and Copperfield were
> quite
> good on the mellotron and I've heard that John Lennon
> commented, in
> Rolling Stone, that," those guys could play the dickens out
> of those
> mellotrons".
> George Summers Houston, Texas USA Remember the Alamo!
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