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Subject: Is there anyone out there?

From: tron@...
Date: 2004-09-26

In the recent message <cj4lid+ik5a@...>
you wrote...

> As well as those already mentioned, a few other possibilities that
> spring to mind would be:
>
> Brian Eno
> Manfred Mann
> David Bowie
> Robert Wyatt

etc etc

Aside from the already-raised 'minority interest' issues brought up,
there is also the other problm of getting any of these people to speak
to you. I mean, why would they bother wanting to conduct an interview
about ∗one instrument∗ they (might have) played ∗once∗, perhaps decades
ago? Wyatt (for instance) raves on about the Mellotron in the liner
notes to 'Matching Mole' but has never used one since.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/