No Mellotron on any of the early stuff I listened to. I only liked a very few of their songs, "Song For America" being the zenith for me. When that album came out, I was a dead ringer for Phil Ehart's picture on the back cover and many people asked if that was who I was - that was a really, really long time ago. The bassist I was with in my last band was an occasional fill-in player for the embryonic Proto-Kaw band before they finally got going and Livgren stopped in briefly at a performance of ours one night. A real "brush with greatness."
What is the right amount of LSD, by the way? I was never able to determine that...
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Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:19 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Wakeman/M.Python/slamming Idaho
On Fri, 14 Jan 2005, jonesalley wrote:
>
> so where do all the redneck republican spuds live now?
>
> ----Speaking as one who is trapped in Kansas, next door.
> Thanks, I'll be here all week, try the veal!
...and don't forget to tip your waiters
speaking of kansas... did they ever use a mellotron?
[the band... not the state...]
i use to think about 10% of their material pretty interesting.
[in a pompous prog wankers kind of way...]
saw them once at a new years eve show here in philly at the
tower theatre [but under the influence of WAY too much LSD
to remember very much all these years later...]
;0)
jeff...
[still having flashbacks... but not always in a bad way...]