Hi Ken
yeah...you posted a couple of my tracks(from my CD HEAVEN AND
EARTH) on there,so thanks for that.Too bad the project went into
limbo.
Martin had intended a Vol.2 Rime CD or a multi-part Mellotron
Symphony,if I recall... Charles Thaxton
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, kenmerb@a... wrote:
> In a message dated 1/21/2005 5:42:15 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> punchbowl4@e... writes:
>
> > Yeah...Ken M....where is it....?
> >
> > Since we have a bunch of new list members, maybe we should
revive this
> > project. What made it bog down anyway? You know....We could do a
Rime
> > Vol. 2, and this will spur on activity for a Vol. 3 closely
thereafter,
> > hmmm?
> >
> > Vance
> >
> >
>
> I've gone through this already, but I'll do it one more time for
those who
> may have missed it, or are new to the list.
>
> A couple of years ago, I created a website which included pictures
and
> information about my home studio and mellotron related experiences
(much like Ken
> Leonard's site). At the time, my web hosting company offered huge
amounts of
> file space for free, so I thought it would be a great idea to get
everyone to
> submit any mellotron related tunes they created. I would upload
them to my
> website for everyone to hear (Ken Leonard had showed me how to do
this). Since
> they were "originals", we wouldn't get into trouble, legally.
>
> This quickly snowballed into a much larger project, the thought
being that we
> could create a CD of the best of these tunes, everyone on the
mellotronist
> list getting a vote. People on this list offered their services
in the form of
> artwork for the cover, original tunes, and one of our members even
offered to
> make copies of the CD for everyone on the list (he worked in a CD
production
> facility at the time).
>
> Now, I never called this "Rime 2", but that name started going
around and it
> kind of stuck. I preferred "The Mellotron Project". This was more
of an
> amateur effort (no offense intended) than Rime, tunes were
submitted by people like
> me who are not necessarily professional musicians, just love the
mellotron
> and have the ability to record their playing. As people would
submit things, I
> would put them on my web site for all to hear, along with the
details of the
> instruments played, mellotron sounds and musicians. The thought
was that we
> would select the best and record the CD. This was not meant to be
a
> professional thing at all, and I can only think of one or two
tunes which were submitted
> by a professional musician (the complete opposite of Rime).
>
> Well, as KL put it so well, "life got in the way" for most of us.
I didn't
> receive as many submissions as I had hoped. Many people who
intended to do a
> tune (including myself) never got around to recording one. Hey,
it's not easy,
> when it comes right down to it. We lost our CD production
capability when
> our production source changed jobs. My first web host went under,
and I changed
> to another company. Then ∗that∗ company had a dispute between the
two
> owners, which lead to closing down of the company (right after I
had prepaid for a
> year of service at a now pricey rate). A third company took over
the web
> hosting, but most of the time the customers were left without
service. After a
> couple of personal setbacks which soon followed, I decided to just
let the
> project and the website go.
>
> The upside is that we did get to hear original mellotron song
submissions
> from people all overf the world, at least for a while. Someone on
this list was
> just asking about the Pink Floyd mellotron? We had a nice tune on
the site
> from the current owner of that Streetly restored, ex-Pink Floyd
MKII (now in
> Israel), sounding very psychadellic indeed. Now that I think
about it, I miss
> many of those tunes, like "The Cool Vibe of Asia C", which I think
is going to
> be available on the upcoming Systems Theory CD, from what I hear.
Fritz's
> terrific stuff was also on there, and I know his CD is coming out
soon too.
> Sundae Club is another example, same thing. And I love Roc
Burgo's stuff (anything
> new Roc?), along with many of the other submissions. So, I guess
this wasn't
> a total waste of time. Hopefully it spurred some people on to
record their
> own tunes. Maybe we can resurrect it, never say never. I still
have the
> recordings (starting to feel like Brian Wilson here). Vance has
every right to ask
> "Yeah...Ken M....where is it....?". He had the first submission,
if I recall,
> with some nice work on his Chamberlin. The problem with doing
something like
> this is that it starts out being fun, and then it turns into a
situation
> where a lot of people are expecting something and it turns into
work.
>
> OK, so that's the story of "Rime 2". I no longer have a web site
(or the
> desire to maintain one), so it wouldn't be easy to resurrect it.
I hope that
> anwers any questions.
>
> Ken M.
>
>
>
> I think KL summed it up rather well when he said that" Life got in
the way".