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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Ummagumma
From: ferrograph@...
Date: 2005-01-22
<< It is the one I am playing on the picture of me on the tronpage site. Went
to Israel.. >>
is this the machine that's in tel-aviv, & all over the rockfour albums?
played, at least, by one noam rapaport. anyone who likes the byrds, the beatles,
brian wilson or the dukes of stratosphear ought to give rockfour a spin. there's
even a hint of neil finn about some of the songwriting.
I saw them in london at the end of 2003- charming chaps. the singer (eli) had
auditioned unsuccessfully to be the hebrew voice of spongebob squarepants,
the famous nickelodeon cartoon character, & he was mortified when I brought this
up in front of his bandmates.... I had visited the studio of uzi fox, a
former israeli popstar now running a post-production facility, whilst on a
due-diligence mission on behalf of viacom....
what I DIDN'T know was that rick wright had actually owned the machine.... I
have all the floyd albums up to "animals" (the last one that's not completely
dominated by waters' ego) & they must have switched the 'tron on about three
times in total. there's a fair bit on "atom heart mother", isn't there?
duncan/400nr1098 with square pants
(what happened to king hussein's machine? still in jordan?)