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Subject: Yes 'Tron

From: "Andy Thompson" <andy.thompson@...>
Date: 2005-02-17

Dear all
 
For those of you who are interested, I just found this posting from '96 on an archive Elephant Talk:
 
"As a HUGE and LONG TIME YES fan I must correct a mistake that has been repeated a few
times here at ET.  YES' use of a mellotron was NOT significant.  I'd like to
know where the mellotron was supposidly played.  It is known that Tony Kaye,
in both the early years and the 80's, did NOT use one because he disliked
them.  Yes, Wakeman used one, but it's use is SO rare that it is not even
worth mentioning, and again he also disliked useing them.  And I am pretty
confideant in saying that FRAGILE was the ∗only∗ album he used one on.  So
don't look to YES for a mellotron."
 
The same digest features someone asking if the string sound at the beginning of 'Starless' was a 'Tron.
 
Well, it made me laugh...
 
Andy T.