In a message dated 4/6/2005 8:06:34 PM Pacific Standard Time, kenmerb@... writes:
I recognize the thing Mike Pinder is playing, I have one like it in my living room. Could this be Frank's MKII? If it is, I've played (I use that term loosely) this very one. Pictures of its restoration are on Ken Leonard's web site. The thing on top of it looks like a Marshall head to me.
Unfortunately, it's not. Ken, you and I viewed some of this footage when you came through San Diego a few years ago. Elsewhere in the video there a glimpse of the back of the MkII and it has the standard grillcloth (and, if memory serves me correct - I'm too lazy this morning to toss the video in the machine - the top reversed with the music stand hanging off the back ala the pic on the back of ISOTLC). Pics have shown Mike to at least have this one, one with horizontal slots on the back panel (no cloth) and one with vertical slots (#134, now sitting in my little studio). It's great to hear a bona fide, live, warts-and-all Moodies performance.
Frank Samagaio
San Diego CA
MkII #134 / M400 #908
author, The Mellotron Book