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Hi James / all:

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Bailey" <jimab@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2005 7:24 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Live 'Tron in Toronto Wed. night - NOT


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> Hi folks,
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> A little late getting to this, but I'm sorry to report that the 'tron
> was a no-show at the Ping last Wednesday. Although I didn't get to
> talk to Byron myself (perhaps Mr. Dale could help, as he was there,
> and I believe did) he is awaiting it's arrival from Sweden which is
> taking longer than expected.

No tron, but the music was superb regardless. There was enough space,
atmosphere, melody, and electronics noise to make it worthwhile.

The tron is arriving from Sweden, a standard MK 6 I believe with Chamberlin
sounds on the tapes. Markus would have to clarify. Not looking to nitpick,
though I told Byron there is still an audible difference in hearing
Chamberlin sounds from a mellotron as opposed to an original Chamberlin. At
least there's been in the machines' I've heard anyway. He prefers the
Chamberlin over the tron due to what might be bandwidth, though he'd rather
have all the sounds tweaked to be perfectly in tune as well.


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> The show otherwise was ok, though a bit too quiet during the first
> set, especially considering the large amount of hum in the p.a. system.
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> Sorry I didn't manage to talk to you much, Chris, but had some things
> to discuss with the event organizers and a few others and was hoping
> we could chat during the break.
Can't blame you for leaving before
> then, though, what with the p.a. problem and lack of 'tron.

Well I was a little disappointed that there was no tron, but I actually
thought some of the P.A. problem sounded pretty good as extra noise!


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> think you should try to get a gig there as you suggested, with your
> vintage 'boards. Wouldn't recommend the double Wakeman-o-tron unless
> you've got an army of helpers to get it up those stairs.

There's lots of Yes fans in Toronto who would love to have the so called
"honour" of carrying it, though I think this would be a one time occurrence
once reality sunk in and they all realized how awkward and cumbersome it
could be.


Chris





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> > host: Electric Storm / A Missing Sense
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