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Subject: Fw: [Mellotronists] more magic

From: "jonesalley" <jonesalley@...>
Date: 2005-11-07

Now if I could just find my damned Moog Sonic V. I still kick myself daily
for that one.



> Jonsey-incredible!
> Pete
>
> jonesalley wrote:
>
>> In the late 1970's, I played in a popular band in Vermont, doing a modest
>> selection of originals, a lot of arena-rock stuff, Styx, Foreigner,
>> Journey, REO, and the like, and also a fair amount of fusiony stuff like
>> Steely Dan and Return to Forever. I had a nice setup, some of my own
>> keyboards, and some gear that the band owned, including an early Korg
>> analog polyphonic which was a mildly eccentric and uncommon synth of the
>> time that I got a lot of good use out of. I left the band in 1980, but
>> have stayed a Korg fan to this day. A few years ago, I saw a Korg P
>> listed on eBay, and ended up winning the auction. The seller was in the
>> northeast, and I mentioned in an email that I had used one of these
>> instruments in a band in Vermont, and told a little of the band history.
>> To make a long story short, the fellow that sold me the eBay Korg was the
>> brother of the player who replaced me in the band in 1980, and when he
>> left the band a couple of years later, he bought the Korg and took it
>> with him and sold it to his brother, my eBay seller, many years later.
>> I now own the exact same instrument that I played on many New England
>> stages over twenty-five years ago.
>>