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Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Chamberlin Rhythmate

From: "Mattias" <Mattias.olsson5@...>
Date: 2005-12-23

I love my Rhythmate...In my twenty odd years of drumming I have never heard a drummer that is so consistently sloppy and care free...Can you imagine the takes that didn't make it...?
 
The march especially is wonderful. It sounds like someone explained to the drummer how a march sounds and then he tried it once and then abandoned the idea halfway through...
 
I have started to suspect that it might be harry himself on a couple of them...
 
// Mattias
----- Original Message -----
From: lsf5275@...
To: mellotrongirl@... ; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 12:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Chamberlin Rhythmate

In a message dated 12/19/2005 6:08:29 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, mellotrongirl@... writes:
"I'll take it! I just can't wait to get away from it all!" - Firesign
Theater
I've actually had a chance to dig around inside Mattias Olsson's Rhythmate a few years ago when he brought it with him to NEARfest. It wasn't working and so he let me mess around with it. I got it working after a while but I regret not taking photos of the inside of it. It looked like something someone might have built in there garage
 
I thought it was very cool in a "Rube Goldberg" (dating myself) kind of way.
 
 
"-Where's junior?"
"-He's in that run down outhouse over there, mama."
"-That's not an outhouse, that's our sun altar..."
 
Firesign Theater