The Retro album is also supposed to have all the other older keyboards on it as well - Moogs, Hammonds, Arps, Rhodes, Clavinet etc. - basically a return to the 70's with maybe something sounding like 6 Wives all over again.
I think he's realized that people attribute some of his best music to the compositions he created with those old keyboards. He may not want to talk publicly much about the mellotron because he's aware the story of him burning two in field is a well known one, and perhaps been a source of embarassment.
It might be similar to the awkwardness Tony Banks would have if he said he was using mellotron again and didn't mean all the nasty things he said about the MK 2 in interviews.
Chris
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Sent: Tuesday, January 31, 2006 6:44 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Memotron
In a message dated 1/31/2006 5:12:27 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
tronbros@... writes:
Rick loved it although he'll never admit publically!...........................................DUCK
Yeah? Why is that? Is there some stigma, perhaps? What is he afraid of? I can see the comments now:
"It has bee reported that Rick Wakeman has used a Mellotron on his new recording. What a douche bag."
Or, "... careful analysis of the new Wakeman CD indicates that a 'Mellotron' may have been used in its recording. Is Wakeman losing it?"
Mellotrons... blight or merely a huge pain in the ass? Wakeman wakes the dead. News at 11.
me