Andy is right, the tron used on both all of the Simon Dupree recordings and the first self titled Gentle Giant album is a MK II (Kerry Minnear refers in the notes to the new Gentle Giant box set that the original MK was pretty beat up by the time he used it on that first Gentle Giant album and the early recordings contained on "Under Construction.) The M300 appears on "Acquiring the Taste" and "Three Friends", the M400 on "Octopus." The give away M300 sound is also found on recordings (excluding BJH, the Moodies, and Wooly's solo output) on recordings by Frumpy, Earth & Fire, the Dutch band Drama, Ekseption's first five albums before Rick Van Der Linden bought his M400), the Italian band Planetarium's album "Infinity", the French group Nino Rerrer's recording "Metronomie, according to Andy's mellotron list, Fludd's "Cock On" and the earliest M300 recording I am aware of, Boudewijn de Groot's 1968 album "Nacht and Ontij" (for some strange reason M300s seemed to proliferate in the Netherlands.)
lil_guapo11 <lil_guapo11@...> wrote:
The footage shows the M300'S strange shape. Pity it isn't used all
that much! :(
I wonder if this is the M300 that Gentle Giant used?
--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "Andy Thompson"
<andy.thompson@...> wrote:
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "lil_guapo11" <lil_guapo11@...>
> To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Saturday, February 04, 2006 10:50 AM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] Simon Dupree and the Big Sound - Kites live
with
> M300(I think)
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>
http://sonicpollutions.blogspot.com/2006/02/simon-dupree-flies-kites-live-in-1968.html
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> V.cool, although I can only get the bloody audio. :-( That's what
happens
> when you use a six year-old PC.
>
> Andy T.
>
> p.s. Believe it's a MkII.
>
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