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> What was the band, Tony? Any recordings?
> Andy T.
We were called The History Of Gardening - as far as influences go, we
sounded like a cross between The Damned, The Bonzos, Gong and King
Crimson if you can imagine that! I think the closest we got to any
sort of 'fame' (if that's the right word) was having some of our tapes
reviewed in The Organ magazine in the late 80s :) ....
There are several recordings of our stuff, but right now they're all
still in their original cassette format. One day soon though, I'm
aiming to transfer them to CD, or mp3 at least!
>
> BTW, picked mine up in a Fiesta when I bought it. :-)
>
Ahh, so that makes two Fiestas with dodgy suspensions after carrying
trons then! ;) - No actually our 'group Fiesta' seemed to cope quite
well with driving my tron around all the gigs we did at the time.
Speaking of when you bought yours, I think I remember your story of
when you went to pick that up - you got yours out of the back of the
Melody Maker as well, didn't you?
Tony S
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Tony Swettenham
> To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 1:41 PM
> Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: A good time for Mellotronists
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> Exactly - even if there were samples available at that time, I
knew I had to have the real thing and nothing else would do. (Luckily
my then fellow band members didn't mind driving it around in a Ford
Fiesta to our gigs and recording sessions, but with us being primarily
into a mixture of psychedelic/prog stuff at the time, they liked
having it in our setup almost as much as I did, which made life a lot
easier!)
>
> What was the band, Tony? Any recordings?
> Andy T.
>
> BTW, picked mine up in a Fiesta when I bought it. :-)
>