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From: "Tony Swettenham" <tonkev66@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 10:44 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: A good time for Mellotronists


> >
> > 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 :) ....

Ah - Sean and Marina are still good friends of mine. The name rings a bell,
now I come to think of it.

> 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!

Aargh! Not the dreaded 'squash 'em flat' format? Since you'll have to get
them into a sensible digital format first, please let me know when I can get
CD-Rs from you...

> > 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?

Didn't we all? :-) I rather excitedly posted the follow-up last autumn,
when I won a 'Tron flightcase on eBay, and it turned out to be the one that
used to belong to my machine... Thoroughly bizarre, but reunited after 20
years! Not that they've been anywhere near each other yet, but you know what
I mean...

Andy