Jon!!
Congrats on the accolades...used to get great response when I played 'Nights'
also. I used to drag my M2 Chamberlin out for those gigs.....Break a leg, Jon!
(or an arm...or both) -- "bring out the real thing"!! More awareness of the
real thing is good for the "sport".
Vance
JS wrote:
> > anyway, where is everyone?
>
> I, for one, have been working my ass off trying to pack about 70 new songs
> into my head, heart, and hands in the space of about six weeks. I have
> joined a fantastic new band since my old bandmates all decided to pack it in
> and give up playing, and have persuaded the new band to do a few songs near
> and dear to me. The first one of my imported songs was "Nights in White
> Satin" in which I play a custom arrangement of my own creation which
> includes the entire orchestral intro, and an abbreviated version of the
> orchestral ending, as well as all of the Mellotron (NOT ON THE REAL THING)
> and orchestral parts (and flute solo) in the body of the song.
>
> OK, that's the back story. Now, don't get me wrong, this band is very
> accustomed to favorable audience responses, and they got to the point of
> being one of the highest-paid and most regularly booked bands in the area
> just fine without me, but...
>
> This song is amazing. We really do play it very well and it (in the seven
> or eight times we have played it) ALWAYS gets long, loud applause and
> screams, but...
>
> We played it last night as a sound check song, sloppily...
>
> And got a STANDING OVATION. For a SOUND CHECK. And everybody comes up to
> me whenever our next break is and praises that specific song and the
> authenticity of my sounds. I have never in my 30-plus years of performing
> had a reaction to a song like I am getting with this one.
>
> Proving once again the power of the music of Mellotrons. I shudder to think
> what would happen if I started bringing out the real thing!
>
> Jon E Salley
> MiloJohnson@...
> M400 #886
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