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Frank,

Thanks for correcting me.  Shows you "guys" how little I really know about Mellotrons.  But I'm learning, however slowly...  I guess the back of the cabinet fooled me ?  But whatever source of Mellotron samples that were used, sounded very authentic to these ears.  Maybe I have Tinnitus too !  Not that I'm necessarily interested, do you know what is the source of the Mellotron samples that TMB use ?

BTW - my friend who I went to the concert is an acquaintance of Dave Kerzner of IK Multi Media Sampletron who was also at the show and he indirectly introduced me to Dave, who lives somewhere in South Florida.  Dave did not point this (TMBs use of samples) out to me.  Over enthusiastically, I asked / "begged" Dave if there was any possibility if someday in the future, I could visit him and see and hear his Mellotron.  He replied "We don't do that" and walked away.  Oh well...  

With respect to the organ, do they use an M3 ?

Robert

   

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From: "lsf5275@aol.com" <lsf5275@aol.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 2:40 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Musical Box

 

Sadly, Robert, you weren't close to a real 400 lat night either. It's a keyboard controller inside a Mellotron shaped cabinet. I know this, because I've seen it up close and I know that they don't use a real one. I think Pierre Vielleux  was probably the only member/keys player in TMB who actually used one on stage.

 

 

 

 

In a message dated 5/3/2012 2:15:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, rmrmax@yahoo.com writes:

 

Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing The Musical Box perform "The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway" at The Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida.

They were fantastic and paid great attention to detail in every respect; the sound was great too!

Any of you "guys" who like the Gabriel era Genesis who have never seen The Musical Box perform before, I highly recommend you check them out.

For their encore, they played "The Musical Box" and "Watcher of the Skies".  By then, several of the other concert goers who had the better seats on the floor area near the center had left, so I had the opportunity to see them up close.   Their keyboardist had a beautiful black M400 Mellotron and it sounded wonderful to my ears.  An RMI Electric Piano was sitting on top of the Mellotron and another keyboard was sitting on top of the RMI.  He also had an organ that I "think" was a Hammond, but it was not a B3 and I don't believe it was a C3 or  A100 either.  There was a Leslie speaker sitting on the far right of the stage.

I don't remember ever being in such close proximity (approximately 20 feet) to a real Mellotron in all my life; what a thrill it was !

Cheers,

Robert

http://www.5gig.com/The+Musical+Box-tourdates/

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