I think it was most likely the texture that Mark was
referring to. It's not the same song by any means,
but when we're kids we latch on quite powerfully to
certain resonances.
My obsession with the Mellotron began in very much the
same way.
-Jack
--- James Bailey <
jimab@rogers.com> wrote:
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Jack
> Younger <e4103s@...>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjK0ION3ZQk
>
> Wow! Thanks for posting that, Jack. Sure took me
> back. Close to 50
> years now. Thanks also to Mark for the original
> post. Can't say I
> immediately caught the Moonchild reference, but was
> not listening under
> the best of conditions, so will have to try again
> later.
>
> BTW, if anyone out there ever hears of John Zorn's
> project called
> Moonchild, AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE! It's f∗∗king
> awful. They were at
> the recent Victoriaville festival
> (http://www.fimav.qc.ca/en/edition/horaire/). Joey
> Barron is a good
> drummer, and Trevor Dunn was ok on bass, but I could
> certainly do
> without Mike Patton screaming up a lung half the
> time. If there were
> any actual words involved they were totally
> unintelligible. Zorn didn't
> even play, just ran the mixing desk (oh, apart from
> the "encore" when
> he came out and flailed his arms about in a
> half-assed attempt at
> conducting. The only thing worse was his other
> project, the night
> before called "The Dreamers". Boring and mostly
> tedious lounge music.
> At least Zorn was on stage for that one, though all
> he did was
> more "conducting" - which hardly seemed necessary -
> from a chair, and
> only played on one piece, for about three minutes,
> max. Total waste of
> time if you ask me (you didn't? Oh, sorry. Back to
> 'trons, then).
>
> Jim Bailey
>
>