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Subject: Re: New Mellotron Book

From: "Tony Swettenham" <tonkev66@aol.com>
Date: 2008-07-27

So have I - it may have been a very long wait for the book to
materialise, but it's proving to have been worth it so far.
Fascinating stuff.


Regards,

Tony S.


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mike Dickson
<mike.dickson@...> wrote:
>
> I've just today received my copy of Nick Awde's book 'Mellotron: The
> Machine and the Musicians that Revolutionsied Rock'.
>
> It's enormously thick - about 600 pages - and features a large
number of
> interviews with all the usual suspects. It as three notable ommisions
> (by the author's own admission), being Robert Moog (dead), Rick Wakeman
> (busy) and Robert Fripp (on being Fripp). I'm still ploughing through
> it. So far it's an interesting read, even if the author felt the
need to
> interview Tony Banks and Mike Pinder. :-)
>
> Mike
>