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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Best mellotron playing ever?

From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>
Date: 2008-11-20

Not sure 100% but it's probably McDonald or Fripp somewhere. Maybe thelast minute and a half of 'Epitaph', or the coda to the otherwiseappaling 'Prince Rupert' or the protesting strings behind the run downon 'The Sailors Tale'. I've also always loved the first Pavlov's DogAlbum.

Incidentally, the PD story is told nicely athttp://pavlovsdogband.tripod.com/pavlov32.html where you can read this:'As Safron recalls: "David played his guitar in the audition and I wasjust about to show him the door when he asked if he could singsomething. It was 'The Wizard' by T-Rex. I had just gotten my passportto tour Europe with Chuck Berry, but when I heard that thingcome out of his mouth I just knew I had to stick with it.'

Mike

Mark Pring wrote:

Question: What track features the best mellotron playing ever?
Answer: She Said from Barclay James Harvest Live, Woolly playing M300astrings on an M300.

Anybody disagree?

Mark


-- Mike Dickson, EdinburghFree Music Project: http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+DicksonOr http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/