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Subject: Re: Sound question

From: "James Bailey" <jimab@rogers.com>
Date: 2009-01-11

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, djacques@... wrote:
>
> I forgot to mention. Ian Mc was pretty rough on the top of the MkII during Mars. He was
banging something on top of it. I bet there were a few marks in the wood.

He must've passed the technique on to Mel Collins. He did the same thing when I saw them
here in Toronto, 11/11/'71. The "something" in that case was a tambourine, and the tune by
then had, of course, been renamed "The Devil's Triangle".

Jim Bailey