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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Genesis Fireside Song

From: Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@gmail.com>
Date: 2009-03-06

that's news to me! So maybe it's not strings then, (it's used for something else)
or Greenslade is playing it - doing the string arrangement? It was a foreign release version I'm referring to that mentioned it - maybe dating from the 70's.
 
 
It was common back then to list "string arrangements" and not Mellotron or Chamberlin when trying to avoid the squabbles with the musicians union
 
Two examples are What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) and Nightwalker (Gino Vannelli) both mention string arrangements but have Chamberlin strings / other stuff  mixed in as well.
 
 
Trivial I guess!
 


 
On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:55 AM, marabus <marabus@verizon.net> wrote:

Tony didn't use a Tron until Trepass.The string arrangements were
actually done by Arthur Greenslade.
Pete



Chris Dale wrote:
> An early issue of that album lists "mellotron" in the credits. So your
> saved.
>