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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotron goes to school

From: Rick Blechta <rick@rickblechta.com>
Date: 2009-09-13


On Sep 13, 2009, at 5:02 PM, Patrick Wright wrote:

Hi,
It was funny, when he brought it in (my dad) he sampled to the class some famous songs with mellotron and when the lyrics started playing in "the court of the crimson king", people started staring at me because they knew I like prog and silly lyrics, so they gave me a glare of, "wow patrick, your strange".

Think of it this way, Patrick: you're ahead of the curve. My two (very hip -- in their own minds, at least) sons though my music was "weird", "strange", "ridiculous". It wasn't until they heard the music live (at one of my book launches) that they understood where the music was coming from. Now they ask me to play some of the recordings.

Cheers,
Rick