Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

Part of the union. Quite a catchy little pop song, not to be taken too seriously. If I was able to produce anything as good I would be quite happy and probably somewhat better off! . The main thing for me is to enjoy playing and listening to music. No harm in talking about it for entertainment.

Good luck with trying to interest the world in the mellotron. Much as I love it it is never in my opinion going to be anything other than a "cult" instrument with a small and somewhat obsessive  following, in which I include myself. In my experience most people just don't notice them.  If you do use them, using samples is easier and cheaper and hardly anybody in general population can tell the difference or care if they could.

Lets face it, if the mellotron was as ubiquitous as the piano or the yamaha psr series how many of us would be on this list?

Mark

From: kinchmnusic@aol.com <kinchmusic@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron film in London...
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, September 28, 2009, 11:56 AM

 

All together now........

Oh... You don't get me I'm Part of the Union

You don't get me I'm Part of the Union
You don't get me I'm Part of the Union

'till the day I die. 'till the day I die!

Not even a tron would save this little number!

Andy K


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@ gmail.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:44
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron film in London...

 

Andy Thompson wrote:

>> Indeed, but I believe we had a fairly recent debate on 'popularity in the world outside this list'. Just because someone sells millions of records doesn't mean anyone here's going to like them, or that said records will matter in the long run. They'll make their creators fairly rich and their record companies phenomenally rich(er), but are mostly artistically void. IMHO, of course.<<

Well, Andy - perhaps the point you made ought to have been 'who here gives a monkeys about...'. However, Dianna's film is I suspect not aimed at a small number of enthusiasts here and more at a large market of potentially interested audience. She'll include contemporary musicians because there is a fighting chance that this group of people will have actually have heard of him. I do not imagine the same could be said of The Strawbs.

Mike