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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...'.
Well, I am actually writing for list members... No-one else is reading this stuff!
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.
Doubtless, but as someone else said (Mark?), how many people REALLY care about tape-replay instruments? I'm pleased she's made the film, but I'm not sure how many people are going to be interested in the 'outside world'. I have no problem with the contemporary musicians angle - the footage of Patrick Warren (?) 'playing' his Chamby's drive-wheel was fab.