Rick Blechta is a great author, you know.
Gary Brumm wrote:
Thank you Mike forthat great example of an opinion! J
I don’t know RickWakeman personally but being talented and being a twat are not mutuallyexclusive for sure…….
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Personally, I'd quite like to see Rick Wakemanon a bonfire.
Not because of his Mellotron stunt, just because he's a twat.
Gary Brumm wrote:
Movies havecritics…books have critics…music has critics…there is nothing wrong inFrank having an opinion on the film.
Personally I havenot seen the film but if it’s about the Mellotron than I think RickWakeman, who is one of the artists
who made theMellotron famous, should have been in the film. He burned his in abonfire out of frustration from their
unreliability….thatwould have been a good scene for perspective. There is nothing wrongin criticizing this film or any
other and I don’tthink Frank had ant malice in his intent…he was just expressing hisopinion. Haven’t you ever had an
opinion onanything? Do you have to make a film to have an opinion on one?
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I would have liked to see thefilm include...
Perhaps a small sectio n...They have to be in the film...
So if your going to make amovie...
Do you realize that there'svideo out there...
Where's the research I askyou? Where is the perspective.
I think it's really neat thatyou have opinions, Frank, but second-guessing someone who has justcompleted what obviously was a labor of love is kinda cheap. We'regonna be seeing your film when? Skip
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“Mellotrons should be like Harleys”……Greatanalogy Frank!!
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Clay,
Before we closeout this subject, I want to say that some of Chris' points were wellmade. I too think Dianna should have further investigated thebackground a little more. It's not just about Harry Chamberlin orChilton & his partner Irving Talentmaker. There's so much more...
I would haveliked to see the film include more on what lead up to using recordingtape to play back other peoples instruments. Perhaps a small sectio nexplaining how recording tape stores and plays back sound. Actually,I've always wondered how they get the oxide to stick to the tape. Oh,and how the oxide was invented... who thought that up?
When one thinksabout Harry Chamberlin, who doesn't wonder about that garage where hemade his first instruments. Who built the garage? Did Harry's wife(Ethel) ever yell at him to stop fooling with his inventions and washup for lunch?
And Optigans...They have to be in the film so that people know that there was actuallya shittier way to reproduce real instrument sounds for playback on akeyboard than the Mellotron. Where's the fucking perspective? How elsewould people actually know that Harry's technology reached its pinnaclewith the Mellotron and that any attempts to advance beyond that werejust a giant nosedive into a pile of crap.
God love theM4000, but it is, after all just a brand new Edsel with a better motor,stickier tires and a substantially larger trunk (boot). ∗
So if your goingto make a movie about Mellotron, fuck Kanye, tell us more aboutsomething important, like how Harry Chamberlin came up with the idea tohouse the mechanics in a Formica box years before Jimmy Moore stole theidea for his Mellotron.
Was Mattel theonly toy maker to try to build a crappy Mellotron rip off, or wasHasbro thinking of getting into the business as well? Where's theresearch I ask you? Where is the perspective.
Do you realizethat there's video out there of Mattias Olsen playing wine glasses onhis Mellotron? Where does anyone thank Ben F∗∗king Franklin foractually playing music on real wine glasses 250 years before Mattiaseven existed? Where's the perspective?
Mellotrons shouldbe like Harleys... Only old fuckers should have one.
Frank
My Mellotron
My Harley (Yeah,it's a Shovel Head)
∗ I love mine sono one freak out.
In a messagedated 9/29/2009 10:42:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, ecclesreinson@ rogers.comwrites:
--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com,Chris Dale wrote:
> You're lucky I'm not the moderator here. Your sneaky dishonest asswould be gone.
I am BORED to death with this story Chris. Please take your issue withMattias offline. Nobody gives a shit about it here but you.
I will not be removing anyone from this group. Mattias is welcome topost messages here anytime. Hopefully you haven't frightened him away.
Clay
-- Mike Dickson, EdinburghFree Music Project: http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/ Or http://www.last.fm/music/Mike+DicksonOr http://soundcloud.com/mikedicksonOr http://www.planetmellotron.com/revd4.htm#mikedickson