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That is brilliant Mike even better than NIWS!
--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com,Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@ ...> wrote:
>
> http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/ private/Epitaph- Reworked. mp3
>
> markpringnz wrote:
> >
> >
> > Apparently in the 50th anniversary edition the mellotron willbe
> > replaced with a kazoo.
> >
> > --- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
> > <mailto:newmellotro ngroup%40yahoogr oups.com> ,Mike Dickson
> > <mike.dickson@ > wrote:
> > >
> > > This may sound like heresy....
> > >
> > > Does anyone else have the new 40th anniversary editionof 'In The Court
> > > of the Crimson King'? I do (as you may expect) andbelieve it or not,
> > > what has been done to it in terms of sonic quality isastounding. It's
> > > even better than the 30th anniversary edition (which Ithought was
> > > outstanding) and comes with some really good extras too.
> > >
> > > But.
> > >
> > > To me, the biggie on this album was always 'Epitaph'. Itwas really
> > this
> > > track that showed me the way and pointed me at a styleof music I don't
> > > think anyone else in the genre has come /close /toequalling. And it
> > was
> > > always the Mellotron that did it. Everything else in thetrack was
> > > great, but the piercing shreik of the Mellotronpropelled it from being
> > > a /fairly/ standard minor key tune into something reallymagical.
> > >
> > > Which begs the question: /what the shiny blue fuck hashappened
> > here? /I
> > > was listening to the track again today having had afeeling of loss
> > in a
> > > couple of previous listens, and have suddenly found outwhere it was
> > > coming from. Or not. At the close of the first chorusthe Mellotron
> > > climbs to the top E as well all know...and never getsthere. The
> > note is
> > > /not there/. One note. Big deal, you may say, but it isa /sublime
> > > /note. As Fripp himself has droned, you '/can play anynote they like
> > > provided it's the right one/'. And this is the rightone. It's sweet
> > and
> > > perfect and rounds off the chorus perfectly. So why isit omitted. It's
> > > even in tune!
> > >
> > > Worse is to come. /That pitch bend. /My 14 year old jawdropped on
> > > hearing it for the first time. I think I destroyed myfirst copy by
> > > dropping the needle onto at point again and again andagain. It is a
> > > fantastic, blood-curdling hair-on-the- back-of-the- neckexperience. And
> > > on the 40th anniversary set it is /sludged out/. Thecrescendo
> > behind it
> > > absolutely overwhelms it to the extent that you can hearthe trick; one
> > > Mellotron plays a crescendo climbing 'flat' to E-minorwhilst the other
> > > one bends up to it. Expert fading on the originalensured that the
> > > /effect /was heard but that the squeak of stringsratcheted up like
> > that
> > > /was not/. It's a superb moment. And you can barely hearit on the new
> > > release.
> > >
> > > Has anyone else noticed this or any other weirdness/It's the only
> > track
> > > I have listened to in such detail so far, which makes mea tad scared
> > > for the rest now. Actually, I'm playing it now and theclarity of the
> > > piece now makes it sound like Mike Giles banging ontimpani in a
> > studio,
> > > not the far-off and distant /sound of doom /that I knowso well. Maybe
> > > less is nore. Perhaps Fripp has /tinkered beyond./Perhaps I'll ask him.
> > >
> > > Musical choices aside, the sound quality is to be heardand
> > disbelieved.
> > > A friend with a good 5:1 system says that 21CSM is likehaving the band
> > > play in your front room. It's that good.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> > >
> > > Free Music Project: http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/
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> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
>
> Free Music Project: http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/
> Or http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson
> Or http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson
> Or http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson
>
-- 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