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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Court

From: fdoddy@aol.com
Date: 2009-10-17

dude, you need a dog or a different hobby or something.  How about some garden tools or new running shoes?



-----Original Message-----

From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com>

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sat, Oct 17, 2009 3:03 am

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Court


 
There is a market in this....


http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/ private/Court% 20Reworked. mp3


As interpreted on Tibetian Signing Bowls.



markpringnz wrote:
 
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/

> > <http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/>

> > > Or http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson

> > <http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson>

> > > Or http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson<http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson>

> > > Or http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson

> > <http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson>

> > >

> >

> >

>

> --

> 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, 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