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newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Rick Blechta <rick@...> wrote:
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> On Dec 10, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Sean wrote:
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> > Hey to any members that might live in this area.
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> > I'm going to be there in Alberquerque Dec 17-19 (next Thursday through Saturday) for the New Mexico Bowl. My days that have free time are the 17th and 18th, as 19th is bowl day and I'm in the Fresno State Marching Band.
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> > Care to hang out? I've never actually seen or played a Mellotron before.
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> > Send me an email before Wednesday if you're down to hangout.
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> Do you mean to say the Fresno State Marching Band doesn't use the infamous Mellotron 400m (for marching) that was a Streetly staple for the American football market back in the early '70s? What kind of school do you go to?
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> ;)
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A dull one. :D
We do however march one golowbaphone. One of our bass 'bonists cut the bell off of his bass 'bone and attached a french horn bell to it. He had to rewrap the F and B triggers because they no longer cleared the bell. The thing is... an abomination (but it's soooo kewl)
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This year we did try to break out our director's arrangement of Kashmir. Apparently my fellows don't know much of the Zep and we played it so square our director nixed it.
Otherwise I was going to try to talk him into letting me come into the studio after the recording of Kashmir was done and dub over the MkII violin part using my samples.
Is it just me or does the Mellotron part in that tune just sound terrible? It's thin but without the pleasing qualities of scratchiness like on Graham Bond recordings or Giles, Giles, Fripp. Myself I'd rather it have the lovely rich sound of Ian McDonald's MkII.