On Dec 11, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Sean wrote:
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.
Sean,
Have you ever seen or played a cimbasso? They are pretty amazing -- and amazing-looking instruments. We should record one for the mellotron sound library!
The mellotron in "Kashmir" does sound pretty poor. Ian knows how to get a great sound out of a mellotron. Fripp's later recordings sound pretty good, too.
Actually, we should get Streetly or Markus to offer a mellotron with a cashmere finish. It would probably help keep it warm...
Rick