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Are you on DRUGS Chris? If someone wanted to be adventurous liveor in the studio using a new digital Mellotron, there is nothingholding them back.
I'm struggling to think of many of the revered Prog Gods whoused the Mellotron 'adventurously'. It's not a particularly'adventurous' instrument. You can use it up front, play it melodically,harmonise all over the place, and certainly you can process the soundor do whatever else you like with it, but adventurous? You candick about with synths adventurously because you can make them say whatyou want them to say, but a Mellotron string section is always going tosound like a cello, a viola and three violins, all vaguely out of tuneand all sounding monolithic. Ninety nine percent of the peoplewho have put hand to Tron have used it for block chords. Where is theadventure?
It's still a welcome surprise to hear it at all. I heard it on theintro a fairly nondescript pop song a year or so ago while seated inthe dentist's chair and exclaimed 'gucking gell!' as I was having mymouth seen to my an astonished dentist who thought she had accidentallyprobed through a raw nerve.