From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> Date: 2010-02-15
I've read someplace that he 'didn't believe in stealing other people'smusic from them' which is what he thought the Mellotron did.Considering that he appropriated (and desecrated) so much by Copland,Ives, etc etc that seems to be a fairly wild thing for even ∗him∗ tosay.
He used one once though on a Nice record. Can't remember the title;something about 'apples' and 'the moon'. Bloody awful, as you mayexpect.
william Beith wrote:
One queston I never asked Emerson when I interviewed him for amagazine- Why did he never use a mellotron?