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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron is dark and creepy?

From: Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@gmail.com>
Date: 2010-03-29

How about:
 
 
One In A Million - Giles Giles Fripp
 
Ha Ha Said The Clown - Manfred Mann
 
Drilling A Home - George Harrison
 
 


 
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

No! Listened to it again it's cheerful but creepy.


--- On Sat, 3/27/10, Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron is dark and creepy?
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:49 PM


 

Yes! I really like the tron solo, played in a very untron way.

--- On Sat, 3/27/10, Sean <fourtytwominds@ yahoo.com> wrote:

From: Sean <fourtytwominds@ yahoo.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Mellotron is dark and creepy?
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Date: Saturday, March 27, 2010, 12:37 PM

 

What about Golf Girl from Caravan's Land of Grey and Pink album? That's cheery tron.

-Sean

--- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, Mark Pring <markpringnz@ ...> wrote:
>
> Just had this comment posted on my youtube site regarding a short piece posted there:
> "mellotron is a dark creepy instrument. sounds like dead bodies are about to pop out the floor"
> A good description of the piece, but a bit hard on the tron although I can't think of any really happy cheerful mellotron music offhand.
> Mark
>