Archive of the former Yahoo!Groups mailing list: The Mellotron Group

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From: tony1

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 5:53 PM

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron

Yes he is, just doesn't "do it" for me.

Hard for 1 guy to carry the band.

Tony1

 

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From: fdoddy@aol.com

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 4:38 PM

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron

 

Weird pairing...

never a real Fleetwood fan either, but Lindsey Buckingham really is a brilliant guitarist.


fritz

-----Original Message-----
From: tony1 <atm655@verizon. net>
To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
Sent: Mon, Aug 9, 2010 3:54 pm
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron

 

I saw Triumvirat open for Fleetwood Mac, who I never cared for anyway.

Wasn't there to see them, but Triumvirat were tight as Hell.

 

Tony1

 

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From: ceccles_ca

To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com

Sent: Monday, August 09, 2010 1:14 PM

Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron

 

Hans-Jürgen's Triumvirat - A good example of copying someone else's sound. Fortunately they had talent and wrote a few unique songs.

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> "...something nobody heard before"....is a request I get constantly from my commercial clients...and you get 5 hours to create it. No thank you!
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> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@ ...>
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> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: New Digital Mellotron
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> I now wonder if trying to emulate other peoples sounds isreally that satisfying, might be better to come up with somethingnobody has heard before, when my tron is back in action I'm planning tofeed the output through my microkorg or monotron for what I hope willbe some interesting sounds.
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> My thoughts exactly. Why copy someone else's 'signature sound'; whenyou can find your own?
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