Mellotronists

Tell us the story again about how a young Rick Wakeman, who laboured in 
the fields of western Mississippi picking cotton, left the tin-roofed 
shack of his share cropper parents and made his way, at the age of nine, 
to New Orleans, where he picked up classical European influences while 
playing organ nightly in various bars and a certain French Quarter 
bordello, before being forced to leave the city after a fellow musician 
was accidentally killed in a drunken argument over a leslie cabinet.  He 
worked his way north to St. Louis and ultimately Chicago, where he put 
together  an unwieldy combo and after a long club residency became known 
as the father of that most curious and beloved musical style, Delta Prog.

j. barrick, folkways musicologist


zappaboggs wrote:
> Note to self:
>  
> Call the guys...  We are forming a Blues/Prog band...  Or a Prog/Blues 
> band...
>  
> "Nothing can change the shape of things to come."
before fleeing the city after accidentally killing a man in a drunken 
fight over a leslie cabinet