Mellotronists

In a message dated 3/13/2007 6:01:09 P.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
rick@... writes:

If memory and ears serves, that's a real oboe played by Mssr. Ray Thomas.  
There was no mellotron oboe at that point, and in listening to the recording,  
it sounds to me like the real deal. The percussive sound is "key clack"  
because he must be squeezing the hell out of the poor thing. The pinched  quality of 
the tone also leads me to that  conclusion.



 
Sorry, Rick, but I respectfully beg to differ, and I have an  orchestral 
background as well.  You are correct in that there was no Oboe  sound for the MkII 
at that time.  I think it's been long established that  the "other" Tuesday 
Afternoon sound is Tenor Sax (Station 2, Track 3 on Mike's  standard MkII tapes 
(although live recordings show that Mike only played 3  Violins despite 
having identical tapes on both keyboards -- go figure).   Check it out directly if 
you have both sounds in your SFX m/c.  I first  heard this sound alone playing 
Justin Mayer's MkII and was blown away at the  discovery, having originally 
thought that it was something like muted  trumpet.  I later recorded both 
sounds (the TA intro) when I got the Pinder  CD-ROM and THAT was the sound.  You 
can hear that it's the Tenor Sax  sound more prominently in later recordings 
(e.g., alternate takes, the MFSL  disk).  The new Classic Artists Moodies DVD and 
my interview with Tony  Clarke confirm that Ray's exposure to the oboe 
(bleeding lips and all) was not  until ISOTLC, where he dubbed them "the world's 
smallest orchestra".  Mike  also used the Tenor Sax sound on the break in 
"Evening (Time To Get Away)" on  DOFP, and on "Lazy Day" from OTTOAD.
 
Cheers,
Frank
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