Mellotronists

JS wrote:
> As much as an influence as Rick Wakeman has been on me, I have to agree 
> that his audio palette has gotten thinner and wankier as the years have 
> gone by - I really think his work on Going for the One/Tormato was the 
> last time he used good patches, and his brush with Ensoniq gear was 
> especially catastrophic.  Much as I love the guy, and as much as I owe 
> him, I have always felt that it was his association with 
> Anderson/Squire/Howe that really brought out the "Wakeman-ness" in him.  
> Rick, if you're listening, sorry, but you need to go back home to those 
> guys and turn back into Rick again.  I miss Rick.
>  
> The Korg Mono/Poly, however is a MONSTER instrument, incredibly 
> versatile, tremendous oscillator assignment resources, REAL polyphonic 
> portamento, and all controllable in realtime.  I lost mine in my house 
> fire a few years back, and hope to find another one someday (although my 
> insurance company was "persuaded" by my music store that my Roland 
> JD-800 was an "equivalent replacement"!!!!!!!)  I think that the chief 
> problem is that the filters do have a bit of an "asian" tonality to 
> them, but believe me, you get inside of programming the instrument for a 
> few months you can do some unbelievable things with it.  I used mine to 
> emulate Hammonds, cellos, and the "Lucky Man" patch would part your hair 
> from a hundred feet away!  I also used it to double the guitar solo in 
> "Owner of a Lonely Heart" and took advantage of the "chord hold" feature 
> to simulate the octaves/fifths harmonizer program that Trevor Rabin 
> used, and everybody wanted to know how our guitar player achieved "that 
> sound!"
> 
> Jon E Salley
> MiloJohnson@... <mailto:MiloJohnson@...>
> M400 #886


Greg Amov has a very nice Korg Poly61 (pre MIDI) that he's owned for at 
least 15 years, maybe longer.  A very fine synth indeed that he won't part 
with.  He'll be trotting it out a few times on the upcoming Systems Theory 
CD, and uses it to good effect for most of his lead lines on his solo 
album "The Dark Within The Dark".
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Cheers,
SDM -- a 21st century schizoid man
www.systemstheory.net
www.thecleanersystem.com