Mellotronists

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007, Doug Berg wrote:

> --- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, jeffc@... wrote:
> >>
> >
> > not to pick nits, but kraftwerk's TEE is actually an orchestron,
> and
> > not a mellotron. see:
> > http://www.optigan.com/tidbits.html#6
> >
> > it's an easy one to mistake for a mellotron, and for years that's
> > what i thought it was also. another is popol vuh's "Aguirre". it
> > sounds like a mellotron choir, but it's some oddity called a
> > "choir organ" or something like that [or WAS it?]:
> >
>
>
> >Re:   Thanks for that one Jeff, could that mystery choir be a
> Roland 330 vocorder?



nope.
i own one of those [bought it brand new many years ago] and
i know the sound quite well, and both of those recordings FAR
pre-date the vp-330 vocoder plus. though i DID actually buy it
as a mellotron substitute, thinking i would NEVER be able to
actually own one.


> Back in the radio days when Kraftwerk brought out their 2nd lp, Man
> Machine, we were playing "We Are The Robots" both on air, and in the
> Clubs and got to see them in N.Y. courtest of Capitol, and I
> remember seeing a 400 on stage, or so I thought. But who remembers
> the 70's?  Doug


jeez, i feel like real jerk for pointing this out too,
but "man machine" was not their 2nd lp. radioactivity,
autobahn, ralf and florian all pre-date man machine.
[i think even TEE was the release before that one]
[and there were 2 very rare and somewhat oscure releases
prior to ALL of them, plus the one called "organisation"
which was them before the name kraftwerk was theirs]

sorry man :=)
call me a jerk - it's okay.

i remember the 70s well enough to recall some amazing
drugs back then... but that's all in the distant past.
[hash oil? anyone remembr that stuff?]

i saw them in, i think it was, 1975 at the tower theatre
in upper darby pa, then again [year unknown] for the
computer world tour at a disco in new jersey. the 1975
show is a total blur [thanks to the drugs] so i have
no ideawhat theywere using [and i was not as into the
gear as i am now, or even was just a few years later]
the computer world tour was one in which all the gear
was built into a large semi-circular console, so other
than the "toys" used for pocket calculator, all of it
was totally obscured and hidden. the 1975 show was the
tour they did for autobahn - i recall hearing that track
played IN ITS ENTIRETY [all 22.5 minutes of it!] on a
radio station hear in philadelphia when it was new.
it changed my life forever.
[not necessarily for the better]

...jeff
[who needs to use the rubber conditionaer to annoy
the wife with, but i'll wait until she is over
her cold for maximum impact - see what a jerk i am?]


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