Mellotronists

Sounds good to me! So much so that I popped over to CDBaby to order 
a copy.

More samples:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/leerichards

Bernie

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "L. Richards" <surfbeach@...> 
wrote:
>
> Check out this solo multi-lead tune from Ken Leonard and Lee 
Richards from the Moneypit Feb '06 site.
> Flute and choir from Lee's 400, strings and spanish guitar from 
Jerry Korbs Mark1. Just mellotron and Ken's Korg piano.
> Not quite as famous as kraftwerk and King Crimson, but......
> Enjoy
> Aloha from Lee, and M400 #541
> http://kleonard.com/mellotron/vt0206/recording.htm
> 
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: jeffc@... 
>   To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:41 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: Solo trons
> 
> 
>   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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