Mellotronists

I am I the only one who thinks the Mkii on Caught live is the 
crappyist ever? Being so enamoured of the moodies studio albums 
for their time I was really disappointed with that.
Strangely I was also listening to "Heaven" this weekend and picked 
out the chords. Have you heard "Blood red sun" off the other 
Gracious album for fantastic use of in-your-face Brass?
John

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> kenmerb@... wrote: ..... running a mellotron through a Marshall
> stack.  Sounds great on guitars, not so great on mellotrons.  The
> first concert I ever went to was the Moodies back in 1972, and Mike
> Pinder must have been running his MKII through a stack of amps,
> because it was distorting like hell.  I remember thinking, man - he's
> going to blow something.
> 
> > I can verify he Marshall stack / Mike Pinder connection. I have a
> > photo of the Moodies circa 68/69 from the Shrine Auditorium
> > Exhibition Hall here in LA. The Moodies are on a very small stage.
> > Justin playing his Tele through a Marshall stack. John playing his P
> > Bass through a Marshall stack. Both stacks are on Graeme's left. To
> > his right is a Marshall stack without the head on the top. The head
> > is on top of Mike's Mk II. (Ray's tambourine is on top of the head.)
> > He obviously used the amp settings as well as the volume pedal for
> > controlling effects he created. Listen to Caught Live. The sound is
> > a bit thin because the recording pretty much sucks, but the
> > imagination is not fooled. He does push the amp to distort in a few
> > places.
> 
> If I recall correctly someone on the list said that Mike had told him
> that he always doubled the tron/chamby parts in the studio. Am I
> right?
> 
> Vance
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