Mellotronists

True. Girls are always a welcome site.

 

But even in the old days the Moodies had a tough time replicating their
vocals live. But the Beatles had the same problem. They were wise enough to
stop performing live when they realized that they could not do justice to
their songs.

 

But you have to hand it to the Moodies. They did a great job back then.
especially when you consider that there were no stage monitors.

 

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From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com]
On Behalf Of John McIntyre
Sent: Sunday, July 29, 2007 3:30 PM
Cc: Mellotronists
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Moodies?

 

My apologies, I am trying to respond to Bruce Daily's message about the 
Moody Blues, but there is some interaction between Yahoogroups mailings 
and my Thunderbird e-mail program that makes editing the prior message 
impossible. Any helpful hints would be appreciated.

Anyway, Bruce said he had seen the Moody Blues in the Patrick Moraz era 
and that the vocals, especially the falsettos, were painful. He asked 
if they ever listened to themselves live. The answer is apparently they 
did as they now utilize female backing vocalists to hit the high notes.

Yeah, they could have sampled the old vocals onto tape and then played 
them back through a Mellotron, but the women look better. (-8

John McIntyre
mcintyre@pa. <mailto:mcintyre%40pa.msu.edu> msu.edu