Mellotronists

In a message dated 8/27/02 3:21:05 PM, kinchmusic@... writes:

>I'm heartened by the fact that the tron sample that Ian McDonald 
>used on the Steve Hackett "Tokyo tapes" concert did sound pretty damn good
>to me considering

As I have the DVD version of Tokyo Tapes I can tell you that Ian is not the 
one using the Mellotron samples.  That was the other keyboardist Julian 
Colbeck.  Ian was using some sort of synth string patch and was playing block 
chords while Julian played the main Mellotron riffs.
                                                Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff