Mellotronists

While surfing the channels last night I happened to come upon a
documentary film on the local public station called "Off the Charts;
The Song Poem Story".  It's about the folks who write up lyrics and
send them in to musicians who quickly write, arrange, record and
produce records from them.

http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/offthecharts/

Sure enough, this is the very film that guy who was forwarded to this
list a year ago was working on.  Jamie Meltzer.  Mellotrons were used
by some of the more prolific musicians in the Song Poem business and
he was asking for a Mellotron owner in the Bay area to offer their
instrument to be filmed.  (I turned him down because I was really busy
at the time, I'd never heard of the guy, I'm a little wary of
filmmakers in general, and I was barely familiar with song poems at
all.)

The film was made in that Michael Moore / Daily Show documentary style
where you just film your subject while they hang themselves.  So it
was really funny in that way.

And there was a nice couple minutes dedicated to the Mellotron.  

Check your local listings!


  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
don@...
http://www.till.com