Mellotronists

In Los Angeles area: Friday, 14th Feb 10:00 PM on KCET, broadcast ch. 28 or check your cable listings for channel number.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Tillman" <don@...>
To: <mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 12, 2003 12:45 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Off the Charts


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