Mellotronists

Interesting, Don...I had been hooked up with Sandy Stanton a number of years
ago - wow, actually it's been many years now - in my early days of wanting a
Chamberlin. He had done work with Harry and had been quite the Chamberlin
repair dude in the 50's and 60's in LA. Apparently, from my more recent
web-browsing , I found out he was a Song-Poem artist...an odd phenom of the
50's and 60's - and of course an avid Chamberlinist on his records as was the
case with a few of these folks. What a coincidence - but it was a Chamberlin!

Vance....with my Chamberlin in paradise....

PS - More at www.aspma.com. Also check out the local alternative rag's
article on the documentary with a paragraph on our favorite intruments at
http://www.laweekly.com/ink/03/12/features-sullivan.php.


Don Tillman wrote:

> 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
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