Mellotronists

For awhile after Hawken left, the Strawbs apparently toured with two 
journeymen keyboard players--I recall seeing the Strawbs with Gentle 
Giant in Seattle's Moore Theater & that's the way it looked...it was 
too funny. Cousins would say what song the band was about to play, 
and have to wait for the two keyboard players to find the right page 
in the set list music books, and they would both look up to Cousins 
when they were on the right page. And Cousins blathered and swaggered 
the whole time...looking like he was going to topple off the stage 
into the front row. In the post Wakeman/Weaver/Hawken days, the 
Strawbs never really had a set-in-stone official keyboard player, did 
they? And by the way, Gentle Giant were GREAT!