Mellotronists

It's Reginald KILBY.


--- chris.dale@... wrote:
> Well, I'm not really sure about this.
> 
> 
> An old friend and music director I worked with (Rick
> Blechta met him at my wedding) who was heavily into
> the Beatles and has pretty much every Beatle album,
> book, biography, bootleg, CD, cassette, 8 track,
> toy, apple record, video, film etc.,etc,etc, told me
> that Lennon cut up some reels of tape with recorded
> calliopes on them, threw them up in the air, and
> taped them back together again. The song is
> apparently based on an old circus poster
> advertisement, with some of the lyrics taken from
> the poster itself.
> 
> I do agree about the sound effects in Back In The
> U.S.S.R. and throughout the White Album, but there
> is no tron in I Am The Walrus. 
> 
> There is a connection though - the player of the
> cellos in  "Walrus" is Reginald Kirby - the same
> individual who recorded his cello for the M400 cello
> sound. So it's a pretty close guess anyway.
> 
> Chris  
>   ----- Original Message ----- 
>   From: brian carney 
>   To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com 
>   Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 12:15 AM
>   Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] RE: the beatles,
> cheap trick and on.........
> 
> 
> 
>   I still swear there is Mellotron flute in "Mr.
> Kite."  The opening and turnaround melody in the
> verse (right channel). You can hear the pop and
> keyclick.  That is the only appearance, the rest of
> the song is all harmonium (real) and I believe
> accordian (real) holds down the bottom (and was the
> calliope an electric version)?  Also, I remember
> Dave Kean saying that there is tron mixed with real
> strings in "I Am the Walrus."  The jet on "Back in
> the USSR" is tron.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>   >From: phlizmo@... 
>   >To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com 
>   >Subject: [Mellotronists] RE: the beatles, cheap
> trick and on......... 
>   >Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 04:01:39 -0500 
>   > 
>   > 
>   >-- 
>   >derrick espino 
>   >phlizmo@... - email 
>   >(925) 695-2020 x7367 - voicemail/fax 
>   > 
>   > 
>   >Okay , 
>   >the cool stringy reverb on the Lovley rita Piano
> break, as described by Geoff Emerick the first
> Engineer on the sessions, was a piece of sticky tape
> on the capstan of a tape machine to wobble the echo
> return. Thats what he says. having said that hearing
> your view on the 3 violins theory makes it click a
> bit more.. that is to me what that sounds like.. now
> i believe that according to the new Beatle gear
> book, or whatever its called, john did purchase his
> MK II in 1965.. If ANY tron appears on Tomorow Never
> Knows it is simply because all the loops that were
> used were made at HOME by each of the Beatles
> themselves... wanting to have something curious to
> add to the mix i am sure John used his Mellotron for
> some of it. basically in the studio , all the
> Beatles brought in were a bunch of 1/4 inch reels of
> various effects.. From every beatle source I have
> read, it has been maintained that NO mellotron was
> used anywhere on SGT. Peppers.. THe Harmonium in Mr.
> Kite is real Because George Martin Played it and
> said that after so many takes of pumping the organ
> he colapsed on the studio floor exhausted... There
> is a tooty/flute like organ that he also plays on
> the track which you can hear very clearly in the end
> of the song during the Psychedelic swirl, on the
> left channel I believe opposite of the FX(The
> Anthology version is much clearer.. )The Brass on
> goodmorning is definitley the real deal because
> Geoff has gone on record stating that the Beatles
> wanted a special sound so they put mikes right
> inside the Bells of the Saxes..As for he Mystery
> sounds of Strawberry Fields, the clicking on and off
> sound has stumped me forever.. when i got hold of
> the anthology version, I thought it was maybe
> someone flicking a toggle switch on their guitar..
> Maybe it is mellotron.. what i wanna know is, what
> are the Swoops being played with on the Anthology
> version???????? It sounds like a Elec guitar slide
> thing.. but After listening more it began to sound
> like a mellotron bit.. I think that there is some
> Mellotron on Glass Onion from the anthology.. During
> those "..place you can go-oo-whoah" sections..that
> swoopy string bit that was later replaced with a
> real string section after George Martin returned
> from holidy and heard "Johns MiX".. I really doubt
> any tron was used on Sgt peppers though i know folks
> believe that there is at least tron FX. As for cheap
> Trick, i know for a fact that they own a Mellotron
> so i am sure they used one somewhere. A few years
> back i was talkting with Jack Douglas who produced
> their frist album and Budokan, as well as Aerosmith,
> The Who, and of course John Lennon, and he said that
> they, (cheap Trick) had recently opened up their
> mellotron case and pulled out the instrument to
> investigate.. "Then this fell out" he told me as he,
> from his pocket, produced a pick from their 1978
> tour.. Of course Tron on Aerosmith "dream on".. but
> we all know that.As of last week Jack is still
> convinced that tron was used on Sgt Peppers.. when
> he saw my MK VI he asked, "do you have the
> chickens?" 
>   >Derrick Espino 
>   > 
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