Mellotronists

On 3/3/03 7:52 AM, William Gagliani wrote:

>(the Leon Russell post, very interesting) leads me to ask something I've 
>wanted to know for a long time, and I don't remember seeing it here. 
>There's no direct connection, but I want to know if there is tron (one of 
>the strings tapes) on Bob Seger's "Turn the Page"? Sure sounds like it to 
>me, though I'm not an expert (and not a tron owner, either).

oh yeah... that's the real deal.  I remember thinking in the 70's when 
this came out: "how did they get that sound?"

>Also, I just bought "Inhaling Green" by Nick Magnus and it's excellent! 
>Very cinematic, sweeping music, and lots of great rock instrumentals. I 
>know Mr. Magnus has been on this list, and I wondered whether I was hearing 
>his tron on the CD, or samples of his tron. Apologies if this has been 
>covered before, but I don't remember that it was.

I asked Nick about this after I got the album, too.  He told me he uses a 
JV1080 w/ an Orchestral expansion and a U220 for the strings along with a 
bit of S770 orchestral samples, and samples of his own tron strings, 
mostly used on "Free the Spirit," "Devil" and Part 3 of "Inhaling Green." 
 It's a great album, I agree!

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