Mellotronists

Thanks, Jim! Wow, great info, and quick, too! :-)  Thanks for confirming 
what I always figured about the Seger. Who played keyboards for him at the 
time? I don't own any Seger, though this is such a great song, I wouldn't 
mind having a copy!

About the Magnus album: Just curious, but why use samples at all when 
there's a real tron around? I assume Nick knows what he's doing (!), so 
maybe he just likes the final result, but that's a bit surprising... 
although I suppose the sound's fattened up a lot with that many sources.

Really great stuff on his album, and some of it reminded me a little of 
Alan Parsons' instrumentals from the Project days (as a comparison point), 
and a little bit from the post-Project Parsons/Woolson album Freudiana. I 
particularly loved the bits that sounded a bit like Gregorian chant ... any 
tron there? I know the female voice is real, but what about the males?

Bill

At 08:02 AM 3/3/2003 -0800, you wrote:
>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!
>
>jim/m400#680
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