Mellotronists

I saw Yes last week in the Hammersmith Odean (London)
and Wakeman was the worst thing there.

I mean I can cope with Jon Anderson dicking about between
songs like an overweight Keith Chegwin,
or Chris Squire punching the air like someone's dad
pretending to be a rock star, 
but Rick Wakeman murdering all the keyboard part using crap
digital preset sounds was more of a No than a Yes,
frankly.. 

 --- Michael Peters <mpeters@...> wrote: > I saw Yes
yesterday night in Bonn/Germany. With Rick
> Wakeman at the
> keyboards, they played mostly the classic tunes. They
> were in great form - a
> fun concert.
> 
> I was somewhat disappointed though that Wakeman didn't
> use Mellotron sounds.
> I wouldn't have expected to see a real Tron on stage but
> at least he could
> have used a sampler to play the original sounds. Instead
> he used synthesized
> sounds that were close, but only close, to Tron sounds.
> To me, the Mellotron
> strings are an integral part of the magic of the classic
> Yes material. Rick
> Wakeman doesn't seem to feel the same way. Oh well.
> 
> Now I'm looking forward to see the Musical Box who'll
> come to Germany in
> October.
> 
> -Michael (# 000)
> 

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