Mellotronists

<<Would I use it to perform live?  No... I would sample it and use the 
samples...>>

I've done both, and I prefer having the real thing there just for the... 
uh.... vibe, I guess. and the ritual. parking the bugger on the stage seems sort 
of... decisive. we always find it it's spot before anything else- it has to be 
facing north and on a ley-line or it gets stroppy. and of course, it's right 
in the way of everything else that needs rigging.
these days, though, it ain't so practical for me, because the rest of the 
band live out of town and the rehearsal studio in stockport is three floors up in 
a warehouse. but at least they're our own samples.
gene, you could chip in here and explain how even two or three 400's on the 
same stage (always tempting fate to even have two in the same postal district 
unless it's blithbury..) managed to leave a minimoog redfaced ;-)

duncan, the dirty stop-out/1098, the pilot light