Mellotronists

It's always been a mystery to me, why the real thing onstage has that little
extra "something". By all methods of reasoning when you play with a sampler
with the Pinder sounds it seems like it will be 100% "there" in any context.
Or a hammond clone thru a real leslie... sure enough, when you sit in a
theatre and watch a show with the real stuff being used, reality goes ahead
and completely ignores our common-sense deductions and sounds better. Maybe
it's just the knowledge that it's real. Bah - the human mind...

Well Duncan that one evening in Claremont the minimoog certainly wasn't
redfaced - I wonder what the sound company did with their speaker cones the
next day...

- Gene

-----Original Message-----
From: ferrograph@... [mailto:ferrograph@...]
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2003 7:33 PM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [JUNK]Re: RE: [Mellotronists] Mellotron Pioneers


<<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