Mellotronists

Don,

I should have made it clearer that Pierre was the original keyboard 
player in the band and has not played with TMB for a long time. He 
carried two 400s when he was with them. They wanted him to use his 
MkII, as well, but he (rightly) refused since it's in almost mint 
condition. When he left the band, it was decided to move to a sampler 
simply because no one had the ability to keep the mellotrons humming 
under road conditions and they would also had to have carried way too 
many of them to do the various shows properly.

Also, by your thinking, would everyone else in the band have to be 
using exactly the same equipment as Genesis used. There's a big 
difference between having real instruments but faking the playing 
because you aren't good enough, and have to use something out of 
expediency, but being able to play the shit out of the music, which the 
present TMB keyboard player does.

That being said, I wish they did have a real mellotron on stage...

Rick

On Monday, October 20, 2003, at 05:07 AM, Don Tillman wrote:

>    > From: Rick Blechta <rick@...>
>    > Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 10:45:13 -0400
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>    > As a matter of fact, he was rather insulted when I mentioned to
>    > him that you thought some of the playing was faked.
>
> Huh?  The guy is playing a digital sampling keyboard hidden inside a
> fake Mellotron cabinet, and yet he's offended that folks think that
> some of the playing is faked?
>
>   -- Don
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> Don Tillman
> Palo Alto, California
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