Mellotronists

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From: NormLeete@... [mailto:NormLeete@...]
Sent: 20 October 2003 17:40
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: OT-Birotron

Hi Norm

Trivia note: On the YesYears DVD "rockumentary"(their description not mine) there is footage of Wakeman in the studio with two Biros (can't do that with M400s!) stacked as part of his keyboard rig. SO he must have used them in anger at some point...

You can see one stuck on one end of the grand piano in the pics in 'Yesshows'. I had no idea what it was until a year or two back, but having discovered, it's quite obvious.

;

And please can we all stop bickering about the rights and wrongs of playing music written by other people? I know I stuck my two penn'orth in re.TMB, but I'm certainly not anti tribute bands per se, just the ones who either play the material badly (far too many of them), or so precisely that they squeeze all the life out of it. In other words, it's a fine line they walk, and all too few seem to be up to the task. and when it comes down to it, I've found that it's more (artistically) rewarding to play original material, even when you know it's not up to the standard of the 'greats'. All music was new once...

Andy T.