Mellotronists

Jerry Korb wrote:

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> Rick Blechta wrote:
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>>I got Jerry beat, but it was a 400 that I later sold after I bought the
>>FX console: late January 1973. I've had the FX console since April of
>>'74.               Rick
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>>On Monday, January 5, 2004, at 06:32 PM, tony wrote:
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>>>I bought #510 in 1975   a close second?     Tony
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> Jerry Korb originally wrote:
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>>>>Proud to hint at my age, I got my M400 new in July-1973 , I was
>>>>age 19.  A full head of hair,bsmt. full of ultraviolet glow posters,
>>>>incense, and prog-rock music and the Tron in the bsmt.music room.
>>>>
>>>>"What's wrong with that kid ?"  .....Was a regular comment from
>>>>my father.
>>>>
>>>>Anybody on this list  and still own their Tron(s) from the late 60's
>>>
>>>??
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>>>>Mellotron Lifers, stand-up and be counted !!  Cheers,  JK
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> I had to add the following. These gentlemen aren't on the list,
> but their decades of Tron ownership should be recognized.
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> Larry "Synergy" Fast  :    purch.May 1973   M400/725
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> Mike Lutgen, of  "Leviathan"  purch. M400  March 1972  .
> Later sold it approx. 1995 .
> 
> It was Mike Lutgen who provided my "first-contact" with
> a Mellotron in August-1972 during a local concert in my
> former borough of Wood-Ridge,NJ .
> 
> Any more Tron "lifers" still silently lurking out-there??  ......JK

Leviathan.  Now there's a name that doesn't come up often.  Not bad at all 
in a proto-prog meets Kansas/Uriah Heep with tron sort of way.  After 
years of trying to find it again on LP, I found a CD reissue about 4 years 
ago.  It held up better than I thought it would after 25 years.
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