Mellotronists

On Thursday, March 25, 2004, at 03:29 AM, Colin Crawford wrote:

> Well I for one hate the forking track.... and the band too.
>
> There.  I've said it.
>
> I feel a great weight dropping from my mind... or is it my 
> arse?...........
>
> Cx
>
> http://www.s-club.co.uk
>        Sundae Club*
>    [there ain't no party]
>

I heard from a down-at-the-heels tinker whom I once met on the streets 
of Lower-Upper Blithbury near Rugely, that if you play the intro 
backwards by the light of the full moon when it falls on Midsummer's 
Eve, that the resulting music sounds just like Seiks eht fo Rehctaw, 
which as everyone knows is an ancient Celtic phrase (I think it's 
Cornish) meaning "Don't take silly things in life too seriously".

More importantly, doing the above will supposedly magically cause the 
mixed brass/3 violin sound suddenly and forever TO PLAY PERFECTLY IN 
TUNE even when your mellotron is not turned on! (Martinge swears this 
is true.) It's the reason he and JB drag their Mk I's down to the Twat 
and Handbag, located in the heart of Lower-upper Blithbury near Rugely, 
every Midsummer's Eve -- although I think it's because the publicans at 
this fine drinking establishment offer free pints to anyone who brings 
in a dual keyboard tape replay organ on that particular evening.

We should all get together on the coming Midsummer's Eve at Colins 
place to stage a mass play-in to see if it works. What do you think?

Rick

PS Any complaints should be directed to Fritz Doddy, care of this Yahoo 
Group. (No cats were harmed in the writing of this e-mail.)