Mellotronists

You know, Mike isn't stupid, and I can't imagine that he is 
malevolent.  The only option that I have left is that he's in urgent 
and dire need of money to such an extent that he has to take whatever 
way he can to get some, in which case I personally think that we 
should just let him harvest from everybody ELSE and be quietly 
disappointed about it not being the product we were dreaming of 
finding ourselves...

I recall seeing a brief clip of the Moodies long ago on television 
around 1970 or 1971 that showed Mike at a Hammond playing "Tuesday 
Afternoon" and I remember thinking "this CAN'T be right" to myself at 
the time as although I had not yet got a good look at our favorite 
magical instrument I had already been a Hammond player for five or 
six years and knew that they just didn't sound like THAT!