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early Mellotron usage in the USA

2005-01-02 by mellotrongirl

Here we go again--a few months ago, I brought up the suspicion that the 
Steve Miller Band in the late 1960's might have used a Mk 2 on a 
handful of their early Capitol albums (but you all told me they 
recorded these albums in England), and now I find another west coast 
band that might have done the same.

Eclectic Discs out of Canterbury (perhaps most famous right now for  
keeping bands like Caravan and Nektar alive with both new and reissued 
CD's) has reissued the 1968 gem by Touch (with bonus material), and one 
of the new tracks is a monster extruded instrumental drama prog workout 
titled "The Second Coming Of Suzanne (Film Music 1973)" loaded with 
standard flute and strings from what sounds like an M-400. Don Gallucci 
is the keyboard player on this--also a former member of The Kingsman 
back in the early 60's. No mention is made where that track was 
recorded, but Touch has Portland, Oregon roots...so there might be yet 
another M-400 kicking around the Pacific Northwest perhaps unaccounted 
for.

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