Mellotronists

1/perhaps this list shd be renamed "mentalotronists"  haha ;)

2/regardless of the pros & cons of sampled vs real, real = impractial
for me b/c a/ I haven't got the actual physical space for even an m400
and b/as a 2-piece, it is quite nice to be able to get all yr gear in
the back of, say, an old-style SAAB900S

3/does anyone have that new steve howell CD-rom?  Any good?  the demos
did sound good

4/who/what is Archer Prewitt?  I saw a CD by said artist in HMV
yesterday whilst buying the new VDGG and the new Stereolab box comp
(this = excellent VFM, 3xCD + 1 x DVD for something like 15 quid!) I
noticed either 2 or three of the musicians on the archer prewitt CD
were credited w/mellotron playing, but I'm too poor/have been burned
far too often to buy stuff on spec these days.  any good?  What does
it/he/she/they sound like?

5/the new VDGG in my case at least is a FAULTY CD AARGH.

6/we're looking to play some gigs, and all of the venues we used to
play at have packed in.  We're a 2-piece instrumental prog rock-ish
thing.  Can anyone anywhere in the UK offer us support slot/s after,
say, September this year?  We're kind of mightily frustrated at the
moment.  we aren't prima donnas or hissy fit throwers or anything like
that.  vietgrove@... if so.  Thx.


  
7/worst rompler-tron = the Roland vintage jv card thing.  The original
"vintage keys" is slightly better, the recentish "vintage
pro"/"vintage keys" is a good bit better than any of these IMO.  I
guess that if yer trying to squeeze all yr rom sounds into 32 mb then
even one fully-multisampled tron set is not going to pass go.  If
there is an E-mu CD-ROm containing fully-sampled sets that they drew
the vintage pro samples from, I'd like to hear it!!

x0x0x

Norman Phay
http://www.vietgrove.com