Mellotronists

It has been my opinion for years that doing the keyboard player thing is
very much like the Wizard of Oz - the act of playing electronic keyboards in
itself is a magic trick, a feat of "trompe l'oreille" in and of itself - if
you try to sound like a real orchestra, you don't, but if you try to just
fill the mix-space of an orchestra, people say it sounds like one.  "Pay no
heed to the man behind the curtain," you know?

With that in mind, it seems to me it behooves keyboardists who are trying to
fill in that kind proggy role to shut the hell up and let the "magician" or
"technician" image speak for them instead of opening their mouth and
demonstrating their feet of (birotronic) clay.  However, if you're one of
the ones that don't manage to stay silent, you can always blame it on the
constant exposure to the high harmonics from string sounds that scrambles
our brain cells as the years go by.  Or the Glenfiddich.

Besides, it's so hard to maintain one's Merlin-like persona when you're
screaming "Wassup, Cincinnati!  Are you ready for some fuckin' rock and
roll???" into a microphone...

Jon E Salley
MiloJohnson@...
M400 #886


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> and since then? "I called it 'onion', because it made me cry." but rick's
> stand-up-hosting sense of humour prevails and it's once more into battle.
any
> english gigs planned?
>