Mellotronists

I'm a bit slow on the uptake these days.

Last night I sauntered across the road to the local pub where I fully
intended to drink immense and nearly unspeakable amounts of Guinness and
take in the Arsenal -v- Manchester United cliffhanger end-of-the-season
title-clinching match on the big screen there. When I turn up I find the
place *mobbed* with middle-aged people in a variety of states of
clinical decay, all apparently dressed up in chiffon and velvet and in
high spirits. I spotted one chap I knew, so I walked up to him and asked
the purpose of the vast gathering. Surely it couldn't just be the
football?

'Nah', he said, burping a Bailey's in my general direction. 'The Moody
Blues are playing the Usher Hall tonight'.

Those not in the know ought to know that I live in the very centre of
Edinburgh, and within proverbial spitting distance of the Usher Hall,
the premier auditorium in town. Thinking no more of this, I returned to
my Irish brew and concentrated on the Big Match Buildup.

Whilst halfway through my seventh pint - with the place vacant of the
legion of Nearly Dead Moodies fans - it struck me that I really ought to
have rushed over there and spoken to their road crew and asked if the
band fancied playing with a *real Mellotron* instead of the plasticated
bleeping and burping sampling synths they use these days.

At that point, Arsenal scored and things started to go hazy.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/