My understanding is Steven Wilson is the keeper of the Mellotron... He has used it quite a bit throughout the PT discography and other side projects...
He also brought the Tron to the album Damnation by Opeth (Yes, that extremely noisy cookie monster band)... It's actually a nice listen...
I did ask him once if he thought of bringing it on tour... His comment was "Not with our roadies... They would be swimming in tapes"...
David Davis wrote:
Did Barbeiri ever own his own tron?
I wouldn't have thought he'd have much cash left after
buying the Roland System 700 modular! :-)
The only Japan album with 'tron is 1979's "QUIET LIFE",
I have never seen tron listed on his own equipment lists -
I'd guess the tron on that album came with the studio...
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David Davis
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steve Ball"
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Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 10:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] VIDEO: Gravity Eyelids - MHz Tv - PORCUPINE
TREE live (w/Mellotron Samples?)
>I saw Porcupine Tree live a couple of months ago. The show was opened by
> Fripp doing about 45 minutes of soundscapes (very nice although noisy,
> disrespectful and small crowd) and Barbieri produced some very nice Tron
> sounds from his rig. I couldn't see exactly what he was using (definitely
> not a real Tron) , but I remember reading somewhere that he uses M-Tron.
> He
> also did some Pro-52/Prophet 5 sounds for gmedia (the M-Tron folks).
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> Steve,
> Cincinnati
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> Subject: [Mellotronists] VIDEO: Gravity Eyelids - MHz Tv - PORCUPINE TREE
> live (w/Mellotron Samples?)
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>> Another Tron related link.
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>> http://www.youtube.com/w/Gravity-Eyelids---MHz-Tv---Porcupine-Tree?
>> v=gYU8jl1UzFA&search=porcupine%20tree
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>> Obviously Mellotron samples used here... or? an emulated Mellotron Vs
>> actual samples? P. Tree lists a use of a Mellotron on recent studio
>> records but I wonder if Richard Barbieri(keyboardist) sampled thier own
>> tron or is he using some comercially available Mellotron samples?
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>> Anyone have ideas or knowledge about this?
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>> Cheers
>> A
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