Mellotronists

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin G Crawford [mailto:g-colin.crawford@...]
Sent: 16 May 2002 20:04
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] EAR WAX (OMD/non-prog)


Colin


After that (circa 1984) they started using Emulators in a more conventional
manner, the music started to sound "digital" and the thematic material went
"off" a bit, "Junk Culture" being the appropriately named album from that
year. Stuffed full of Prophet 5, OBX and other instruments thankfully of a
past era. How could I ever have thought them "cool"?


Are you SURE? I LUST after a Prophet-5! Not all analogue polys were great,
but you can't go wrong with either Sequential or Oberheim in my book...


Andy McCluskey of OMD is the man behind current teenybop sensation "Atomic
Kitten"... In fact, listen carefully..... I'm sure that he's using up old
unrecorded OMD songs in the process. What is the betting that he still has
his old Mellotron still going strong somewhere, and it will feature on one
of the cute girlie band's tracks in the future? Also, what is the betting
that his Emulator is now scrap?!


Well... I've traced a reference to an outfit called The Listening Pool, who
put out an album called 'Still Life' around '94. Paul Humphreys, not Andy
McCluskey, is the main geezer, and apparently there's some 'Tron on it.
Anyone out there heard it? So maybe it ended up in the Humphreys camp. Then
again, if you say they had both a Mellotron and a Novatron...

Andy T.
M400 #1145

http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/