Mellotronists

Evening all,

> >
> > PS Did anybody go to the Musical Box gigs in the UK? any good?
> >

> Yep. I we saw them at Sheffield and thought they were brill.

Hear hear :o) Excellent stuff!!!

> Having said that there were plenty of bum notes in there too.

Including one bit in the 'Watcher' intro where he seemed to lose it
completely!

> The "tron" was a mystery. The cabinet perfectly resembled an
> M400 - but the mains cord just disappeared into the hole in the
> back panel and audio cable was taped in with masking tape. ie I
> couldn't see the appropriate plugs and sockets or the rear of the
> power supply though the hole. On close inspection the metalised
> foil stickers on the back that should say "Mellotronics - London"
> and the voltages etc were acrtually bits of blank foil stuck on with
> no printing. ie put there to look right from a distance.

You may be as sad as me John - I made exactly the same observation!

> It could have been a real one - and in places it sounded ok, but
> watcher didn't sound right to me ie rather like a sampler.

Agreed - also (as mentioned earlier on the list) there were 4 sounds used
during the gig - 3Violins/ Brass/ Flutes/ 8V Choir - I think my M400 still
only does 3?

*** I had as good a look at the k/b setup as possible before things
started - spotted Yamaha A3000 sampler in the keyboard rack ??? ***

(Off topic) The Hammond however WAS real - with a lovely old woody organic
warm LESLIE 147/122, replete with glowing valves (whoopee!). Guitarist also
had a matching Leslie stage right. (sorry, I have a thing about Leslies).
Also the ARP Pro-Soloist seemed to vary in authenticity?

Best regards to all,

Paul Marshall - M400 #1380