Mellotronists

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "charel196" <charel196@...> 
wrote:
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> I don't wanna give anyone the wrong idea here. As a musician 
myself, I DID enjoy the show 
> and their pretty accurate Genesis renditions. I just found myself 
kind of "distant" and not 
> emotionally connected like seeing the real deal. I've felt this 
with just about any "tribute" 
> act I've ever seen. Even in "cover" bands I've played 
with....there's more emotional flow 
> when I'm performing original material than someone else's song, 
which I think is only 
> natural. I've been in bands that played 
Genesis,Crimson,Moodies,Strawbs...and while those 
> songs are a lot more fun to play for me than, say, Bob Seger or 
Rolling Stones....I still feel 
> more of that "butt kicking" energy start rolling when an original 
song is performed. Any 
> other musicians here feel the same way? 


No need to apologize although you have permanently etched that 
analogy on my hard drive, thanks.  But really they did a good job 
for what they do.  We only saw one other "cover band" here- Seconds 
Out and here again a first time experience I thought they were good 
not great but the second time we saw them it really wasn't anything 
special, but the location was terrible, a punk rock club in the 
flats called the Odeon, I think there were only a dozen seats in the 
whole place so most stood for 2+ hours, what a dump.  I also thought 
the staging backdrops at MB added something extra, and anyone who 
watched the video of Genesis Oxford 73 show could see Mb did come 
close.  
I've often wondered how performers cope with doing the same sets 
over night after night and after time how emotional can they get? 
Seems the spark of freshness tends to diminish with time. Now I 
cannot hold a candle to what you have done musically, late this 
summer I had a chance to take my tron out and play with a band, 
never done this before, but the band does oldies, doo wop etc. again 
other peoples material and the last place you would expect to hear a 
tron. Now you know you have your good and not so good moments as a 
group but every once in awhile you have a great one and at our last 
outing for the season, yeah that was a "butt kicking" deal for me 
although I cannot explain why, its like something that you had 
inside and were'nt aware of seems to surface and take control. It's 
fulfillment with a sense of accomplishment and expression that seems 
to win out against just playing notes regardless of whose material 
it is and the talent that was given to each of us should be 
cherished and not taken for granted. Otherwise we would be playing 
hip-hop!!! Sorry for carrying on,  Doug  M400#703
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