New mellotron book out very soon.......we think.
2007-10-24 by tronbros@aol.com
This is from the Bennett and Bloom catalogue available at their website. NEW ANNOUNCEMENT Mellotron The Machine and the Musicians That Revolutionised Rock by Nick Awde Some of Britain’s most influential musicians, songwriters and producers chart their careers with the Mellotron. Across 20-plus interviews, legendary acts include the Moody Blues, Strawbs, King Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Barclay James Harvest and Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, plus later groups such as I.Q. and Sweden’s The Flower Kings. This Heath Robinson-like machine, built in the UK’s industrial heartland of the Midlands, used banks of pre-recorded tapes to create the world’s first sampler keyboard. It lent its haunting trademark orchestral sounds to such ground-breaking classics as the Beatles’ ‘Strawberry Fields Forever’, the Moody Blues’ ‘Nights in White Satin’, and King Crimson’s avant-garde album In the Court of the Crimson King. By concentrating on the Golden Age of British rock and pop from the late Sixties to the post-Beatles early Seventies, the result is a unique insight into how Mellotron bands – many of them Baby Boomers who grew up in post-World War II austerity – refl ected and shaped the social background to British popular music and established a lasting influence worldwide. Linking this is a thoughtful and often entertaining overview of the development of symphonic and progressive rock bands and how, contrary to popular opinion, they were not killed off by punk but continued instead to adapt and thrive up to the present day. Published by Desert Hearts May 2007, 352 pp., 40 b&w illustrations ISBN 978 1 898948 02 5, hardback, £19.95 Streetly Electronics - All Things Mellotronic _www.mellotronics.com_ (http://www.mellotronics.com/) US Sales East: Jimmy Moore_ JMoore6397@..._ (http://JMoore6397@.../) US Sales West: Paul Cox_ pjc56@..._ (http://pjc56@.../)