Mellotronists

Dear All

On the subject of whether Peter Gabriel owns a 'Tron... I very much expect
he does. An anecdote recounted to me by Julian Cope (a true 'Tron devotee,
he has a fluorescent orange 400 painstakingly hand crafted by the Tronbros
... Is he on this list!?) a year or so ago told the tale of a conversation
between himself and the great Mr. G, in which Peter Gabriel commented,

"Oh you have a Mellotron 400?... Oh yes.... Are they the little white ones?"

Strangely, the only keyboard mentioned on the Real World Studios website is
a Yamaha DX7, and they're a load of bells.

CfN!!

C

Have listen to the sound track of Red Planet. Gabriel does a piece called "The
tower that eats people" as the opening and a longer closing/credits theme. If
my ears aren't deceiving me there is a Mellotron used, set to strings. Maybe
it's a sample but I trust him to be fateful.

Tony
#510

-----Original Message-----
From: Colin G Crawford [mailto:g-colin.crawford@...]
Sent: 26 September 2002 00:07
To: mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] Peter Gabriel


On the subject of whether Peter Gabriel owns a 'Tron... I very much expect
he does. An anecdote recounted to me by Julian Cope (a true 'Tron devotee,
he has a fluorescent orange 400 painstakingly hand crafted by the Tronbros
... Is he on this list!?) a year or so ago told the tale of a conversation
between himself and the great Mr. G, in which Peter Gabriel commented,

"Oh you have a Mellotron 400?... Oh yes.... Are they the little white ones?"


However, he'll remember both models from Banks' use of them - he's never
used one before in his solo career, so I suspect he's gone for samples.
Could be wrong...

Andy T.
M400 #1145

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

Dear All,

Real World studios did not have any form of Mellotron in 1999 as I discussed the idea of them sampling mine but it came to nothing...

Norm