Mellotronists

By the way,has everyone here seen the 70s documentary movie about the 
Bermuda Triangle with Vincent Price narrating which uses the Crimson 
classic tron fest as the soundtrack? It was so cool ...Vincent 
saying..."they were about to enter the DEVIL'S TRIANGLE..." to the 
sound of Fripp's Mk II.

--- In Mellotronists@y..., "charel196" <charel196@y...> wrote:
> By the way,has everyone here seen the 70s documentary movie about 
the 
> Bermuda Triangle with Vincent Price narrating which uses the 
Crimson 
> classic tron fest as the soundtrack? It was so cool ...Vincent 
> saying..."they were about to enter the DEVIL'S TRIANGLE..." to the 
> sound of Fripp's Mk II.

Yes, I recall this.  It wasn't the greatest documentary, but the 
soundtrack was very very cool.  Fripp may not have anticipated that 
it would be used for such a soundtrack....but it was a perfect fit 
for the documentary.

I also remember I didn't see Gustav Holst appearing in the 
documentary's credits for music.  (Mars and Devil's Triangle have a 
lot in common).

Clay

<< By the way,has everyone here seen the 70s documentary movie about the 
Bermuda Triangle with Vincent Price..........to the sound of Fripp's Mk II >>

good lord yes.... but I didn't know of the crimsons at the time; I think I 
was ten or eleven, and for some reason my dad had brought home a 1/2" mono 
open reel video deck, a shibaden industrial job. later us kids got to play 
with a philips 1500 then a 1700.... but I digress. 
this would've been around the time of the boom in reader's digest serious 
coffee book encyclopedia of all known knowledge, in full colour ("the 
universe", meaning "some astronomy plates and some speculation", "the 
mammals" with humans given a chapter near the back, "the earth" going from 
geology to politics, "the cats" full of more photos, &c&c), and "fantastic 
science" tomes with bionic limbs and cryogenic flasks of dead rich dead 
people... 
and mood-rings.... fantastic artificial fireplaces in glowing plastic.... 
that soundtrack scared the living daylights out of me, and I'm being polite.
I'm guessing our many-taped friend is solely responsible for the bad dreams 
that night.

>>>I also remember I didn't see Gustav Holst appearing in the documentary's 
credits for music.  (Mars and Devil's Triangle have a lot in common)<<<

sid smith's mighty crimsotome attributes this similarity to a concern that 
the actually- intended cover version (stand up keith emerson et al, and take 
the credit for this grand idea.... perhaps bob was having a little riposte 
after being snubbed by the knife-wielding one) would arouse the notoriously 
conservative heirs to the estate of gustav holst. at a guess, the suggestion 
was that his grand-daughter in particular was vexed by the idea of anyone 
taking liberties with interpretation or arrangement. a bit later on, isao 
tomita ran into this and it effectively ended his career as a taken-seriously 
reinterpreter of the classics. same dame. shame. so anyway, fripp and co 
turned the tune upside down or something. still damn scarey.

duncan/m400nr1098, still sulking but suddenly quietly smug about something.

And It showed up in a John Pertwee Doctor Who Episode, as well.
	Phil

"elefantes de papel/ donde el oro es pan/ luche, luche que se van"

In a message dated 10/11/02 5:46:19 AM, wy-mar-ren@... writes:

>And It showed up in a John Pertwee Doctor Who Episode, as well.
>   Phil

Any idea which Jon Pertwee Doctor Who episode it was?  As a Doctor Who fan, I 
must know and check it out.
                                        Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

>
> sid smith's mighty crimsotome attributes this similarity to a
> concern that the actually-intended cover version (stand up keith
> emerson et al, and take the credit for this grand idea....
> perhaps bob was having a little riposte after being snubbed by
> the knife-wielding one) ...
>

What is it Duncan that you have with Emerson ? His name seems
to appear frequently in your posts.

And I heard good reports on the man's performance with reformed
The Nice ...

Just curious,
Arthur

Did I hear that correctly:  "The Nice" have reformed?  New album?  Tour?

<< What is it Duncan that you have with Emerson ? His name seems to appear 
frequently in your posts. >>

steve (elsewhere in my band) is the one who rates him highest, I just enjoy 
his well-above-average ability with the keys and some of his compositions. 
he's also been a very exciting performer at times, sufficiently so to have 
jimi hendrix following his antics with a home-movie camera. he manages best, 
of the three main antiheroes of 70s rock, to avoid coming across as 
unbelievably smug. his bands rocked, where camel and greenslade perhaps just 
dealt with more cerebral matters.... and the elp 'tron caught fire on it's 
own, without any assistance. waiting for the imminent nice book to appear.

duncan/m400nr1098 and some moogs. don't throw them about much.

>
> Did I hear that correctly:  "The Nice" have reformed?
>  New album?  Tour?
>

I'm afraid you have missed that tour:

2nd October - The NICE : Wolverhampton Civic Hall: 01902 552121 
(standing/seated)
3rd October - The NICE : Newcastle - New Tyne Theatre & Opera House: 
0191 232 0899 (seated)
4th October - The NICE : Glasgow - Royal Concert Hall: 0141 353 8000 
(seated)
6th October - The NICE : London - Royal Festival Hall: 020 7960 4242 
(seated)

Earlier this year there was a combined performance of Keith
Emerson & The NICE at the London 100 Club (9 April 2002). Good
coverage of this at:

   http://www.users.waitrose.com/~douganderson/elp/02apr09.htm

Also lots of interesting links. Haven't found reviews of the
October gigs yet.


Arthur
 (... attended one ELP show and one Palmer drum clinic ...)

Arthur commented about my Rock Reviews website:
> Also lots of interesting links. Haven't found reviews of the
> October gigs yet.

There is one of the Newcastle show here:

http://rockreviews.co.uk/elp/nicenewcastle.htm

and I should have my review and pictures of the London show up in a 
few days. A friend is hopefully also going to email me his views on 
the Glasgow show too.

I'm always on the look out for other links to add to the site so if 
you know of any further Nice ones please pass them on.

The Nice book mentioned on the index page is launched this Saturday 
in Central London where Lee and David will be appearing.  The venue 
is Helter Skelter books in Denmark street, just round the corner from 
Tottenham Court tube station.

Doug

> >
> > Haven't found reviews of the
> > October gigs yet.
> 
> There is one of the Newcastle show here:
> 
> http://rockreviews.co.uk/elp/nicenewcastle.htm
>
> Doug
>

Didn't know you that were on this list, as there was no immediate
response to Jimmy Pishock's post.

Enjoyed your reviews of the shows so far ! BTW that left-hand
blue Ricky is very cool !

Sorry for the non-tron content ...

Arthur

<< BTW that left-hand blue Ricky is very cool ! >>

I shall be aiming to ask mr jackson about his shiny blue rick on saturday, 
given half a chance. seemed to me (and we were in the choir loft stage left, 
so good view past the moog) that the thing has the controls fitted from the 
rear. would that all rick basses were like this- my 96 five string has a 
white scratchplate over mapleglo, which wasn't a standard trim by the 
mid-90s. I know why- the plastic is translucent and the routing underneath is 
quite visible, much more so than on my 74 4001s. they are both cracking good 
instruments though. I didn't miss the hofner at all, except for the bit with 
the bow he used to do- they did "hang on to a dream" without it.. :-(

but anyway. I'll try to remember to ask whose 'tron (and where) they used on 
"blue apples".

erm... so someone said lee "and david" would be there; would this be the 
missing guitarist, or is that the author's name?

duncan/m400nr1098