Fwd: [Mellotronists] Hello to all
2002-12-29 by Colin Crawford
> From: Colin Crawford <g-colin.crawford@...> > Date: Sun Dec 29, 2002 11:28:06 am Europe/London > To: "mellotrongirl <mellotrongirl@hotmail.com>" > <mellotrongirl@...> > Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Hello to all > > Blimey! > > ..Girlies on the List?!... Whatever next!... It's the thin end of the > wedge, I'm telling ya!.. Don't you REALISE, MellotronGirl, that the > rest of us all sit around in comfy leather club armchairs and > Chesterfield Sofas in our exclusively Male Environment, smoking large > Havanas, quaffing Vintage Ports and Fine Scotch Whisky and bemoaning > our lack of success with the Fairer Gender. Granted, Norm may > occasionally utter something vaguely Tron-related which will wake us > from our comfortable apathy, and the Tronbros will try and lower the > tone and ruin the ambiance with their Beer Drinking, but by and large, > we're a sexist, upper-class, English, quasi-English or at least > Anglophile bunch of Flat Earthers who make the General Synod look > progressive... Actually, they LET women in didn't they, so they ARE > progressive. > Then there's THIS bit: > > > On Sunday, December 29, 2002, at 05:37 am, mellotrongirl > <mellotrongirl@...> wrote: >> Of course I like all the Mellotron LP's you people like. Spring, Eyes >> Of Blue, Help Yourself, Goblin, SFF, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Il >> Baletto Di Bronzo, Fields, Moody Blues, Refugee, King Crimson, Kayak, >> Earth & Fire, Strawbs, Strange Advance, Anekdoten, Jonesy, Fruupp, >> Yes, Sebastian Hardie, Gracious!, and whatever else winds up on >> labels like Harvest SKAO/SHVL, Brain/Metronome, Famous Charisma, RCA >> Neon, Ohr, Cosmic Couriers, Vertigo swirl label, etc. > > What's THIS then? Aren't you supposed to like Abba, The Bay City > Rollers, New Seekers and the like... Atomic Kitten if you're a Young > 'un... This is Man's Music GodDammit! > > What IS the world coming to? >> > Honly Jeoking!! CC http://www.s-club.co.uk [there ain't no paté]