Mellotronists

I floated in from the Yahoo! e-Prog news group. Over there, I guess 
women are rare too. Only maybe ten in a crowd of over 600! I don't 
know what it is about gender and proggies, but it IS strangely a male 
dominated classification. I'd go to concerts by Emerson Lake & Palmer 
and King Crimson, and the only girls who attended seemed to be in tow 
with their boyfriends. You try to strike up a conversation with them 
about progressive keyboard-based music, and they'd be totally 
clueless. Sure, more women would be at shows like Sky Cries Mary and 
Ozric Tentacles, but those attendees are more connected with the 
Grateful Dead/Phish set. It's weird how gender-imbalanced record 
collectors' circles are also. When I attend these events and 
concerts, I'll dress more amascule...no make-up, no styled hair, 
nothing prim and proper...so I'll fit right in with the social 
circles and talk biz without feeling "special".

When I first went to e-Prog, someone thought I was the Mellotronist 
for Beggar's Opera. Again, I'm not a musician...just one who always 
appreciated the sounds of Mellotrons...enough that I would want one 
for my own. I went to high school in Germany in 1970-1971 and I think 
some of those Dieter Dierks/Connie Plank bands dialed me in on what 
Mellotrons were all about, since I was just a short stone's throw auf 
der Autobahn from Neunkirchen where a lot of bands over there 
recorded. Then again...maybe it was prog bands that showed up in The 
Pit at Stetson University in DeLand, Florida where I went after high 
school. I know early Genesis LP's really drove it home for me early 
on. I think my femme side is a little more prevalent with obscure 
psychedelia bands from the late 60s/early 70s...like Mr. Floods 
Party, Quill, Leigh Stephens, Piblokto!/Battered Ornaments, Bugsy, 
Woody's Truck Stop, Autosalvage, July, Kak, Mad River, Frost, High 
Tide, Fugs, Twink, Organ Grinders, Steamhammer, Ancient Grease, 
Jeronimo, Elizabeth, John Kongos and that sort of stuff. Anything 
that CW Vrtacek, Steve Fisk, Kramer and Eric Lindgren touch on is 
fair game too...they've been at least floating members of every other 
band working in your neighborhood, and are currently in at least a 
dozen of them. That and maybe tripno and kitsch like Tipsy, Lowbelly, 
Amon Tobin, Capitol K, 1.8.7, DJ Tiesto, Jack Dangers, Mad Professor, 
Optiganally Yours, We, Seefeel and all the dub reggae on labels like 
On-U Sound and BSI are what I'm entrenched in these days.

did somebody mention seefeel?

>>Where is Diane Froelich when you need her, Don?<<

for heaven's sake, martin, be careful what you wish for..........

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