Mellotronists

From a newby:
1) Rod Argent (the reason I bought one...)
and all the usual rest.

Ditto -
And any producers, like Tony Allom (Strawbs), who worked to get "the
sound" on record.....

-----Original Message-----
From: cfierik [mailto:cfierik@...] 
Sent: Tuesday, September 21, 2004 5:47 PM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] The list...


From a newby:
1) Rod Argent (the reason I bought one...)
and all the usual rest.





 
Yahoo! Groups Links

...todays bands, that use Mellotrons live. 
Swedish section (well, 'cause I love their music:)

Änglagård (Thomas and Anna, but Mattias Olson seems to be the owner of the =

instrument)

Anekdoten (Nicklas Barker / Anna Sofi Dahlberg)

Landberk 

Paatos

The first two seem to be famous enough in Prog-Land to be asked and compari=
ng to 
Tony Banks or Rick Wakeman, they will be interested to talk about the Tron =
;-))

Greetings,
Thomas

i know klaus schulze at least USED to own one - a dual keyboard
if i recall [mkII?] it's in many of the studio pics from the 80s.
[added to his collection ~1976]

does anybody know what ever happened to that one?
is it in mothballs with much of his other older gear?

In a message dated 22/9/04 5:31:22 PM GMT Daylight Time, jeffc@... 
writes:


> i know klaus schulze at least USED to own one - a dual keyboard
> if i recall [mkII?] it's in many of the studio pics from the 80s.
> [added to his collection ~1976]
> 
> 
We tried to buy it 8 years ago and Klaus wanted 10.000DM.  He then sold it 
weeks later to our friend Klaus Hoffman for 1700DM!  Alcohol can seriously 
damage your brain.

Martin

Streetly Electronics - all things MELLOTRONIC - click this link..........

US East Coast Agent: Jimmy Moore - JMoore6397@...

West Coast Service Agent:  Paul J Cox - pjc56@...

How about chapters in chronological order?

The Beginning - Harry and his inventions, the UK connection, the machines
themselves

The First Years - Beatles, Moodies, BJH, etc.

The Golden Years (or, the "Explosion") - King Crimson, Yes & Wakeman,
Genesis, Refugee, SF&F, Tangerine Dream, PFM, Focus, England, Tomita,
Synergy, Gentle Giant, Fireballet, Il Balleto di Bronzo, and dozens
(hundreds?) of other Italian/German/English pre-disco bands

The Quiet Time - Richard Burmer, IQ, more Tomita, machines getting snapped
up for little or no money because of the Advent Of The DX-7

The Resurgence - Anglagaard, Landberk, Anekdoten, RMI, Spock's Beard, etc.,
machines being maintained and provided by the snapper-uppers mentioned above

something like that...?

- Gene

Ah yes, I think that was probably a MkV, if it was the same one that 
I saw on the back cover of one of his albums many moons ago.

Tony



--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Jeff Coulter <jeffc@n...> wrote:

> 
> i know klaus schulze at least USED to own one - a dual keyboard
> if i recall [mkII?] it's in many of the studio pics from the 80s.
> [added to his collection ~1976]
> 
> does anybody know what ever happened to that one?
> is it in mothballs with much of his other older gear?

Here is my little list.

The Beatles - Paul Mc Cartney (MKII & M400)
Genesis - Tony Banks (MKII and M400) and Anthony Phillips (MKII) & 
Steve Hackett (M400) (solo albums)
Yes - Rick Wakeman (M400 & double mellotron)
King Crimson - Robert Fripp and Ian Mc Donald (MKII & M400)
Pink Floyd - Rick Wright (black MKII)
Gentle Giant - Kerry Minnear (M300)
Led Zeppelin - John Paul Jones (M400) and perhaps Jimmy Page (MKV 
prototype)
PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - Flavio Premoli (MKII)
Matching Mole - Robert Wyatt (M400)
Manfred Mann (MKII)
Barclay James Harvest - Woolly Woolstenholme (M300)
The Moody Blues - Mike Pinder (MKII)
The Kinks - Raymond Douglas Davies (MKII)
The Zombies - Rod Argent (MKII)
Tangerine Dream - Edgar Froese (M400)
Radiohead (M400)
Herbie Hancock ("Crossings" 1972 & "Sextant" 1973 : M400)

Cheers,

David
----------------------------
Egrefin Home Studio
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/egrefin

All great suggestions guys/girl, but perhaps the scope of the book should be
slightly wider if possible.

Will the book include any observations/experiences of Chamberlin playing
(maybe Birotron as well - time to ask Wakeman/Earthstar)?

Otherwise the book will still be lacking a LOT of information and leaving
readers with many questions.

If you only had one chance at this and you wanted to do it beyond reproach
for all time - what/who/why would you ask???

I guess what I'm getting at is there's a whole plethora of musicians/people
(albeit not as well known) who would have been familiar with using these
instruments from the early 50's on up. Lawrence Welk was one of the first
people interested in the Chamberlin and even offered to fund it if it was
called a "Welk Machine" (His interest in Harry's wife being a moot point).

That's an example of the kind of arcane info that would be worth reading
about, along with what we do and still don't know about Mellotrons. I think
this would make it a more worthwhile venture.

Another fact is that at least over here in Canada/U.S  the
Mellotron/Chamberlin have been confused together to the point where one is
consistently mistaken for the other by musicians/liner note writers etc.
This was true in the golden days and it's still true now.  This is something
we tend to ignore because we're fairly well versed in the differences
between the two machines. Unfortunately, many others are not and the laymen
don't care to be.

So.....can it be a 50/50 amount about the history of the machines
themselves/music celebrity observations or is that going overboard?


Chris








----- Original Message -----

From: <egrefin@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] Re: The list...


> Here is my little list.
>
> The Beatles - Paul Mc Cartney (MKII & M400)
> Genesis - Tony Banks (MKII and M400) and Anthony Phillips (MKII) &
> Steve Hackett (M400) (solo albums)
> Yes - Rick Wakeman (M400 & double mellotron)
> King Crimson - Robert Fripp and Ian Mc Donald (MKII & M400)
> Pink Floyd - Rick Wright (black MKII)
> Gentle Giant - Kerry Minnear (M300)
> Led Zeppelin - John Paul Jones (M400) and perhaps Jimmy Page (MKV
> prototype)
> PFM (Premiata Forneria Marconi) - Flavio Premoli (MKII)
> Matching Mole - Robert Wyatt (M400)
> Manfred Mann (MKII)
> Barclay James Harvest - Woolly Woolstenholme (M300)
> The Moody Blues - Mike Pinder (MKII)
> The Kinks - Raymond Douglas Davies (MKII)
> The Zombies - Rod Argent (MKII)
> Tangerine Dream - Edgar Froese (M400)
> Radiohead (M400)
> Herbie Hancock ("Crossings" 1972 & "Sextant" 1973 : M400)
>
> Cheers,
>
> David
> ----------------------------
> Egrefin Home Studio
> http://perso.wanadoo.fr/egrefin
>
>
>
>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>
>
>

What about Fritz Doddy.  he has put more mellotron in American adverts in the last five years than can be counted.

best,

Fritz Doddy's mom  :>)

On Thu, 23 Sep 2004 fdoddy@... wrote:

> What about Fritz Doddy.  he has put more mellotron in American adverts
> in the last five years than can be counted. 



most of the rest of us can get past that 2 digit thing fritz.
maybe if you employ someone else's hand to add more fingers?
;0)

just kidding of course, and you are absolutely right, fritz - kudos!
it would make an interesting "who is using them prominently now"
chapter to wrap up the book... wouldn't it?

...jeff

> best,
> 
> Fritz Doddy's mom  :>)
> 
> 
> 
>  
> Yahoo! Groups Links
> 
> 
> 
>  
>

JUST KIDDING FOLKS...SHEESH!  I would rather be mentioned for supporting the ongoing library development if at all


Did anyone mention Pierre?  He gets my vote.

In the recent message <cj4lck+eaov@...>
you wrote...

> The Resurgence - Anglagaard, Landberk, Anekdoten, RMI, Spock's Beard,
> etc., machines being maintained and provided by the snapper-uppers
> mentioned above

The Revulsion - The period where we all suddently realise that
Anglagaard, Anekdoten, Spock's Beard, etc are a pile of cack.

Mike Dickson (tron@...) M400 #996
The Official Cynic of Streetly Electronics
Streetly Sample Library http://www.blackcat.demon.co.uk/tron/

----- Original Message -----

From: Mattias

To: tron@... ; Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 10:08 PM

Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] The list...

Couldn´t agree more...!

I hate new bands who use Mellotrons.

Why not have a section in the book with interviews of old reunited ( " we have never sounded better " ) bands who use samples ?

It could be both informative and enlightening to all of us.

Or better still, those who don't even bother with 'Tron samples, sticking to generic sampled strings. Rick who?

Best regards,

Mattias Olsson

...selling my Mellotron anyday now...

Wimp. I'll be putting mine on the bonfire come Nov.5th.

Andy T.

Andy Thompson wrote:

>
>
>      ----- Original Message -----
>      From: Mattias
>
>      Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] The list...
>       Couldn\ufffdt agree more...! I hate new bands who use
>      Mellotrons. Why not have a section in the book with
>      interviews of old reunited ( " we have never sounded better
>      " ) bands who use samples ? It could be both informative and
>      enlightening to all of us. Or better still, those who don't
>      even bother with 'Tron samples, sticking to generic sampled
>      strings. Rick who? Best regards,    Mattias Olsson
>      ...selling my Mellotron anyday now... Wimp. I'll be putting
>      mine on the bonfire come Nov.5th.     Andy T.
>
>      -------------------------------------------------------------
>
>      Oh dear,  Sounds like we're becoming the  Mellotron
>      "AbUsers List."
>

Pfft, screw the tron, lets get back to using real instruments!

:-)



--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, Jerry Korb <jkorb@i...> wrote:

> 
> 
> Andy Thompson wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> >      ----- Original Message -----
> >      From: Mattias
> >
> >      Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] The list...
> >       Couldn´t agree more...! I hate new bands who use
> >      Mellotrons. Why not have a section in the book with
> >      interviews of old reunited ( " we have never sounded better
> >      " ) bands who use samples ? It could be both informative and
> >      enlightening to all of us. Or better still, those who don't
> >      even bother with 'Tron samples, sticking to generic sampled
> >      strings. Rick who? Best regards,    Mattias Olsson
> >      ...selling my Mellotron anyday now... Wimp. I'll be putting
> >      mine on the bonfire come Nov.5th.     Andy T.
> >
> >      -------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> >      Oh dear,  Sounds like we're becoming the  Mellotron
> >      "AbUsers List."
> >

----- Original Message ----- 

From: "Philip" <sundaramusic@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 12:15 AM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: The list...


Pfft, screw the tron, lets get back to using real instruments!

:-)


I'm told the DX7 has a unique sound.  :-)

Andy T.