Blacklist?
2005-01-12 by mrarcoman@aol.com
Well, judging from the numerous posts today regarding Frank, I'm beginning
to wonder. He seemed like the nicest guy to me when I met him. He had a
real passion to own a tron and achieved that goal -- and not without a LOT of
work and cost. He wrote a book and had it published, which is more than I
can say for most folks out there.
Frank was fairly specific about some of the things that were said to him in
his note. So far, I haven't seen anything in the return "arguments" of a
specific nature -- everybody just seems to loath the guy. I must admit, I
tend to ignore a lot of the annoying arguments on this (and any) list. ; I
would think (and hope) that the tron crowd would try to support anyone willing
to maintain or repair such a wonderful instrument -- I would hope that is what
this list is all about -- whether or not you like the person should be
secondary.
It seemed to me that Frank was stuck, had presumably done some things to
piss someone off at Streetly, tried to make amends and got nowhere. He
tried his only avenue to solicit help and got more sh*t from the one group that
should be here to support someone trying to get a machine in excellent running
condition. Shame on the folks in this list for caring so little
about a mellotron. I just don't get it. It's not like you can
go to Radio Shack and order spare parts. What the hell is going
on?
My 2ยข, and probably worth about that much to the list members.
Apparently Frank's only friend - Craig