The Mellotron Group

For some reason (thankfully), the "either" "or" view has yet to sink
in for me. The Moodies? The Parliaments? King Crimson? The Music
Machine? Genesis? The Residents? Bo Hansson? The Vanilla Fudge? The
Flower Kings? The Young Rascals? Hatfield and the North? Janis Ian?
Egg? Sam Cooke? Yes? YES!!!

Bernie


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, john barrick
<astroboy@...> wrote:

>
> Jason, I've encountered this a number of times in recent years and

never

> cease to be surprised by it, but there seems to be this tendency

to try

> and classify the Moodies as prog and lump them into a comparison

with

> Crimson and Yes. I don't remember anyone doing this when all this

stuff

> was contemporary back in the early '70s. Yes and Crimson were
> considered much heavier and meatier bands by just about everyone I

knew

> and the Moodies were sort of a folky pop group that had evolved

into

> something slightly more.
>
> I've never thought of the Moodies as anything other than a very

melodic

> pop outfit that I happen to like. They've done some beautiful

things

> and some absolute dreck - all on those core seven albums. I

happen to

> think that Tuesday Afternoon and Watching A Waiting are two of the

most

> beautiful songs ever recorded, and that a large percentage of

Question

> of Balance and EGBDF are absolute crap. I happen to think that

Hayward

> has a beautiful singing voice and that Pinder was the creative

soul of

> the band, and that his Mellotron playing put them where they

were. By

> the same token, if you want to hear some absolutely dreadful
> songwriting, just listen to the stuff that Denny Lane and Mike

Pinder

> were writing in the band's original incarnation.
>
> At the end of the day, I find early Crimson as being much closer

to the

> Moodies (musically Crimson were far superior, but melodically

closer)

> than to much of the material that Yes was putting out. Just my

opinion

> and your mileage may vary.
> best
> johnb
>
>
> Jason Locke wrote:
> > The instrumentation doesn't seem to weave in and out like a Yes

or a

> > King Crimson piece would. Maybe that isn't the goal, though, so
> > again, it's a preference. Nothing hits me in the gut, though.

What

> > am I not getting, because I want to understand! What aspects of

their

> > music do the fans here appreciate and enjoy?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > *//*
>