The Mellotron Group

Vance,

Thank you for your post and comments...


I like AH too and have both albums he did with Tempest as well as'Igginbottoms Wrenchfrom 1969, Gong's Expresso /Gazeuse! album from 1976, the 1st U.K. album, his work with the Tony William's Lifetime, Gorden Beck, and several of his solo albums.  He is a fine guitarist indeed. 


Soft Machine's "Bundles" (studio album) from 1975 (the clip you posted was a live performance of 1 of the songs from that album) is amongst one of my favorite 1970s jazz-fusion records.

Robert



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 From: Vance Pomeroy <vance@juniperpacific.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 5:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Correction - OT: Whitney Houston - Memories - still OT
 

  
Robert -
Still OT, but when I went to watch/listen to the Soft Machine
    version (thank you very much), I clicked over onto this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=frhOmiyifp0&feature=related
Being a Holdsworth fan, this was very cool to watch - live at
    Montreux, Allan not only sings a little (eek), but at 2:05 he's
    ear-tuning his SG with the volume down - gotta love it....
Vance

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>I didn't mean to infer that the original recording of this song was done by Soft Machine; it's their version that I associate the song with.
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>To the best of my knowledge, I believe it was actually 1st recorded by The Wilde Flowers, the predecessor group to Soft Machine and Caravan which included several members of both line ups of these subsequent groups.
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>To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:23 PM
>Subject: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Whitney Houston - Memories
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>Gino, thanks for pointing out to us that Whitney Houston sang "Memories"; I never knew that.
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>I didn't follow Whitney Houston, but I always loved Soft Machine.
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>Respectfully, I don't think Material's version with WH is all that bad.  "Memories" is such a great song, it's hard to ruin it.
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>So below is Material's cover and the original Soft Machine single.
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>BTW, RIP Mr. Hugh Hopper...
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>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
>Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 12:28 AM
>Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT: Whitney
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>Sarah Vaughn she was not.  What she did was fashion, showbiz, not music. Music is incidental to people in her situation.  Confluential to selling shit.
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>She sang Hugh Hopper's "Memories" with Material and they had the nerve to put it out as a 12"
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