The Mellotron Group

I like Yes and the Moodies, too, but they're no more pretentious than Bach, Beethoven or Zappa. Pretension is irrelevant. It's all entertainment. Now K.C. and the Sunshine Band...

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Robert <rmrmax@...> wrote:
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> I agree with you Gary....
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> I don't understand all the bashing of Yes's & the Moodie's earlier recordings on this list.  These groups are a bit pretentious but, so what ?
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> Thanks to these groups and many others, I got into Henry Cow, Terje Rypdal, Universe Zero, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Jackie Mclean, Lester Young, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Bill Evans, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Part, Luigi Nono, etc......
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> Below is CTTE, Part 2.  To me, it looks like RW is playing his Hammond organ starting @ 2:54.
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> Robert
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_uZPdour-j0&feature=related
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>  From: Gary Brumm <gabru@...>
> To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> 
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 2:11 PM
> Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] St John's Wood Church Organ
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> Hey Martin, You shouldn’t hate the band that is probably most responsible for the Mellotron being known by the ordinary musician.  
> I am sure they influenced many of the sales in the old days.
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> ….But that is NOT a Mellotron doing the pipes on CTTE…..it’s a synth live and the real deal on the album.  
> I saw it preformed many times.
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> Cheers,
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> Gary
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> From:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of tronbros
> Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2012 9:13 AM
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] St John's Wood Church Organ
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> Who are you asking? Â I hate YES.
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> Best,
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> M
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> mellotronics.co.uk
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> On 28 Mar 2012, at 16:43, Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@...> wrote:
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> >Isn't the church organ part on Close To The Edge the St John's Wood Mellotron sound ?
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> >On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 6:11 PM, tronbros <tronbros@...> wrote:
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> >Hi Paul,
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> >The recording was made around 70/71 and was released in the M400 catalogue. Â Far too late for the MKII.
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> >Best,
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> >M
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> >mellotronics.co.uk
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> >On 27 Mar 2012, at 22:41, "PJ12" <pj4000@...> wrote:
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> >>Hi All
> >>I popped in to the church today to have a look at the organ I have so much fun with (no, I mean the other one). Must get to hear it some time. 
> >>I read on t'internet that this is not the original 1862 one but a replacement installed 1912, if anyone cares about such tedious trivia.
> >>Does anyone know when the recordings were made, and was it on the Mk1 and Mk11?
> >>Paul 
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