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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Tron Spotting- is it or isn't it?

2012-06-18 by Tony

I think it’s an M400, but it seems taller, like the M4000, hmmm.
Good to see regardless!
Tony

From: tron400 
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2012 10:04 PM
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Tron Spotting- is it or isn't it?

  
At 0:18, there's a blue flash on the control panel that could be from the digital readout on an M4000 or maybe just a reflection. Looks like it could be an M400 or an M4000. Who knows?

Bernie

--- In mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com, JAMES STRAUSS <jandjstrz@...> wrote:
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> So I didn't think Grace Potter's band would use a 'Tron, but she said they did in the studio in Nashville.
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> and on stage, live?....at the begining at 0:16 it sounds like a synthesizer sound to me, but it looks like Scott is working a pitch knob where it would be on a Mellotron, .....and at the end at 3:37Â the side view looks like a cabinet to a M400. 
> Is it, or isn't it?
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0S8f49ZR54
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> --- On Sat, 6/16/12, JAMES STRAUSS <jandjstrz@...> wrote:
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> From: JAMES STRAUSS <jandjstrz@...>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Tron Spotting
> To: mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com
> Date: Saturday, June 16, 2012, 11:44 AM
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> Was watching TV last night and stumbled onto VH-1 story tellers. 
> Grace Potter and the Nocturnals were introducing a new single....she started out saying thay were fooling around with an old Casio and a Mellotron in the studio and came up with this one...I didn't see a mellotron on the stage...but the iTunes single sounds like it may have one. 
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> Vid on Youtube: 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA_ode55DFA 
> VH-1 live version: 
> http://www.vh1.com/video/misc/789550/never-go-back-sneak-vh1-storytellers.jhtml
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