Ah yes.. I haven't heard a decent tune that uses a Mellotron in years...
Yea... the occasional Dunkin' Donut commercial... or some dumb-ass car commercial... But, please.... Give me a break...
Rock is dead they say... But....
"Nothing can change the shape of things to come."
From: Mark Pring <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Saturday, July 5, 2008 6:10:19 PM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mellotron Blues
I have been playing #1565 every day for the last few weeks, sometimes solo sometimes playing along to CDs. I think it's in tune, either that or it's semi tone or tone out and I am playing in another key as I can usually work out a basic accompniament ( how do you spell that?) to most pop and blues tracks. It's amazing how often I, IV, V and the odd VI will do the trick. Anyway I have a lot of blues tracks on the ipod, Muddy Waters, Howling Wolf etc, and rather surprisingly a staccato 8 choir backing sounds really good with the blues.
Does anybody else play the blues on the mellotron and what voices do you use?
There is a lot of work to do on my mellotron and sadly it's going to be out of action for a few weeks as I attempt to fix the keyboard. So it's back to M-tron for a while, nothing like as much fun!
Mark
PS How do you know when your mellotron is fixed?
Answer: You put the cheek blocks back in.