The Mellotron Group

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
>
>  
> In a message dated 7/25/2008 9:45:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
> markpringnz@... writes:
> 
> Nearly  everything.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I'm anxious to know if there is any information on Mike Pinder's
swell  pedal 
> technique. And did he put little marks on his Mark IIs so he knew
how far  to 
> twist the pitch knob during his famous pitch dives?
>  
> I also would like to know who the first person was who ever vomited
in a  
> Mellotron. Why were the feet on M-400s painted black... was it
because of the  
> white and black keys? If so, then why didn't black Mellotrons have
white feet? 
>  
> Why weren't Mark IIs made out of steel? I doubt they would have been
 much 
> heavier.
>  
> When did Woolly first realize that the fluon tape guides in his
M-300 had  
> gone south? And when Barclay James Harvest pushed their Mark II down
the flight  
> of stairs, why weren't they arrested for cruelty to particle board?
>  
> How come there wasn't ever a Mellotron drum machine. It could  have
been 
> called the Mellotron Beat Master or Master Beater or something cool
 like that.
>  
> If Rick was too busy, couldn't Nick have interviewed his brother 
Melvin 
> Wakeman? Maybe Rick had mentioned stuff to him.
>  
> Is any of this in the book?
> 
> 
> 
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Frank, I believe all these questions are answered in the latest
edition of the National Enquirer. 

Bernie