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RE: [newmellotrongroup] Epitaph

2008-08-10 by David Jacques

It’s really a shame as Michael Giles and McDonald are from the original band. Peter Giles’ bass playing with that slapping popping crap is so out of the style of the music. What happened to that great Fender flat round string sound? He certainly played great bass on Cirkus.

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Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Epitaph

In a message dated 8/10/2008 6:11:21 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, djacques@csulb. edu writes:

Well, I was truly sorry that I found this on YouTube. And I am glad I did not see these guys when they were in LA. A very lackluster performance of Epitaph. I think that whatever the keyboardist is playing for the “Mellotron” may possibly be the worst sounding samples I have yet to hear. And the end is rather embarrassing as he bends the pitch up and then releases the wheel before he releases the chord. The vocalist’s phrasing is completely off… Just a bit depressing after seeing Crimson in 1969…


After seeing 5 seconds of this, In think it is the 21st century schizoid band. And yes, it does suck. They were using stock Korg, "tape sampler" shit.



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