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Re: Sound question

2009-01-11 by James Bailey

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, djacques@... wrote:
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> I forgot to mention. Ian Mc was pretty rough on the top of the MkII during Mars.  He was 
banging something on top of it.  I bet there were a few marks in the wood. 

He must've passed the technique on to Mel Collins. He did the same thing when I saw them 
here in Toronto, 11/11/'71. The "something" in that case was a tambourine, and the tune by 
then had, of course, been renamed "The Devil's Triangle".

Jim Bailey

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