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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Genesis Fireside Song

2009-03-06 by marabus

I guess anything is possible.

Chris Dale wrote:
> that's news to me! So maybe it's not strings then, (it's used 
> for something else)
> or Greenslade is playing it - doing the string arrangement? It was a 
> foreign release version I'm referring to that mentioned it - maybe 
> dating from the 70's.
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>  
> It was common back then to list "string arrangements" and not 
> Mellotron or Chamberlin when trying to avoid the squabbles with the 
> musicians union
>  
> Two examples are What's Going On (Marvin Gaye) and Nightwalker (Gino 
> Vannelli) both mention string arrangements but have Chamberlin strings 
> / other stuff  mixed in as well.
>  
>  
> Trivial I guess!
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> On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 1:55 AM, marabus <marabus@verizon.net 
> <mailto:marabus@verizon.net>> wrote:
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>     Tony didn't use a Tron until Trepass.The string arrangements were
>     actually done by Arthur Greenslade.
>     Pete
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>     Chris Dale wrote:
>     > An early issue of that album lists "mellotron" in the credits.
>     So your
>     > saved.
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