The Mellotron Group

Well done Mike! Perhaps an octave low, but well done!
 
Frank
 
 
In a message dated 10/17/2009 12:13:51 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:

 
 
 
_http://www.mikedickhttp://www.http://www.mikedhttp://wwhtt_ 
(http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/private/Epitaph-Reworked.mp3) 

markpringnz  wrote:
> 
>
> Apparently in the 50th anniversary edition the  mellotron will be 
> replaced with a kazoo.
>
> --- In _newmellotrongroup@newmellotronnew_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com)   
> <mailto:newmellotromailto:newmellotmailto:n><WBR>,  Mike Dic
> <mike.dickson@mik> wrote:
>  >
> > This may sound like heresy....
> >
> >  Does anyone else have the new 40th anniversary edition of 'In The  
Court
> > of the Crimson King'? I do (as you may expect) and believe  it or not,
> > what has been done to it in terms of sonic quality is  astounding. It's
> > even better than the 30th anniversary edition  (which I thought was
> > outstanding) and comes with some really good  extras too.
> >
> > But.
> >
> > To me,  the biggie on this album was always 'Epitaph'. It was really 
>  this
> > track that showed me the way and pointed me at a style of  music I don't
> > think anyone else in the genre has come /close /to  equalling. And it 
> was
> > always the Mellotron that did it.  Everything else in the track was
> > great, but the piercing shreik  of the Mellotron propelled it from being
> > a /fairly/ standard  minor key tune into something really magical.
> >
> > Which  begs the question: /what the shiny blue fuck has happened 
> here?  /I
> > was listening to the track again today having had a feeling of  loss 
> in a
> > couple of previous listens, and have suddenly  found out where it was
> > coming from. Or not. At the close of the  first chorus the Mellotron
> > climbs to the top E as well all  know...and never gets there. The 
> note is
> > /not there/.  One note. Big deal, you may say, but it is a /sublime
> > /note. As  Fripp himself has droned, you '/can play any note they like
> >  provided it's the right one/'. And this is the right one. It's sweet 
>  and
> > perfect and rounds off the chorus perfectly. So why is it  omitted. It's
> > even in tune!
> >
> > Worse is to  come. /That pitch bend. /My 14 year old jaw dropped on
> > hearing it  for the first time. I think I destroyed my first copy by
> > dropping  the needle onto at point again and again and again. It is a
> >  fantastic, blood-curdling hair-on-the-  fantast  fantastic, blood-cu
> > on the 40th anniversary set it is /sludged out/. The  crescendo 
> behind it
> > absolutely overwhelms it to the  extent that you can hear the trick; one
> > Mellotron plays a  crescendo climbing 'flat' to E-minor whilst the other
> > one bends  up to it. Expert fading on the original ensured that the
> > /effect  /was heard but that the squeak of strings ratcheted up like 
>  that
> > /was not/. It's a superb moment. And you can barely hear it  on the new
> > release.
> >
> > Has anyone else  noticed this or any other weirdness/ It's the only 
> track
> >  I have listened to in such detail so far, which makes me a tad scared
>  > for the rest now. Actually, I'm playing it now and the clarity of  the
> > piece now makes it sound like Mike Giles banging on timpani  in a 
> studio,
> > not the far-off and distant /sound of doom  /that I know so well. Maybe
> > less is nore. Perhaps Fripp has  /tinkered beyond. /Perhaps I'll ask 
him.
> >
> > Musical  choices aside, the sound quality is to be heard and 
>  disbelieved.
> > A friend with a good 5:1 system says that 21CSM is  like having the band
> > play in your front room. It's that  good.
> >
> > --
> > Mike Dickson,  Edinburgh
> >
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>
> 

-- 
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