The Mellotron Group

You guys must be forgetting about Tormato, Drama and 90210 ! 

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@... wrote:
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>  Tony and I disagree on a lot, but I am also in the minority here.  I like Tales too.  If you listen through the drugs, there is some angst in there.
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> Close to the Edge goes to the desert island with me!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: tony1 <atm655@...>
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Mon, Apr 26, 2010 11:01 am
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Key to Science is Prog Rock (The Venture Bros)
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> To each their own. I find "Topographic Oceans" delightfully intense.
> Concentration rather than endurance or patience fits me.
> You, Clay make it sound like a visit to the dentist.
> Close to the Edge is the only Yes album that I like better.
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> Tony1
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
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> From:   ClayE 
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> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com   
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> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2010 10:02   AM
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> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Key   to Science is Prog Rock (The Venture Bros)
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> Just seeing the words "Topographic Oceans" sends me into a state of   profound, soul-destroying boredom. Topographic Oceans requires extraordinary   patience / endurance that I will never have.
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com,   Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@> wrote:
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> > A little   bit. He knew of it's distinctive sound and it's importance in the
> >   music alongside other things. He was also really surprised at the   efforts
> > involved in fixing the Wakeman Tron. He doesn't remember   anything about it's
> > reliability on stage, but they did have to know   the specific size of the
> > keyboards and more importantly the space   needed around them to build the
> > stage set designs.
> > This was   for the coloured pipe columns that emanated from Rick's side of the
> >   stage and the canopy over Alan White's drums.
> > They were the first   designs were for the Topograhic Oceans tour. He said a
> > lot more work   went into it than most can appreciate.
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> > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010   at 2:31 AM, Bruce Daily <pocotron@> wrote:
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> > > Thanks Chris-
> > > I had to retrieve my   copy of Roger Dean's excellent art book "Views" and
> > > re-live a bit   of the '70s. Page 130 shows Martyn's Retreat Pod, and Roger's
> > >   pod-like Childrens Bed follows on page 134. Pages of house designs   followed
> > > that. Mind-bending!
> > > Then there were his   amazing watercolor posters....
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> > > Hey, did he have any   thoughts on the Mellotron?
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> > > -Bruce D.
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> > > --- On *Fri, 4/23/10, Chris Dale   <unobtainiumkeys@>* wrote:
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> >   > From: Chris Dale <unobtainiumkeys@>
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> >   > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] The Key to Science is Prog Rock   (The
> > > Venture Bros)
> > > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> >   > Date: Friday, April 23, 2010, 11:48 PM
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> >   > Number 2 sat in an Earo Arnio Ball chair.
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> > > The   Egg Chair was a different designer (maybe Italian)
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> > >   The retreat pod chair ( half of which appears in Clockwork Orange   before
> > > the rape scene) was created by Martyn Dean - Roger Dean's   brother who did
> > > all the Yes stage architecture.
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> > > Roger and I discussed this a some length during a recent   weekend course /
> > > exhibit I attended.
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> > >   (His business card is also very interesting! )
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> > > On Sat, Apr 24, 2010 at 1:30 AM, Pomeroy RH   Ranch <punchbowl4@earthlin
> > > k.net<http://us.mc636.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=punchbowl4@>
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> > >> Didn't Number   2 always sit in one of those when interrogating Number
> > >>   6....?
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> > >> Loved the "Egg Chair"(but with   windows?). I remember the ones that had
> > >> speakers planted in   them. $500 to $700 each in the mid '70's. I believe
> > >> Roger   Dean even designed one. Phaaaaar Out!
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> > >> -Bruce   D.
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