The Mellotron Group

I'll take "Tales", "Fragile", "Relayer", and "Close to the Edge" to that isle with me.
 
   Damn, I sense another list thread forming again....
 
  -Bruce D.


--- On Mon, 4/26/10, ClayE <ecclesreinson@rogers.com> wrote:


From: ClayE <ecclesreinson@rogers.com>
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: The Key to Science is Prog Rock (The Venture Bros)
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Date: Monday, April 26, 2010, 7:33 PM


  



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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> 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....
> > >
> > > Hey, did he have any thoughts on the Mellotron?
> > >
> > > -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.
> > >
> > > The Egg Chair was a different designer (maybe Italian)
> > >
> > > 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.
> > >
> > > 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....?
> > >>
> > >> 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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