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Child of the 1960s

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Child of the 1960s

2011-09-10 by Chris Dale

Generally speaking, some of the current crop of users mentioned in this article makes music so bland and uninteresting that name-checking 'mellotron' is used to give them validity.

On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:

http://stringinstrument.hotmusictools.com/2011/09/09/the-mellotron-a-child-of-the-60s/

The first sentence is interesting, given recent discussions.

And does anyone else find it wearing that 'current users' have to be
name-checked to give it some kind validity?

Mike