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Getting old and mellowing grey

Re: Getting old and mellowing grey

2011-09-16 by Nick Hewitt

Mellotronmadness wrote:

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> No offense to any one, but I listened to Porcupine Tree and felt bored, then I came across this, how did I miss it at the time?
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MykmpZkUgc&feature=channel_video_title
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> Some nice Mark II here.
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> I must be getting old, popular music from the 60's and seventies sounds infinitely better to my ears, even Yes, King Crimson and the Moody Blues! Well maybe not the Moody Blues :).
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> Mark

I first listened to "Music in a Doll's House" in late 1970 or early 1971, but only as a sort of follow-up to the "Weaver's Answer" single, which was superb. There are (IMHO) a couple of slightly better tron tracks on the album.

The mystery is...who plays the tron? There are no credits for keyboards on the sleeve, let alone for tron. My guess is that it MAY have been producer Dave (Traffic) Mason, or (more likely) his band-mate Steve Winwood.

Re: Getting old and mellowing grey

2011-09-16 by mellotronmadness

There may well be, this is all I've heard so far, I somehow missed out on Family apart from the singles.

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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Getting old and mellowing grey

2011-09-17 by Chris Dale

It's supposed to be Roger something (can't remember his last name)

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The mystery is...who plays the tron? There are no credits for keyboards on the sleeve, let alone for tron. My guess is that it MAY have been producer Dave (Traffic) Mason, or (more likely) his band-mate Steve Winwood.

Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Getting old and mellowing grey

2011-09-17 by Mike Dickson

Roger Chapman, AKA 'The Goat. His voice always makes me laugh.

Listen to this at about 0:55 and see what I mean.

http://youtu.be/7cUlxpU9Jok

Mike

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On 17/09/2011 10:05, Chris Dale wrote:

It's supposed to be Roger something (can't remember his last name)

The mystery is...who plays the tron? There are no credits for keyboards on the sleeve, let alone for tron. My guess is that it MAY have been producer Dave (Traffic) Mason, or (more likely) his band-mate Steve Winwood.



Re: Getting old and mellowing grey

2011-09-20 by john.mcnamara65

Very Nice. Reminds me of The Strawbs. I think what we had that is missing is CHORDS. Todays musicians have no knowledge of Chords and Harmony. For the most part anyway....
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--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "mellotronmadness" <mellotronmadness@...> wrote:
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> No offense to any one, but I listened to Porcupine Tree and felt bored, then I came across this, how did I miss it at the time?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MykmpZkUgc&feature=channel_video_title
>
> Some nice Mark II here.
>
> I must be getting old, popular music from the 60's and seventies sounds infinitely better to my ears, even Yes, King Crimson and the Moody Blues! Well maybe not the Moody Blues :).
>
> Mark
>

Re: Getting old and mellowing grey

2011-09-21 by Sean

Sad but true. It's going to make teaching Grateful Dead style vocal harmonies a bitch.

-Sean

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> Very Nice. Reminds me of The Strawbs. I think what we had that is missing is CHORDS. Todays musicians have no knowledge of Chords and Harmony. For the most part anyway....
> --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "mellotronmadness" <mellotronmadness@> wrote:
> >
> > No offense to any one, but I listened to Porcupine Tree and felt bored, then I came across this, how did I miss it at the time?
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_MykmpZkUgc&feature=channel_video_title
> >
> > Some nice Mark II here.
> >
> > I must be getting old, popular music from the 60's and seventies sounds infinitely better to my ears, even Yes, King Crimson and the Moody Blues! Well maybe not the Moody Blues :).
> >
> > Mark
> >
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