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Re: [newmellotrongroup] dg:

Re: dg:

2015-09-21 by Berington Van Campen

Thank you, Ben.  It happens.  Hopefully he can clear it out easily and it goes no further than that. 

It's ALMOST (not quite, I'd guess) as bad as mice living in your Mellotron!  I like mice an' all that, but there's better housing for 'em elsewhere, right?

Speaking of the CMaj 7th chord that's "scary," once many years ago, I put together an original tape of creepy, spooky music for Halloween, to play loudly enough it would be audible outside our open apartment door. At the time, we lived in a great little compound in Hollywood, with single & double-story apartments all opening into a central courtyard, perfect for parties and Halloweenies and other such madness. (We even called it "Rancho Beyondo" & to this day, some of those neighbors are still best friends.)

So my tape was LOTS of Mellotron, with MiniMoog, lots of effects, with spooky, echoey vocal stuff added, I'm sure. Our problem was that my wife & I didn't have anyone come to our door, though we saw them outside in the courtyard. We finally went out & asked our neighbors if they were getting kids at their doors. They all were, but they explained to us that my music was scaring them and no one dared knock! HA! I did it a little "too well," I guess.  I turned it off... we started getting Trick-or-Treaters almost right away. Hmmm...

Mellotron's a very powerful instrument!  (-:

Cheers!
Berington
 
Berington Van Campen
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Re: Scary Sounds

2015-09-21 by Robert

An 80's Diamanda Galas recording cranked up will do the trick as well. :-)

Cheers,

Robert


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On Mon, 9/21/15, Berington Van Campen vcmusicorp1@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: dg:
To: "newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, September 21, 2015, 1:39 PM


Thank you, Ben.  It happens.  Hopefully he can clear it out easily and it goes
no further than that. 

It's ALMOST (not quite, I'd guess) as bad as mice living in
your Mellotron!  I like mice an' all that, but
there's better housing for 'em elsewhere, right?

Speaking of the CMaj 7th chord that's "scary," once
many years ago, I put together an original tape of creepy,
spooky music for Halloween, to play loudly enough it would
be audible outside our open apartment door. At the time, we
lived in a great little compound in Hollywood, with single
& double-story apartments all opening into a central
courtyard, perfect for parties and Halloweenies and other
such madness. (We even called it "Rancho Beyondo"
& to this day, some of those neighbors are still best
friends.) So my tape was LOTS of Mellotron, with MiniMoog, lots of effects,
with spooky, echoey vocal stuff added, I'm sure. Our
problem was that my wife & I didn't have anyone come
to our door, though we saw them outside in the courtyard. We
finally went out & asked our neighbors if they were
getting kids at their doors. They all were, but they
explained to us that my music was scaring them and no one
dared knock! HA! I did it a little "too well," I
guess.  I turned it off... we started getting
Trick-or-Treaters almost right away. Hmmm...

Mellotron's a very powerful instrument!  (-:
Cheers!Berington
 Berington Van Campen
Van Campen Productions /
V.C.MusiCorp Scoring Services / Sessions
VCMusiCorp1@yahoo.com

The BEATUNES - Beatles Tribute Band
www.TheBeatunes.com
(626) 458-4474 - Home/Office
www.facebook.com/berington

Re: [newmellotrongroup] dg:

2015-09-21 by Ben Stuyts

My Mellotron (the old Earth and Fire one) was kinda scary when I got it. I was told it was stored in some sort of chicken barn. It sure smelled like it, and there were various assorted droppings in the bottom of it. Strangely enough, the mechanics and electronics (and tapes!) were in pretty good shape.

Ben

> On 21 Sep 2015, at 19:39, Berington Van Campen vcmusicorp1@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thank you, Ben. It happens. Hopefully he can clear it out easily and it goes no further than that.
>
> It's ALMOST (not quite, I'd guess) as bad as mice living in your Mellotron! I like mice an' all that, but there's better housing for 'em elsewhere, right?
>
> Speaking of the CMaj 7th chord that's "scary," once many years ago, I put together an original tape of creepy, spooky music for Halloween, to play loudly enough it would be audible outside our open apartment door. At the time, we lived in a great little compound in Hollywood, with single & double-story apartments all opening into a central courtyard, perfect for parties and Halloweenies and other such madness. (We even called it "Rancho Beyondo" & to this day, some of those neighbors are still best friends.)
>
> So my tape was LOTS of Mellotron, with MiniMoog, lots of effects, with spooky, echoey vocal stuff added, I'm sure. Our problem was that my wife & I didn't have anyone come to our door, though we saw them outside in the courtyard. We finally went out & asked our neighbors if they were getting kids at their doors. They all were, but they explained to us that my music was scaring them and no one dared knock! HA! I did it a little "too well," I guess. I turned it off... we started getting Trick-or-Treaters almost right away. Hmmm...
>
> Mellotron's a very powerful instrument! (-:
>
> Cheers!
> Berington
>
> Berington Van Campen
> Van Campen Productions / V.C.MusiCorp Scoring Services / Sessions
> VCMusiCorp1@yahoo.com
> The BEATUNES - Beatles Tribute Band
> www.TheBeatunes.com
> (626) 458-4474 - Home/Office
> www.facebook.com/berington
>
>
>

Re: [newmellotrongroup] dg:

2015-09-22 by JAMES STRAUSS

Well Mr. Van Campen.........we all need to hear some of those scary sounds.

There are some kids in my neighborhood I'd like to keep away from my door step this Halloween.

Jim



On Monday, September 21, 2015 6:03 PM, "Ben Stuyts ben@stuyts.com [newmellotrongroup]" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:


 
My Mellotron (the old Earth and Fire one) was kinda scary when I got it. I was told it was stored in some sort of chicken barn. It sure smelled like it, and there were various assorted droppings in the bottom of it. Strangely enough, the mechanics and electronics (and tapes!) were in pretty good shape.

Ben

> On 21 Sep 2015, at 19:39, Berington Van Campen vcmusicorp1@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> Thank you, Ben. It happens. Hopefully he can clear it out easily and it goes no further than that.
>
> It's ALMOST (not quite, I'd guess) as bad as mice living in your Mellotron! I like mice an' all that, but there's better housing for 'em elsewhere, right?
>
> Speaking of the CMaj 7th chord that's "scary," once many years ago, I put together an original tape of creepy, spooky music for Halloween, to play loudly enough it would be audible outside our open apartment door. At the time, we lived in a great little compound in Hollywood, with single & double-story apartments all opening into a central courtyard, perfect for parties and Halloweenies and other such madness. (We even called it "Rancho Beyondo" & to this day, some of those neighbors are still best friends.)
>
> So my tape was LOTS of Mellotron, with MiniMoog, lots of effects, with spooky, echoey vocal stuff added, I'm sure. Our problem was that my wife & I didn't have anyone come to our door, though we saw them outside in the courtyard. We finally went out & asked our neighbors if they were getting kids at their doors. They all were, but they explained to us that my music was scaring them and no one dared knock! HA! I did it a little "too well," I guess. I turned it off... we started getting Trick-or-Treaters almost right away. Hmmm...
>
> Mellotron's a very powerful instrument! (-:
>
> Cheers!
> Berington
>
> Berington Van Campen
> Van Campen Productions / V.C.MusiCorp Scoring Services / Sessions
> VCMusiCorp1@yahoo.com
> The BEATUNES - Beatles Tribute Band
> www.TheBeatunes.com
> (626) 458-4474 - Home/Office
> www.facebook.com/berington
>
>
>



Re: dg:

2015-09-23 by Berington Van Campen

Hey Jim,

Got a good laugh over that one!  I JUST now remembered, while most of my little madness came from my own deranged mind, I did use some non-original music in parts of my little compilation/conflagration, were parts of Pink Floyd's "Sysyphus," from the "Ummagumma" album... I want to say, released around 1970-ish.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmQujwmalfA)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Sysyphus, Part 1-4 / Pink Floyd
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The first & last sections feature Mellotron, synths and tympani, primarily, and I think those are the sections I used, I believe with scary, echoey voices and screams, invitations to "Come inside..." etc., to  top 'em off.  That helped to stretch out my little frightmare-for-the-neighbors to a reasonable length so I wouldn't have to keep rewinding the cassette.  (THAT dates it, doesn't it? This would've been somewhere around 1978-'79 of so, I think)  It was fun.

By the way, aside from this particular musical diversion, there's a lot of really great, more "Floydian"-type music on this record, too, as well as other rather wild & fun stuff. One of my favorites is David Gilmore's "Grantchester Meadows," with beautiful acoustic guitar work, typical Floyd vocals, and the eventual demise of an errant fly. How much fun is THAT?!?

Cheers!
Berington

 
Berington Van Campen
Van Campen Productions / V.C.MusiCorp Scoring Services / Sessions
VCMusiCorp1@yahoo.com
The BEATUNES - Beatles Tribute Band
www.TheBeatunes.com
(626) 458-4474 - Home/Office
www.facebook.com/berington

Re: dg:

2015-09-23 by Berington Van Campen

Woops! A correction in may last post:  "Grantchester Meadows" is actually a Roger Waters piece, not Gilmore, though D.G. obviously contributed greatly in the dual guitar works & vocals. NICE piece, with a fabulous conclusion!

Cheers!
 
Berington Van Campen
Van Campen Productions / V.C.MusiCorp Scoring Services / Sessions
VCMusiCorp1@yahoo.com
The BEATUNES - Beatles Tribute Band
www.TheBeatunes.com
(626) 458-4474 - Home/Office
www.facebook.com/berington