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Busking with mellotrons

Busking with mellotrons

2008-04-03 by Mark Pring

Anybody have any experience with busking with a
mellotron, I have thought of putting castors on #1565,
2 12 volt batteries one for the tron and one for a
small guitar amp. Will need some kind of transformer.
Has this been done? The streets of Wellington await, I
should be able to compete with blanketman and
superstion man on Courtney Place. Beats work.

Mark


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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Busking with mellotrons

2008-04-03 by Andy Thompson

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Pring" <markpringnz@yahoo.com>
To: <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:47 AM
Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Busking with mellotrons


> Anybody have any experience with busking with a
> mellotron, I have thought of putting castors on #1565,
> 2 12 volt batteries one for the tron and one for a
> small guitar amp. Will need some kind of transformer.
> Has this been done? The streets of Wellington await, I
> should be able to compete with blanketman and
> superstion man on Courtney Place. Beats work.
>
> Mark


Mark

Have you still got those mental young blood'n'thunder preachers at the
bottom of Cuba St.? Had a wonderful row with them late one evening last time
I was over. We came to an eventual disagreement, I shook their hands and
asked them where I could get a meal that time of night. And they told me.
:-) Oh, you WERE one of those... :-))

Andy T.

RE: [newmellotrongroup] Busking with mellotrons

2008-04-03 by Mark Wallis

Not yet! Great idea though. I'd love to busk with the Theremin but it's liable to get me stabbed in Birmingham.
Now that you mention it.. with summer icumen inn etc... Why the hell not?

Having said that, the idea of pushing a soaking singing fridge up Constitution Hill in the rain most definitely doesn't appeal. However good the castors.. ;-)
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> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: markpringnz@yahoo.com
> Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2008 01:47:26 -0700
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Busking with mellotrons
>
>
> Anybody have any experience with busking with a
> mellotron, I have thought of putting castors on #1565,
> 2 12 volt batteries one for the tron and one for a
> small guitar amp. Will need some kind of transformer.
> Has this been done? The streets of Wellington await, I
> should be able to compete with blanketman and
> superstion man on Courtney Place. Beats work.
>
> Mark
>
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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Busking with mellotrons

2008-04-03 by Mark Pring

Hi Andy,
> Have you still got those mental young
> blood'n'thunder preachers at the
> bottom of Cuba St.?
I don't think so, I haven't seen them.


> :-) Oh, you WERE one of those... :-))

Now that's an idea, I could preach about the mighty
tron to come and accompany myself with an angelic
choir.

Mark


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Re: Busking with mellotrons

2008-04-04 by James Bailey

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Mark Wallis
<markstuartwallis@...> wrote:
>
>
> Not yet! Great idea though. I'd love to busk with the Theremin but
it's liable to get me stabbed in Birmingham.

I once busked here in Toronto with my theremin and electric guitar
during a street festival. Each went into a channel of a walkman
cassette and the output to a pair of speakers mounted, using the
magnets, to a metal light standard. The theremin, a home-cobbled unit
sold by SWTP, was played as I usually do - with my feet.

I managed to survive without involuntary perforations, though did get
many strange looks, and someone asking if I was from another planet.

To Mark P.: All I can say is "good bloody luck". Oh, that and "are you
bloody mad???". ;-)

Jim Bailey