The Mellotron Group

He is my contribution......Just discovered Grace Potter

Grace Potter    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrdfFpxTXQ     watch the whole 
song. I  hope that at some point she adds Mellotron to the Hammond and Wurlie.

Bill





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From: Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org>
To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Mon, April 25, 2011 8:27:05 AM
Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers

  
They still have soul....

On Apr 25, 2011, at 9:22 AM, lsf5275@aol.com wrote:

  
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>This is what happens when these kinds of experiments go horribly wrong.
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>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE
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>In a message dated 4/25/2011 9:17:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
>tomdcour@amnh.org writes:
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>>getting my bodily fluids drained has always been a concern of mine- I figure the 
>>chinese and russians do as good a job 
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>> as anyone else
>>P.S. I like what you wrote Chris
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>>On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:56 AM, John Hammaren wrote:
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>>>It’s full of commies, draining the rest of us of our natural bodily fluids! You 
>>>think it was coincidence that video was posted? I think not.
>>>From:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
>>>[mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas C. Doncourt
>>>Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 5:37 PM
>>>To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>>Cc: 'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com'
>>>Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers
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>>>OH GOD NO !!! not on the tron site for pities sake
>>>
>>>> Communist more likely. The Soviet Russkies weren't much different. The
>>>> removal of individualistic thought does not promote much innovation. .
>>>>
>>>> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>>> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Gary Brumm
>>>> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:00 PM
>>>> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Chris, I agree with most of this except "The emphasis on imitation over
>>>> invention (largely an American ideology)"
>>>> I think it is overwhelmingly an Asian ideology.......
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>>> [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Chris Dale
>>>> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:43 AM
>>>> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>>>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers
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>>>>
>>>> Well if not mistaken, the letters next to the video say DPRK, which means
>>>> "Democratic People's Republic of Korea".
>>>>
>>>> Those of you familiar with history might remember that it's a misnomer of
>>>> sorts - a propaganda title used by North Korea and Stalin's puppet
>>>> counterpart Kim Il Sung.
>>>>
>>>> As an educator of Korean students and having gone deeply into the
>>>> Demilitarized zone at the South / North Korean border, I can tell you
>>>> that these students have it ingrained in them to duplicate or copy
>>>> perfectly - without any thought of improvisation or expression because it
>>>> is immediately extinguished at the slightest emergence.
>>>>
>>>> Now before the automaton reaction of 'politically incorrect' enters the
>>>> conditioned and malleable mind, consider that the country was largely
>>>> destroyed during the Korean War and that their entire culture has been
>>>> based upon copying either Americanism and it's influences (South Korea) or
>>>> Communism and it's influences (North Korea).
>>>>
>>>> With 5000 years of culture reduced to almost nothing in 3 years, the
>>>> people had no choice but to copy everything else and to do it very well,
>>>> to the point where copying it better took over and originality or anything
>>>> resembling it was discouraged.
>>>> This idea is shared by many Koreans by the way!
>>>>
>>>> The emphasis on imitation over invention (largely an American ideology) is
>>>> almost second nature to pr esent day students. I have witnessed this first
>>>> hand and attempt to drastically reduce it for the student's sake.
>>>>
>>>> Of course, these children will gradually learn the bigger meaning of what
>>>> it is they're doing, and let their artistic sides emerge, but for now
>>>> let's take comfort and enjoyment in what they've achieved (and had drilled
>>>> into them) to do, and the fact that they've even eaten and have
>>>> electricity as more than half of North Korea doesn't. It's a completely
>>>> different world than you can imagine, with rampant starvation, propaganda
>>>> speaker systems in every house, and picures of the "Dear Leader" hung up
>>>> on bedroom walls and larger than family pictures.
>>>> There's even an incident where a man's home caught fire and he saved the
>>>> pictures of the "Dear Leaders" first while his family burned to death.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Anyway - this is a singular performance because of where these kids are
>>>> from and it needs to be seen in it's proper social, political and economic
>>>> context, and not through the views most of us would normally hold.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> As far the North American hockey dad's and soccer mom's - in my opinion,
>>>> these people (although well meaning) are just as bad as the oppressive
>>>> totalitarian governements of the world because it's the exact same thing
>>>> on a much smaller scale. These people also reduce and suppress their kids
>>>> to death by ruining any individual expression, in the guise of being in
>>>> their best interests.
>>>>
>>>> I'd have no difficulty at all lashing out at those troublemaking parents
>>>> out if I was a school coach. It might be the only time they ever question
>>>> their righteous behaviour before ruining part of their kids childhood.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Going back to what I said about musically copying - here's a modern Korean< 
>>>>br>> pop song. It's simultaneously humourous, tragic, and irritating.
>>>>
>>>> This is the legacy of years of exposure to the worst and most
>>>> unforgiveable modern North American pop music.
>>>> What a shame that our vapid music industries have influnced someone else
>>>> to make bigger mounds of sonic garbage than ourselves.
>>>> And check out the guy dressed as Robin (from Batman). He likely has no
>>>> idea who Robin actually is at all, and was just impressed by the fashion.
>>>>
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>>>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY
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>>>> On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 4:45 AM, Noel
>>>> <noel@arbelos.eu<mailto:noel@arbelos.eu>> wrote:
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>>>> I don't o ften comment on groups, but in this case I have to. I agree with
>>>> Mike on this one (hello Mike). This is the very peak of soulessness. These
>>>> poor mites have been programmed out of their very humanity. It doesn't
>>>> bear thinking about what they have had to endure to get them to do what
>>>> they are doing. Please make them stop. Let them out to play in the fresh
>>>> air and the fields. Let them find their souls again.
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>>>>
>>>> --- In
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>>newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
>>>> fdoddy@... wrote:
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>>>>> Mike,
>>>>>
>>>>> You actually thought the five children playing was soulless? It's mind
>>>>> numbing how cynical and bitter you are. If there is pity to had, it's on
>>>>> you, I'm afraid.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> fritz
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>>>& gt;>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>>> From: Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@...>
>>>>> To: newmellotrongroup
>>>>> 
>>>><newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com<mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>>
>>>>> Sent: Fri, Apr 22, 2011 12:47 pm
>>>>> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] OT-Future ax slingers
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>> Watched them both. One is as pitifully soulless as the other, I'm
>>>>> afraid.
>>>>>
>>>>> On 22/04/2011 16:02, Tom Doncourt wrote:
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>>>>>
>>>>> Cool! From that to this-
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>>>>> http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On Apr 22, 2011, at 10:54 AM, johnm400s911 wrote:
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>>>> > For the guitar players on the board. This will make you smile.
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0
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