The Mellotron Group

Sorry sir... she maybe beautiful and talented, but she expresses waaaay to  
much emotion. Anddddddd... she's not sitting in a chair responding to adult 
 programmed queues. I, for one, doubt she was even in high school band.
 
 
In a message dated 4/25/2011 9:30:19 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
wbeith@sbcglobal.net writes:

 
 
 
 
He is my contribution......Just discovered Grace Potter
 
 
Grace Potter    _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYrdfFpxTXQ_ (h
ttp://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_ (mailto:lsf5275@aol.com)  
wrote:



 


This is what happens when these kinds of experiments go horribly  wrong.
 
_http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfK-UzQ48JE) 
 
 
 
 
In a message dated 4/25/2011 9:17:49 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, 
_tomdcour@amnh.org_ (mailto:tomdcour@amnh.org)   writes:

 
getting my bodily fluids drained has always been a concern of mine- I  
figure the chinese and russians do as good a job  
as anyone else
P.S. I like what you wrote Chris


On Apr 25, 2011, at 8:56 AM, John Hammaren wrote:



 



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)   [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Thomas 
C.  Doncourt
Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 5:37 PM
To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
Cc:  _'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:'newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) '
Subject:  RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax slingers

 
 
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) 
>  [mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Gary Brumm
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 4:00  PM
> To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto: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%20.com) 
>  [mailto:_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) ]  On Behalf Of Chris Dale
> Sent: Sunday, April 24, 2011 10:43  AM
> To: _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) 
>  Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: OT-Future ax  slingers
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> _http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIRW_elc-rY_ 
(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) <mailto:_noel@arbelos.eu_ 
(mailto:noel@arbelos.eu) >>  wrote:
>
>
> 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.
>
>
> --- In
> _newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com) <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>,
>  fdoddy@... wrote:
>>
>>
>>  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.
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>>
>>  fritz
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&  gt;>
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>>
>>  -----Original Message-----
>> From: Mike Dickson  <mike.dickson@...>
>> To: newmellotrongroup
>>  <_newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com_ 
(mailto: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-
>>
>> _http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM_ (http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvM) 
>>
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>>  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_ 
(http://www.youtube.com/embed/yE7waNi5dc0) 
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