The Mellotron Group

Sean-- if you keep trying to employ all the things you find interesting
and worthwhile about music to your own project you will be ahead of your
time and maybe you can come up with something new. That's what is really
needed these days. Use your computer, perfect your recording techniques
and do it yourself if you can. If you can't find people who are willing to
collaborate write the parts yourself , save your money and get some
session people to play them. Invite people to collaborate online, think
outside the box. If i depended on a band for my creative process I would
have jumped out a window by now.........

> Well, I can vouch for the blank stares thing. Rather disheartening. Been a
> major obstacle in trying to work with other musicians.
>
> Everything around me here in California's south valley is either very
> indie-chic or angst-drenched metal. I wonder what ever happened to finesse
> in music. Or maybe, I'm just that out of touch with frankly everything.
>
> I get very particular about what I listen to and wish to play. The
> understandings in those songs are my companion through ... things... for
> lack of a better term. I just can't come to "get" indie-chic's fetish of
> everything gritty and "authentic," whatever that means to them cuz it
> certainly don't mean the same to me. I have nothing in common with the
> screaming and posturing of the metal crowd. But that's all there is.
>
> I'd rather be immersed in the world of Workingman's Dead, or American
> Beauty, or of Led I, or Days of Future Passed because the musical vibe is
> so right, even if the lyrics are stupid. Mellotrons and pedal steels get
> me going. Clear intelligible drum parts with a bounce get me going.
> Electric guitars that sound like electric guitars not like fire alarms get
> me going. My friends look at me bug eyed, as if something were generally
> wrong with me.
>
> Long way of saying all the 20 somethings around me are miles away from
> anything any of us here hold dear. So I sit at home with my transistor
> organ and my mellotron samples and learn licks that I'll probably not
> share with anyone around where I live. Kind of pathetic really.
>
> -Sean
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