The Mellotron Group

On 08/31/2014 02:56 PM, Mike Dickson mike.dickson@gmail.com 
[newmellotrongroup] wrote:
> That's a really weird and (frankly) weird attitude to take.  There are
> only a finite number of Mellotrons around, and people want to use /that
> sound/.  How else to get it?

I cannot afford one.  Even if I got rid of my family and relegeted all 
of the other things I might want to spend serious money on to to the 
dunce corner I still probably could not come up with the gelt for the 
real thing. But I can (have) bought the Mike Pinder tron disc for Akai. 
  Close enough for rock 'n' roll (etc).

> To berate people for wanting the sound they love by whatever means is
> open to them is fine by me.  I am sure you can be a purist if you like,
> but it's a strange kind of existence to make for yourself.  Yes, /I/
> know and /you /know that *the real thing *sound better than a sampler,
> but in the absence of one, why not use the other?

Amen, my eternal brother in arms.

> If people want to put samplers inside fake Mellotron cases then I really
> couldn't care less.  You are seemingly being concerned with the medium
> and not the message.  The instrument is just a means by which the sound
> - which is ultimately all that this (or any other instrument) /is/ - can
> be communicated, and most people who hear it and love it couldn't care.

If the mix is right I'm not sure most of us can even differentiate.

> Do you feel you are being left behind?

*inhales, holds breath*
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