The Mellotron Group

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Jack Younger <e4103s@...> 
wrote:
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> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BjK0ION3ZQk

Wow! Thanks for posting that, Jack. Sure took me back. Close to 50 
years now. Thanks also to Mark for the original post. Can't say I 
immediately caught the Moonchild reference, but was not listening under 
the best of conditions, so will have to try again later.

BTW, if anyone out there ever hears of John Zorn's project called 
Moonchild, AVOID IT LIKE THE PLAGUE! It's f**king awful. They were at 
the recent Victoriaville festival 
(http://www.fimav.qc.ca/en/edition/horaire/). Joey Barron is a good 
drummer, and Trevor Dunn was ok on bass, but I could certainly do 
without Mike Patton screaming up a lung half the time. If there were 
any actual words involved they were totally unintelligible. Zorn didn't 
even play, just ran the mixing desk (oh, apart from the "encore" when 
he came out and flailed his arms about in a half-assed attempt at 
conducting. The only thing worse was his other project, the night 
before called "The Dreamers". Boring and mostly tedious lounge music. 
At least Zorn was on stage for that one, though all he did was 
more "conducting" - which hardly seemed necessary - from a chair, and 
only played on one piece, for about three minutes, max. Total waste of 
time if you ask me (you didn't? Oh, sorry. Back to 'trons, then).

Jim Bailey