The Mellotron Group

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From: Hessel Herder

To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 6:42 PM

Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mello Docu

Hi Hessel

Does anyone know if the Mellotron Documentary “Mellodrama” is available on DVD already?

Any of you seen it already? Any good?

Don't know whether it's on DVD yet (doubt it), but yes, I've seen it. Some fascinating footage, some, er, less fascinating, and a fairly amateurish vibe about the whole thing (wildly variable sound quality/background noise etc.), not to mention loads of factual errors. And why bother interviewing people who openly admit they only use samples? Odd. Best interviewees? A couple of the American Chamberlin guys (Patrick Warren and Jon Brion especially) and our very own Mattias Olsson. Worth seeing for some of the insights, though, not to mention the footage of a Chamberlin's internals...

Andy T.