The Mellotron Group

> Had a great day today with my Edinburgh hosts Mark and Noel of Arbelos fame. We had a pub lunch and then they took me to meet "The Mellotron Man," the equally legendary Mike Dickson. 
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> Mike lives on the 5th floor of a walk-up townhouse and dragged not only a vintage Mellotron up there, but also a Hammond organ. Mike then proceeded to give us a full M'tron demonstration and changed out many sets of tapes for us to hear different sounds. He even let us play it--I'd never done that before. Maybe the highlight was hearing Mike play "Watcher of the Skies" or some vintage Crim. Absolutely magical sound. The Mellotron has a presence that just can't be duplicated by digital samplers and I've owned a few of them. 
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> We then repair to yet another pub for some more beers. A terrific day. Thank you Mark and Noel!
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Mike,
Sound like you gave Pete a woody!
Pete

guitargarden1 wrote:
> Had a great day today with my Edinburgh hosts Mark and Noel of Arbelos fame. We had a pub lunch and then they took me to meet "The Mellotron Man," the equally legendary Mike Dickson.
>
> Mike lives on the 5th floor of a walk-up townhouse and dragged not only a vintage Mellotron up there, but also a Hammond organ. Mike then proceeded to give us a full M'tron demonstration and changed out many sets of tapes for us to hear different sounds. He even let us play it--I'd never done that before. Maybe the highlight was hearing Mike play "Watcher of the Skies" or some vintage Crim. Absolutely magical sound. The Mellotron has a presence that just can't be duplicated by digital samplers and I've owned a few of them.
>
> We then repair to yet another pub for some more beers. A terrific day. Thank you Mark and Noel!

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Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2010 5:21 PM

Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: [flowerkingsofficialmail] Mellotron and more

Boinnnnnnnnnng

In a message dated 9/7/2010 2:02:15 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, mike.dickson@gmail.com writes:

Sounds like it!!!