Mellotronists

> From: zappaboggs <zappaboggs@...>
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   > Why would they do that??  Do they think we're stupid???

(Heh-heh, you believe they were thinking of you when they filmed
this?)

Mike Pinder explains it somewhere on his web site
(http://www.mikepinder.com).  The Moodies are miming to the
instrumental tracks of the recording on this, but the vocal tracks are
real.  The keyboard not a Mellotron, it's a Hammond A3.  (Hey, at
least the Hamond A3 is shaped roughly like a Mellotron; imagine if
they only had a Farfisa Combo Compact available.)  And I don't think
the bass is plugged in.

Back when this film was made that approach was very typical, just as
in the MTV 80's dancing to a playback of the song in front of a camera
was typical.  After all, the Moodies were considered a pop singing
group at the time, and this film probably wasn't intended to be a
definitive cultural reference.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
don@...
http://www.till.com