Mellotronists

On Wed, 7 Nov 2007, Chris Dale wrote:

>
>   Actually, if someone tells you "Mellotron" or "Chamberlin" over a
>   telephone, and you don't know what they are at all, then it's likely
>   to be written as a mistake.


this stuff usually comes in via fax, hand-written by
the studio's "go-fer"/intern. and it's not entirely
his/her fault - it's just that keeping track of these
things is not a priority for anyone involved - they
all have more pressing things to be concerned with.
sometimes an act has responsible management that can
understand how important some of this can be, but
this is quite rare.

then try adding a language barrier - like the faxes
i would get from europe and asia. it's a wonder the
records ever came out at all...



>   What I want to know is:
>
>   1)  whose stupid idea is it to shrink the TV screen to half a page at
>      the end of a show with some interrupting (rude) announcer talking,
>      and rolling the credits by at 1000 miles per second?
>
>   2) whose dumb idea is it to have the station logo take up the entire
>      bottom corner of the TV screen?
>
>   3) Can we draw and quarter this person? :)


these are just some of the reasons i can't watch "regular"
television anymore. if i were to be a film producer i would
have a clause that this could never be done. i can't believe
that SAG and other unions are allowing this to happen at all.

if i were a gambling man i would bet that something WILL be
done about this in the near future - there are actual "rules"
about film credits and "above the line" / "below the line"
in the contracts that everyone signs.



>   ..jeff [resident "illiterate, romper room reject"]


i have certainly been called worse.


>   Well I can be referred to as a "monosyllabic moron" sometimes.


...there are worse things to be called.

...jeff