Mellotronists

I like mattias from anglagard's answer best.

I went to this European electronic music festival some years ago,
kelmdag, or s.th. Like that, and this guy - a friend of a friend, put us
up overnight when we got back, b/c the bus back up north was the next
day, it turned out he was the old mellotron player w/spring!  I remember
looking at the "laser's Edge" reissue of their rekkid, and seeing him on
the group pic!  Blimey!  It *is* him!  He was a really nice &
interesting fellow iirc (this was, like, *years* ago)

the first band I saw w/a mellotron onstage was Ultrasound, amazingly
enough, I mean I've seen loads of bands since the early '80's when I
started going to gigs, but Ultrasound was the first.  Man, they were
terrible!  The keyboard player looked like he'd blown his entire advance
on vintage keys - he had a hammond and a minimoog as well iirc, but the
sound was just mush, and the band were playing the old race you to thee
end of thee song palaver, so it sucked.  Shame really, coz they were
good on "Later" and they had "potential", fwiw.  The support band was
Dark Star, who wrer this really great "starless & bible black"
influenced trio, who used to be 3/5 of Levitation, who were also great.
They blew ultrasound off stage.  I'm sure the mellotron was not any kind
of faCTOR IN THIS, BUT WHAT the hell.

I picked up some of the new Yes reissues on Rhino over the past few
weeks, coz they were 4.99 in hmv's cheap box.  Very, very good, I must
say, lovely sound, good sleeve notes, extra tracks, and praise be, NO
LIMITER ABUSE!!!!  Shout it from the heavens, minutes pass by before it
peaks at digital full-scale!!!  Hooray!!

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Norman Fay
www.vietgrove.com

-- 
Norman Fay