Mellotronists

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From: ferrograph@... [mailto:ferrograph@...]
Sent: 17 September 2003 21:48
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: RE: [Mellotronists] mice... and a big synth


Duncan


guys- gotta chip in here. mice was a short-lived neo-goth-prog outfit with
julianne joined by christian "bic" hayes, late of the cardiacs and
levitation,
and before dark star, his last outfit before joining the pet shop boys as
hired
gun. I saw them once at the water rats; it wasn't great.
julianne may have retained possesion of the eve-tron or found one later;


Was there ever an Eve-'Tron? I assumed they'd hired one in for
'Ultraviolet'.


in which case there's this maria-something... andy, you must've met her....


Marina. Old friend of mine, and the subject of my very first posting to this
list, over six years ago...


she was something to do with a fanzine called "the organ" & dedicated to
certain genres of keyboard music that I can't remember what specifically


Nah, just a general indie/weird/whatever 'zine. No particular keyboard
connection.


but so anyway she claimed to know where every mellotron in london was and
was apoplectic
when mine appeared out of the blue at the monarch one evening in 1995....
she
might know where it is.


Yeah, remember the story now...  :-)  Marine would like to think she knows
the whereabouts of every 'Tron in London - I think you, I, or several other
people would have a far better idea.


the one I tended once or twice in crouch end, with the sky-blue lid,
belonged
to a mate of mine who lent it to someone for a private studio and for some
obscure reason he can't retrieve it but he says it's ok.


And he's just left it there?


I don't know what became of the cocteau-tron either, but the engineer at
september sound told me it had gone "to liz (fraser)'s gay boyfriend".


What a useful thing for a girl to have.


this too had the old motor board. robin guthrie bought it on petticoat lane
market for \ufffd1.


So \ufffd1 more than yours?  :-)  And \ufffd174 less than mine.  ;-)


jobson himself was taped using eno's by-then standard pair of revoxes in a
special stand, so perhaps it was a messy divorce for the two brians. the
little
geordie fiddler brought a 400 with him, a clavinet and an sh1000 (the first
japanese synth), and used the vcs3 to process his transparent electric
violin to
great effect. his 'tron oboe allowed mackay to do more with keys himself or
play the sax. in terms of value for money, more than a match for eno, if
less
glamorous.


Never been able to hear any 'Tron oboe on their stuff, including 'Viva'.
Live use only, presumably? Anyone know if there's any good Roxy boots going
around from the mid-'70s? Or whether they still used their 'Tron after
reforming in '79?

Andy T.