Mellotronists

> From: Rick Blechta <rick@...>
   > Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 07:44:21 -0400
   > 
   > Also, by your thinking, would everyone else in the band have to
   > be using exactly the same equipment as Genesis used. 

Don't they, pretty much?  

Or is the guitarist really playing a plastic toy guitar behind a
cardboard cutout of a Les Paul?  :-)

   > There's a big difference between having real instruments but
   > faking the playing because you aren't good enough, and have to
   > use something out of expediency, but being able to play the shit
   > out of the music, which the present TMB keyboard player does.

If he simply played a digital sampler keyboard that would be
expediency.  But since he built a fake Mellotron, he shouldn't be
surprised if music fans suspect other forms of fakery.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California
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