Mellotronists

07030--right away I remember the zip being Hoboken, NJ as back in the 
1980's especially, it seemed Hoboken had a number of promoters and 
record labels actively marketing new music to college radio. So many 
playlists back then were mailed to that zip code--labels like Gulcher 
before they moved to Indiana, Bar None, and perhaps another half-
dozen on the mass-mailings list. And dozens of bands/musicians 
ranging from Chris Butler to Yo La Tengo. Now the Mellotron 
offered "sat idle for about ten years", so that kind of rules out Yo 
La Tengo, with their new direction of softer more ambient music being 
of the last four years, tho' they've been around a long time. But 
Chris Butler? His material utilizes a lot of unique recording 
intruments and some odd sounds a la Joe Meek at times, but it's 
another recent CD and I doubt it had Mellotron. Then again are the 
handful of recording studios there, and with all the quirky avant 
garde adventurous bands Hoboken had in the mid/late 1980's, I 
wouldn't doubt if this 'tron was in a studio, a number of bands not 
on very many Mellotron recordings lists may be out there unknown to 
us. Hoboken still has a very high per capita musicians ratio--I've 
felt that for close to twenty years out here on the West Coast.