Mellotronists

On Sun, 9 May 2004, Jeff Coulter wrote:


oh yeah... i forgot to mention it last nite [it was late]:
ken leaonard made his way down from boston for the show!
nice to see a tron fan drive hundreds of miles to catch a show.
THAT'S dedication!
thanks ken - it was great to see ya!

so that makes 4 people from this list all in one place:
ken leonard
jimmy moore
duncan goddard
myself


> just two words:
> f*cking phenomenal!
> 
> just got back from the show...
> two mellotrons [jimmy moore's "formicatron' and my plain vanilla model]
> 
> they opened the show with about 15 minutes of superb tron noodling.
> two tron flutes at once in a beautiful church atmosphere will raise
> the hair on your neck and give you the chills...
> it gave me flashbacks of the tangerine dream show i saw in '77.
> [in a good way - a VERY good way!]
> it was great to hear two trons being played by a couple chaps that
> know how to play them well.
> 
> they have a couple very neat and clean racks of doepfor MAQ16/3
> sequencers, racked synth modules, and neat keyboard controllers
> with sliders to control the rack modules. very efficient rigs to
> drag across the ocean, and they can pump a lot of sound out of
> them.
> 
> at this moment they are playing live on the air at the WXPN studio.
> [WXPN is the U of Penn radio station that features the programme
> "star's end" - a cosmic/space music show that's been on the air
> for over 20 years now, hosted by chuck van zyl. chuck is the
> person that sponsors these concerts on the Penn campus known as
> "the gatherings" (see http://www.thegatherings.org)]
> kudos to chuck for organizing these shows.
> [carrying the torch that our own gino wong lit many years ago]
> 
> btw: both trons performed without a hitch and sounded haunting
> in the church where the concert took place. gorgeous!
> 
> thanks to jimmy moore for the loan of his one of a kind tron!
> the two of them drew quite a crowd after the show with gawkers
> staring open-mouthed at the workings of these things...
> [my EMS Synthi-AKS also made a few people drool - i think duncan
> will have to get himself one ASAP, as he really enjoyed twiddling
> around on it for some extended wierdness which they are so good at]
> 
> so... if you are a fan of classic 70s era tangerine dream/berlin
> school electronic music you MUST catch RMI live and support
> these guys - they do it as well as anyone i have ever heard.
> oh, and i need to mention the guitar playing was totally dead
> on appropriate and added a great deal of interest to the jams.
> they really play together well and keep things interesting for
> every moment of a performance... it's not a clone of TDream,
> as they truly make it their own. they use some VERY original
> synth patches that they obvioulsy have put a lot of work into,
> and the gutarist's pallete of sounds is HUGE.
> 
> thanks for a great show guys!
> have a safe flight, and please come back to philly again soon.
> i'll be glad to loan you my tron again if you need it.
> 
> g'nite all... i'm beat... too many steps with a tron in my hands
> today... i am really going to feel this tomorrow... jeff
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 dependent on others' kindness, how can it be that in
 the middle we neglect kindness towards others?"
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