Mellotronists

So did they gift the Mellotron to Uriah Heep on the
"Magician's Birthday"

...sorry, I couldn't resisit...

-jh


--- George Summers <gpsummers@...> wrote:

> That "Uriah Heep" mellotron, s/n 1080, was once owned by
> magician 
> David Copperfield. Copperfield got it because his idol,
> English 
> magician, David Nixon had had a Mk II mellotron in the mid
> 60's. 
> Magician David Nixon was also working with Les Bradley on
> the 
> promotion of the mellotron. Both Nixon and Copperfield were
> quite 
> good on the mellotron and I've heard that John Lennon
> commented, in 
> Rolling Stone, that," those guys could play the dickens out
> of those 
> mellotrons".
> George Summers  Houston, Texas  USA   Remember the Alamo!
> 
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