Mellotronists

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brundage, Jim" <jpb@...>
To: <mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 3:54 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] "famous" owners


Dear all

> I was talking to a friend about Mellotrons and the Uriah Heep tron came
> up. I told him that it was reportedly once owned by David Copperfield.
> (I hope I got that right)

I'm afraid the 'Copperfield' joke was too subtle for me, although I
should've known better. And I didn't even have to admit that...

> He then asked what other famous people, whether it be a professional
> musician, magician, actor or whatever, actually owns a Mellotron
> currently. It seems that many of the folks we know as being some of the
> original "Mellotron players" no longer own one. I would also assume that
> the majority of the bands listed on Andy's list do not actually own one
> and used someone else's or the studio owned one or they used... samples.
>
> Any interesting owners worth noting?

While it's highly incomplete, have a look at my 'artists' page (link from
main page):

http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/artists.htm

Actually, must add the Heep-'Tron. Speaking of which, I wasn't aware they
ever used one live, espec.not around the turn of the '80s. But I could be
proved wrong...

Andy T. (hoping to finally make the break into a proper domain name sometime
soon).