Mellotronists

I certainly don't intend to sound like I'm beating the hell out of this 
hard-working group, but while the cut is a noble effort it certainly isn't 
Yes or anybody I've heard before.  The performance is ambitious, but 
plodding and ham-handed, lacking deftness and finesse. It really sounds like 
the band has just finished writing the song and is still trying to clumsily 
make their way through the arrangement together. They obviously have 
listened to a lot of Yes, but judging by the amount of synth in it (which 
sounds awfully ARP-Odyssey-ish to my ears) dates it at least post-Fragile 
era, and apart from Starcastle (which still had too much Styx flavor for me) 
I can't think of anything that was that overtly "Yessy" at the time.  The 
vocals and the blockiness of the writing makes me think of Flash, but they 
played a lot better and never got that keyboardy.  The recording space 
sounds really small, too, sounding almost like a good basement tape more 
than an engineered and large, dedicated-recording-space effort to me.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mellotrongirl" <mellotrongirl@...>
To: <Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 2004 4:30 PM
Subject: [Mellotronists] Name that tune (w/mp3 link)


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> http://www.hangdogproductions.com/mp3/MysteryProg1.mp3
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