Mellotronists

In a message dated 4/6/2005 12:22:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jkorb@... writes:

> For a good laugh, you must perform "Stairway" hillbilly style!  The 
> recorder part could be done on a fiddle, the drums on a washboard, the 
> guitar on a banjo, and the bass on a broom w/plucked twine.  (any good 
> tron sounds here?)
> Come to think of it, that would turn ANY Zep song into a "good laugh"!
> 

I actually heard a cover of the Moodies' "Legend of a Mind" on XM radio the 
other day, done by a bluegrass band.  It sounded good through the acoustic 
guitar intro, and then it got weird.......banjos, fiddles, jug bass....no Tron 
obviously.  Actually, my M400 #1217 is probably one of the very few Trons out 
there to have been recorded by a country band (don't know why I'm bragging about 
this).  Barefoot Jerry (no relation to the Professor) owned it and used it in 
their studio.  They claimed to be a "Country Acid" band or something like 
that.  They even used a Minimoog on one of the Mellotron songs.  I bought the CD 
(because my Tron is on it) but I can't say that I recommend it.

Ken M.