Mellotronists

In a message dated 1/31/2006 12:07:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
charel196@... writes:

I heard  last year that 
Hawken barely touched the Tron provided and used samples  mostly)



Yeah, that's true. It was my Tron. I had to twist his arm for the thirty  
seconds or so that he played it on Hero and Heroine. Otherwise he used Pinder  
samples. But he had been rehearsing with the samples for months and had a far  
greater comfort zone. Plus, he hadn't played a Tron live for thirty years. And  
further, he had rearranged many of his parts and they wouldn't fit into the 
35  note limitation anymore. He would have had to relearn them all over again.
 
Regardless, I agree with your point. And at 53, my age as well, I don't  
necessarily feel like I could haul a B-3 around anymore. I still haul my Tron(s)  
around a fair amount. With the anvil case for one and the bondage cover for 
the  other(s), it works out OK. I sometimes need help getting them in and out of 
my  basement and into and back out of the back of my Expedition, but I always 
have  plenty of help at the venues, unloading, setting up and putting them 
back in the  truck. And it is loads of fun to hear them live through a big sound 
 system.
 
If I was in a working band and had to do this all the time, I'd either buy  a 
van with a handicap lift, or a Memotron or some other sample playback device. 
 More for the logistics than anything else. The Trons have never let me  down.
 
Frank