Mellotronists

As far as I know it's the same sound but eq'ed differently.

There's no doubt that it's a 400. The 400 Cello sound is in Calling
Occupants as well, and the present owner of the Klaatu tron (can't recall
his name) was at Tronto in 2001 I believe.
Dan Miso - would you remember who this was?

When the Klaatu album first came out in 1976, there was a lot of speculation
that it was the Beatles reformed under a new name. The main hint being that
one of Ringo Starr's album covers had Ringo dressed as the Klaatu character
from The Day The Earth Stood Still (a superimposed face over Michael
Rennie's). There was also the vocal style in Sub Rosa Subway which emulates
McCartney's singing. Ditto for Dr. Marvello (George Harrison).  Also - no
production / music credits were listed anywhere on the album. And Little
Neutrino has to be the only song lyrically accurate about sub-atomic
particles passing from the sun!


Chris





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From: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com]On Behalf Of Bernie Kornowicz
Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 11:50 AM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Klaatu


--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, kenmerb@... wrote:
>
> Bernie,
>
> "Calling Occupants" was done on an M400, not a MKII.  I did an
instrumental
> version a few years back on my M400 and the Mellotron sounded
pretty close
> (except for the backwards intro I threw in there).  I had the MP3
out on my
> "TronSounds" web site for a long time before the site went down.
Let me know if
> you'd like to hear it, I'll send you the MP3.
>
> I think the name of the first Klaatu CD was 3:47 EST, and it had a
big
> picture of the sun on it.  Their best stuff was on that album
(CD).  Along with
> "Calling Occupants", a song named "Dr. Marvello" featured
Mellotron (flutes &
> 3-violins), but I can't recall any others with
Mellotron.  "Subrosa Subway" is
> another great song fron that CD,and "Little Neutrino" has some
interesting synth
> sounds.  None of their other albums featured Mellotron (excep for
a snippet
> here and there), or had songs as great as the first one, IMHO.
>
> Ken M.
> M400 #1217
> MK II #247
> (both soon coming out of storage in Dallas)
>

Ken, do you know if they used the M400 Violins? The string sound
on "Calling Occupants" seems to have a sound very similar to the
MkII 3 Violins. I have the MkII 3 Violins on my M400 and they sound
quite a bit different.

And yes, I'd love you hear your version :)

Bernie









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