On May 17, 2006, at 6:22 PM, Stan Cotey wrote:
And for that matter, are there female ‘tron players any *not* named Anna?
Stan
No, you must change your name to Anna if you're female and want to play mellotron professionally. Little known fact, but you CAN look it up on Wikipedia.
I mean, seriously, can you imagine a mellotron player being named Muffy or Shirley? Margaret was a big, big stretch but her professional mellotron playing was very limited in scope, plus she only got away with it because she was of British royal birth and the Queen passed some sort of law or something.
I've also heard that when Martinge scrapes together enough dosh for that sex change operation, he will be changing his name to Anna to conform to the accepted norms (and I'm not referring to Leete here!).
Rick