Mellotronists

It's not an assumption. It's a fact- ONE guy stepped
up to the plate with a 50,000.00 investment to rescue
the tapes from a leaking attic in Sutton Coldfield.
The main parts inventory was headed for a dump in
Destin Florida. BOTH of the previous companies had
gone BANKRUPT trying to support the old instruments. 

Woulda, shoulda, coulda isn't worth a shilling, but
you have to give credit (yes even you Martin) to the
guy for trying something so risky just for the love of
the instrument. 

He did the same thing for the Gleeman Pentaphonic, ran
a huge demographic study and supplied the early
prototypes for the Moog Vogager, financed the initial
run of 200e modules from Buchla, rescued the Emu
document archive from a trash heap. Where is the FIRST
portable synth (EMS Putney)? Calgary. Rolling Stones
Moblie? Calgary. ALL at a NON-profit studio for ANYONE
to use. 

We alienated the wrong crew on this list and if you
and John had NEVER met or if Les hadn't passed away,
he and Kean would probably still be friends. And don't
give me a bunch of grief about "stirring up the pot"
here kids...JK, Markus and Martin are spinning the
topic to their own ends, this MY 2 bits. I am saying
it because DK is sitting on BAGS of red lense caps, MK
II front plates, knobs, blah blah blah and the guys on
this list have made that stuff un-available to us with
such a lack of TOLERANCE, respect, humor and a blind
disregard of the FACTS. 

Thank God for the stuff that has been written down
elsewhere because the empirical body of knowledge that
Terry Kelley, Steve Frothingham, Brian Kehew, Gary
Hahlbeck, Jim Herbst, Jim Blair, Damon Fox, Ron
Skinner and DK could have brought to this list will
forever be lost now. Pity.

Mark.



--- tronbros@... wrote:

>  
>  
> In a message dated 18/05/2006 11:42:37 GMT Standard
> Time,  
> jkorb@... writes:
> 
> If my  life path had taken a different direction in 
> 1989, it easily could  have been "JK"  instead of DK
> to revive Mellotron 
> interest in  the USA and elsewhere .   But history
> cannot be rewritten  .
> 
> 
> Likewise, if JB and myself had met only a few months
> earlier, things  would 
> have been very different.  To assume that only one
> person had any  interest in 
> maintaining the mellotron legacy is a tad arrogant.
>  
> Martin
>  
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