Mellotronists

It is true that Keith Moon was a great fan of surf music - hence the 
inclusion of Little Deuce Coupe on one of the Who EP's (remember 
them?).  Also, Keith named The Ventures In Space as one of his 
favourite albums of all time, and that Waikiki Run (by the Surfaris) 
gretly influenced the Who's The Ox.  On the subject of the Surfaris, 
Terry Gilliam's segment of the 1999 Monty Python Anniversary Special on 
BBC2 used Point Panic as its background music so perhaps he's a fan too.
I greatly agree that music does not need lyrics - as someone once said, 
you can better appreciate the beauty of the melody when you aren't 
being distracted by the words.
Also as a musician, I find singers the most irritationg people on God's 
earth.  All the ones I've ever worked with have been the most 
appallingprima donnas.  They always think they're the star, and 
everyone else is just the backing group.  Hang 'em all, I say.
Yours tolerantly,
Steve Tebble
(Bristol, England)
(and still no Tron yet)

> Also, Keith named The Ventures In Space as one of his favourite 
albums of all time...

A fine instrumental album reminiscent of the Tornado's Telstar (which 
they covered on another album) with space-age sounds that were 
produced by "traditional" instruments (non-synthesizer). I'm still 
trying to decipher what some of those instruments were.

Bernie