Mellotronists

Wow! Someone else who remembers Sigmund Snopek III! The stuff he did 
sounds like it should have wound up on Ralph Records...has an ever-
shifting Supersister/Zappa time change...one of the few longwinded 
projects that is both very cohesive and tight, but keeps its sense of 
humor. Imagine C.W. Vrtacek in Gong. I can see Cuneiform reissuing 
this stuff.

I sort of expected Jon Brion to be more on the level of Patrick 
Warren or Mitchell Froom... the great work that percolates up from 
the depths all over the Macy Gray album "On How Life Is" I think was 
seriously overlooked. Hi solo album really didn't knock me flat...but 
I've heard his live performances are quite stunning, even though his 
quivver of obscure keyboard instruments certainly isn't the spotlight.

> From: "mellotrongirl <mellotrongirl@...>" <mellotrongirl@...>
   > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:01:10 -0000
   > 
   > Wow! Someone else who remembers Sigmund Snopek III!

I, y'r humble list manager, am a major Sigmund Snopek fan.

I was first introduced to the Snopek band in '78 when I went to school in
Madison, Wisconsin and saw about 24 Snopek shows between '78 and '80.
Awesome, wonderful stuff. 

I highly recommend the recent double CD "Trinity Seas", which is a
remarkable work consisting of his original 1973 "Trinity Seas" album
and a lot of material from 1999.

  -- Don

-- 
Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
don@...
http://www.till.com

Wow, I'm shocked that *I* am not alone!

Sigmund Snopek is a local treasure, a composer whose output includes "classical" music, pipe organ music, string music, punk, rock, polka, and everything in-between. Ha graduated from the same school I did, UW-Milwaukee.

Don, 78-80 were great years to see him -- shortly after that came the break-up of his band SNOPEK, and he began to find his style as a solo performer. Even into the 80s, I saw him at least that many times at his regular gigs and at every outdoor festival in Milwaukee (of which there are many). 

Cool there are three of us. If I see him (which happens every once in a while), I'll see if he still has his Tron, and if he'd be interested in this list.

Bill

   > From: "mellotrongirl <mellotrongirl@...>" <mellotrongirl@...>
   > Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 22:01:10 -0000
   > 
   > Wow! Someone else who remembers Sigmund Snopek III!

I, y'r humble list manager, am a major Sigmund Snopek fan.

I was first introduced to the Snopek band in '78 when I went to school in
Madison, Wisconsin and saw about 24 Snopek shows between '78 and '80.
Awesome, wonderful stuff. 

I highly recommend the recent double CD "Trinity Seas", which is a
remarkable work consisting of his original 1973 "Trinity Seas" album
and a lot of material from 1999.

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