Mellotronists

"Prog flavored mainstream pop"--it can happen! That string of words 
will never get me a music review job at CMJ, but they laud every 
disc that skates across their desk anyway. The material they don't 
like, they just just don't mention.

Oxymoron sounds like an ingredient in laundry detergent. Me...I'm 
just a lawnmower; you can tell me by the way I walk.

Muzak/chill-out cover of a King Crimson tune--kind of reminded me of 
a conversation I had with Dave Kean back around ten years ago when 
Mellotron Archives was operating out of Moses Lake, Washington--at 
the time he was moonlighting in a bar band and renting out discs to 
karaoke machines in the area. A number of the songs on the karaoke 
discs that originally had Mellotron on them were quite faithfully 
reproduced as instrumentals and we believe they also used the real 
thing! Strawberry Fields Forever was there in its original glory 
w/it's flute intro and pitching. The Theremin was on Good Vibrations 
and a number of other songs used the original vintage sounds...so 
these karaoke people must have had access to some collectable 
equipment...you think these people raided Rockfield, Noise New 
Jersey, Bearsville or Steve Fisk's studio in the dead of 
night...back then?!??

Has anyone seen the new Sheraton Hotel commercial with that band that sings 
the song "Let's Spend the Night Together"  There is tron everywhere.  3 violins 
and cello.  Would this be Doddy's influence?
                                            Bill "the Doctor" Rudloff

Has anyone seen the new Sheraton Hotel commercial with that band that sings 
the song "Let's Spend the Night Together" \ufffdThere is tron everywhere. \ufffd3 violins 
and cello. \ufffdWould this be Doddy's influence?
\ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffd \ufffdBill "the Doctor" Rudloff


I can't take credit for that one.

FD