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Re: [Mellotronists] 35th Anniversary....Words of Wizzzdom.....

2004-03-02 by Jerry Korb

ceccles_ca wrote:

> Yes are doing a 35th Anniversary tour.  Good god!  They might need to
> take a pee break every 20 minutes!  Good thing an LP side wasn't any
> longer.
>
> Hey...  Gabriel used a Telephone booth on stage....  Maybe Yes could
> have one of those handy portable toilets.  (The Yes logo on the door!)
> That would be as much fun as Spinal Tap's Stonehenge rocks!
>
> What do you usually say when you are overdue for a wizz and you
> finally get there?    YES!     Clay

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Hi Clay and gang,

Thanks for the announcement of  YES-Tour-35.
Wasn't aware of it.    The band members disposed to
frequent Kidney Taps might need to invest in Detrol.
.....Gotta Go , Gotta Go , Gotta Go....

Hey Chris Dale, you think you can convince Wakeman
to use the old  Wake-O-Tron for old times' sake ??

In 1993, the Moody Blues performed at the Stowe
Arts Centre with the Vermont Symphony Orch.
During halftime intermission, the women's restroom
line was 3X longer than the men's.  Suddenly,
one  lady broke ranks and zoomed into the men's loo.
"When 'ya gotta, 'ya gotta.  "

You can "depend" on that, mates.

Cheers, JK

(special tags seen in staff car-park at  VT University
Hospital :     "PP-DOC " and   "URN8"   ) .......hee-hee

Re: [Mellotronists] 35th Anniversary....Words of Wizzzdom.....

2004-03-04 by Chris Dale

Hi there Jerry /all

I read somewhere that they're supposed to be bringing the old Roger Dean stage sets with them (but who knows whether that's accurate). If true, maybe Wakeman *would* resume using his old machine again but I may have jinxed the idea since I made samples of the tapes in that machine for him.

On the 10CC bit, I'm pretty sure I remember us discussing this on the list before - that there was a total of over 100 or so voices. There's an interview with Lol Creme somewhere on the net where he mentions this as well. There's also that cello sound which is created using the Gizmo device, which sounds like it can be heard more clearly on 'Lazy Ways' (on the 1976 album that followed "Original Soundtrack" - can't recall the name of it right now)

I've also noticed other people's versions of that same vocal sound that appear occasionally in both pop and prog music (Billy Joel - Just The Way You Are, McCartney - close of Take It Away, Steve Hackett - Voice of Necam, Camel - Tell Me)

Apart from tape replay devices, the only thing that might get as close to that sound (in the old days) is perhaps a vocoder.

By the way - since we're on the topic of certain sounds in music, does anyone know which keyboard is used for the high pitched synth in the intro line of "In the Mood" by Robert Plant? (Is it an ARP?) I never cared much for his caterwalling in Led Zeppelin, ( I thought it spoiled some of the moods set by the music) but I have to say

that those high (strings?) are another unique sound that kind of catches the listeners ear (albeit briefly).

Still recovering from the effects of a severe inner ear infection, (extreme dizziness - can't stand up and I can't even look at my turntable!) I've been laying back watching the ceiling spin and listening to a lot of music on CD and tape lately. In the Mood was on one of my old tapes hence my question.

With the effects of the dizziness it's taken me about 45 minutes to write this so I'll say goodnight.

Chris

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Hey Chris Dale, you think you can convince Wakeman
to use the old Wake-O-Tron for old times' sake ??

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Cheers, JK
(special tags seen in staff car-park at VT University
Hospital : "PP-DOC " and "URN8" ) .......hee-hee

Re: [Mellotronists] 35th Anniversary....Words of Wizzzdom.....

2004-03-04 by Andy Thompson

----- Original Message -----

From: Chris Dale

To: MELLOTRONISTS-LIST ; Jerry Korb

Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 7:18 AM

Subject: Re: [Mellotronists] 35th Anniversary....Words of Wizzzdom.....

Chris

By the way - since we're on the topic of certain sounds in music, does anyone know which keyboard is used for the high pitched synth in the intro line of "In the Mood" by Robert Plant? (Is it an ARP?) I never cared much for his caterwalling in Led Zeppelin, ( I thought it spoiled some of the moods set by the music) but I have to say

that those high (strings?) are another unique sound that kind of catches the listeners ear (albeit briefly).

Well, I remember seeing a live pic of Plant's band at the time, and Jezz Woodroffe was playing a Jupiter 8 and a couple of other things. The JP-8's extremely versatile, so maybe? Then again, I s'pose it could've been anything... The pic on the back of Woodroffe's hard-to-find (and not v.good, if truth be told) solo album from '80, 'Opposite Directions', lists (on the synth front):

several Yamaha CS-series

Polymoog

MiniMoog

Roland SH-1/JP-4

Oberheim 2-voice

and a Mellotron, which barely gets used.

The Plant album was three years later, wwhich was a world away back then, so who knows?

Andy T.

Re: [Mellotronists] 35th Anniversary....Words of Wizzzdom.....

2004-03-04 by Jeff Coulter

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, Chris Dale wrote:

> Hi there Jerry /all

[snip]

> Still recovering from the effects of a severe inner ear infection,
> (extreme dizziness - can't stand up and I can't even look at my
> turntable!) I've been laying back watching the ceiling spin and
> listening to a lot of music on CD and tape lately. In the Mood was on
> one of my old tapes hence my question. 
> 
> With the effects of the dizziness it's taken me about 45 minutes to
> write this so I'll say goodnight. 



hope you are feeling better soon chris.

[jeez... and i used to spend all that money on 
"trendy chemical amusement aids" for the same effect.]

;O) jeff



> Chris