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From: bradschuman <bradschuman@...>
Sent: Apr 6, 2005 9:46 AM
To: Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Mellotronists] Re: Blechta eats crow...



For a good laugh, you must perform "Stairway" hillbilly style!  The 
recorder part could be done on a fiddle, the drums on a washboard, the 
guitar on a banjo, and the bass on a broom w/plucked twine.  (any good 
tron sounds here?)
Come to think of it, that would turn ANY Zep song into a "good laugh"!

Weird Al, eat your heart out!  --  Brad

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Greetings All,     Interesting point which Brad just made.

Did y'all know that there's a Moody Blues CD at Amazon.Com 
highlighting their greatest hits performed by country music stars ??

.....Well, Tarnation!   Guess I'll fire-up my gas-operated Mellytron
and sit in the woodshed drinkin'  'Shine .......     

Sure 'nuff wanna hear them Steel Guitars do pitch sweeps.   -- Jethro Bodine







 
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> 
> ".....Well, Tarnation!   Guess I'll fire-up my gas-operated Mellytron
> and sit in the woodshed drinkin'  'Shine ....... "

That's what "Festus Wakeman" said to U.S. Marshall Matt Dillon just 
before he blew up his Mellytron!

In a message dated 4/6/2005 12:22:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jkorb@... writes:

> For a good laugh, you must perform "Stairway" hillbilly style!  The 
> recorder part could be done on a fiddle, the drums on a washboard, the 
> guitar on a banjo, and the bass on a broom w/plucked twine.  (any good 
> tron sounds here?)
> Come to think of it, that would turn ANY Zep song into a "good laugh"!
> 

I actually heard a cover of the Moodies' "Legend of a Mind" on XM radio the 
other day, done by a bluegrass band.  It sounded good through the acoustic 
guitar intro, and then it got weird.......banjos, fiddles, jug bass....no Tron 
obviously.  Actually, my M400 #1217 is probably one of the very few Trons out 
there to have been recorded by a country band (don't know why I'm bragging about 
this).  Barefoot Jerry (no relation to the Professor) owned it and used it in 
their studio.  They claimed to be a "Country Acid" band or something like 
that.  They even used a Minimoog on one of the Mellotron songs.  I bought the CD 
(because my Tron is on it) but I can't say that I recommend it.

Ken M.

In a message dated 4/6/2005 12:22:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jkorb@... writes:

> Did y'all know that there's a Moody Blues CD at Amazon.Com 
> highlighting their greatest hits performed by country music stars ??
> 

OK, this must be what I heard on XM.  I wonder if the songs blend together? 
;-)


Ken M.

> > Did y'all know that there's a Moody Blues CD at Amazon.Com 
> > highlighting their greatest hits performed by country music stars ??
> > 
> 
> OK, this must be what I heard on XM.  I wonder if the songs blend 
together? 
> ;-)
> 
> 
> Ken M.

Blending a medley of bluegrass songs together would pretty much be what 
the Grateful Dead did a lot of!
Now THAT'S "acid country"!

Brad