Mellotronists

Greetings, from the land of Wilma... BTW... are there any other 
members located in "hurricane country"... and if so, hopefully you 
survived with your lives, homes,... and 'Trons intact!

Now to business... while reading a local music rag a couple of weeks 
ago, I came across an interview with Trent Reznor. The article had 
a "trivia section" where they mentioned that Reznor is the owner of 
John Lennon's mellotron... I'm guessing that it's the black and gold 
Mk.2, that John used to keep in his attic in Weybridge. I don't 
remember if this has been mentioned in any of the postings... and the 
trivia section didn't give any details... can anyone on the list 
confirm this and add any information? Curious people wish to know...

That's it... 'Be Seeing You...

J.P.

MicroTron 001... wondering what "Head Like A Hole" would sound like on 
a MK.2...

In a message dated 10/30/2005 12:20:37 PM Pacific Standard Time,  
Tronlord@... writes:

Now to  business... while reading a local music rag a couple of weeks ago, I 
came  across an interview with Trent Reznor. The article had a "trivia 
section"  where they mentioned that Reznor is the owner of John Lennon's mellotron... 
 I'm guessing that it's the black and gold Mk.2, that John used to keep in 
his  attic in Weybridge. I don't 
remember if this has been mentioned in any of  the postings... and the trivia 
section didn't give any details... can anyone  on the list confirm this and 
add any information? Curious people wish to  know...



At the time The Mellotron Book was published, I believe it  was owned by 
Jimmy Ienner of Interscope Records in L.A.  I tried to contact  him to get a pic 
or two, but no luck.  Updates anyone?
 
Frank Samagaio
San Diego CA
MkII #134 / M400 #908
author, The Mellotron  Book

On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 MAinPsych@... wrote:

> At the time The Mellotron Book was published, I believe it  was owned by
> Jimmy Ienner of Interscope Records in L.A.  I tried to contact  him to get a pic
> or two, but no luck.  Updates anyone?


not to pick nits, but i think you mean jimmy iovine of interscope.
donnie ienner is at columbia records/sony music.

according to this blog entry, iovine kept the lennon-tron in his office:
http://www.myspace.com/maimou

excerpt:
"This was a little overwhelming. We had set our sights on some cool
indies, and suddenly we are on Jimmy Iovines leather couch looking at
John Lennon's Mellotron."

can't really tell the date from the context of the comment though :(

looks like it was still there ~2004 though:
"In Iovine's Manhattan office sat John Lennon's mellotron, as played on
Strawberry Fields Forever. Iovine invited Rice-Oxley to play it. Then he
signed the band and has taken personal responsibility for their assault on
America this year."

[from http://www.keane.at/articles/041.htm ]

...jeff

[if it was donnie ienner that had the lennon-tron i could get a pick no
problem. i have his office number and have spoken to both him and his
assistant many times over the years. we had a deal with columbia/sony for
over 10 years. we sold nearly 100 million records for them... that's NOT
a typo... {end of name-dropping/boasting - it was not music i played or
even liked - we just sold a buttload of records for sony}]

> Frank Samagaio
> San Diego CA
> MkII #134 / M400 #908
> author, The Mellotron  Book
>

In a message dated 31/10/2005 06:41:43 GMT Standard Time, jeffc@...  
writes:

iovine  kept the lennon-tron in his office


And still does.  We went to look at it when we were in LA two  years ago.  
Black and gold and very original.  A little scarred but  nothing too bad.  Lucky 
man!
 
Best,
 
Martin

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