The Mellotron Group

I don't recall. I'd have to go back through my photographs or ask David  
Myers. He was the keyboard player the last time that I saw them.
 
 
In a message dated 5/3/2012 3:17:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rmrmax@yahoo.com writes:

 
 
 
 
Frank,


Thanks for correcting me.  Shows you "guys" how little I  really know about 
Mellotrons.  But I'm learning, however slowly...   I guess the back of the 
cabinet fooled me ?  But whatever source of  Mellotron samples that were 
used, sounded very authentic to these ears.   Maybe I have Tinnitus too !  Not 
that I'm necessarily interested, do you  know what is the source of the 
Mellotron samples that TMB use ?


BTW - my friend who I went to the concert is an acquaintance of  Dave 
Kerzner of IK Multi Media Sampletron who was also at the show and he  indirectly 
introduced me to Dave, who lives somewhere in South Florida.   Dave did not 
point this (TMBs use of samples) out to me.  Over  enthusiastically, I asked 
/ "begged" Dave if there was any possibility if  someday in the future, I 
could visit him and see and hear his Mellotron.   He replied "We don't do 
that" and walked away.  Oh well...    


With respect to the organ, do they use an M3 ?


Robert







 
  
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Sadly, Robert, you weren't close to a real 400 lat night either.  It's a 
keyboard controller inside a Mellotron shaped cabinet. I know this,  because 
I've seen it up close and I know that they don't use a real one. I  think 
Pierre Vielleux  was probably the only member/keys player in TMB  who actually 
used one on stage.
 

 
 

 

 
In a message dated 5/3/2012 2:15:10 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
rmrmax@yahoo.com writes:

 

 
Last night, I had the pleasure of seeing The Musical Box perform  "The Lamb 
Lies Down On Broadway" at The Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood,  Florida.


They were fantastic and paid great attention to detail in every  respect; 
the sound was great too!


Any of you "guys" who like the Gabriel era Genesis who have never  seen The 
Musical Box perform before, I highly recommend you check them  out.


For their encore, they played "The Musical Box" and "Watcher of  the 
Skies".  By then, several of the other concert goers who had the  better seats on 
the floor area near the center had left, so I had the  opportunity to see 
them up close.   Their keyboardist had a  beautiful black M400 Mellotron and 
it sounded wonderful to my ears.  An  RMI Electric Piano was sitting on top 
of the Mellotron and another keyboard  was sitting on top of the RMI.  He 
also had an organ that I "think" was  a Hammond, but it was not a B3 and I 
don't believe it was a C3 or  A100  either.  There was a Leslie speaker sitting 
on the far right of the  stage.



I don't remember ever being in such close proximity  (approximately 20 
feet) to a real Mellotron in all my life; what a thrill it  was !


Cheers,



Robert


http://www.5gig.com/The+Musical+Box-tourdates/






 
  
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