The Mellotron Group

TMB keyboard player David Myers web site:http://www.davidmyersmusic.ca/index_en.html

Last I heard he was using G Force M-Tron samples.  Hopefully samples of The Streetly tapes.  http://www.gforcesoftware.com/products/thestreetlytapes

Clay


--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, lsf5275@... wrote:
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> 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.
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> In a message dated 5/3/2012 3:17:55 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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> 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 ?
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> 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...    
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> With respect to the organ, do they use an M3 ?
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> Sent: Thursday, May 3, 2012 2:40  PM
> Subject: Re:  [newmellotrongroup] The Musical Box
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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.
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> 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.
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> They were fantastic and paid great attention to detail in every  respect; 
> the sound was great too!
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> 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.
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> 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 
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> 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 !
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> http://www.5gig.com/The+Musical+Box-tourdates/
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