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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Your LEAST favorite Mellotron song...?

2008-03-23 by Bruce Daily

Dammit, Mike.  Now I GOTTA get high speed internet. 
Nothing else mattered until now....

   -Bruce D.


--- Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hmmm. That Mellotron film. There have always been a
> few things that have 
> bothered me about it.
> 
> 1. Eric Robinson being introduced as a
> 'personality'. Nothing else. Just 
> a personality. That sounds so /non-corporeal /it's
> quite frightening. I 
> half expect to find him as nothing more than a brain
> in jar. Like 
> something out of a ropey Dr Who episode from the
> 1960s. Maybe he was.
> 
> 2. David Nixon's sense of musical timing. Not to
> mention his choice of 
> tunes. Oh. And the decor of his house. I could also
> say that the 
> Mellotron he is playing has some shoddily adjusted
> tapes but that would 
> just be picky of me.
> 
> 3. That grin that Geoff Unwin gives at the end of
> his little speed-up, 
> slow-down, speed-up again demo. Sort of like the
> apologetic grin one 
> gives when one has broken particularly massive and
> messy wind in front 
> of your fiance's mother. Whilst on Ketamine. In a
> white suit.
> 
> But best of all
> 
> 4. That split second shot of a girl sitting on a
> massive cock at the end.
> 
> Mike
> 
> 
> 
> David Jacques wrote:
> >
> > I only have a few:
> >
> >  
> >
> > The intro song on that strange but great Mellotron
> demo video...
> >
> >  
> >
> > "Enjoy the Music"
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXtmKGkSa4 
> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrXtmKGkSa4>
> >
> >  
> >
> > then...
> >
> >  
> >
> > Gray Seal -- Elton John
> >
> >  
> >
> > Badge -- Cream
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> >
> >  
> 
> -- 
> Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> 
> 



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