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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson - Cirkus

2008-07-08 by john barrick

Forgive me if you put a little smiley face at the end there and I didn't 
receive it, Mark, but that's a fairly major undertaking.
jb


Mark Pring wrote:
>
> I suppose you could put mike's tapes back in for a bit.
>
> Mark
> --- On *Tue, 7/8/08, MAinPsych@aol.com /<MAinPsych@aol.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: MAinPsych@aol.com <MAinPsych@aol.com>
>     Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson - Cirkus
>     To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>     Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 3:55 PM
>
>     In a message dated 7/7/2008 6:51:31 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
>     tomdcour@amnh. org writes:
>
>         I think 5a is the Seven Stones sound. I remember 5c as the
>         Cirkus sound
>         although someone who actually owns a MkII would know for sure.
>         I've
>         played around with the "hammond' organ on the Pinder sample
>         disk and it
>         sounds like a dead ringer for "Seven Stones". The 6c Church
>         organ is the
>         sound Pinder used. I hope Markus doesn't die or the world end
>         if I am
>         mistaken in any of this!
>
>     *I do have Mike Pinder's original tapes from my #134 which would
>     clear the mystery; HOWEVER, 134 has had bespoke tapes in it since
>     its restoration in 2003-2004, and my memory isn't that good. 
>     Brian Kehew's 2nd MkII has standard MkII tapes, so he could
>     readily tell which organ is which, but I don't believe that Brian
>     is on this list.*
>     ** 
>     *6C is definitely Pinder's choice.*
>     ** 
>     *Frank Samagaio*
>
>
>
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