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Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson - Cirkus

2008-07-08 by john barrick

Well why didn't you say so in the first place...


Mark Pring wrote:
>
> Hi John, the smiley face was there, but what the hell it's only 60 
> feet of tape times 35 keys, you wouldn't need to bother doing the 
> rythmn section!  :)
>
> Mark
>
>
> --- On *Tue, 7/8/08, john barrick /<astroboy@cinci.rr.com>/* wrote:
>
>     From: john barrick <astroboy@cinci.rr.com>
>     Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson - Cirkus
>     To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>     Date: Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 5:26 PM
>
>     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
>     <mailto:MAinPsych%40aol.com> /<MAinPsych@aol. com
>     <mailto:MAinPsych%40aol.com>>/* wrote:
>     >
>     > From: MAinPsych@aol. com <mailto:MAinPsych%40aol.com>
>     <MAinPsych@aol. com <mailto:MAinPsych%40aol.com>>
>     > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: King Crimson - Cirkus
>     > To: newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com
>     <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.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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