The Mellotron Group

Now that was pretty neat!  I would say that performance was definitely not listless...not to mention the obvious choice between the two, aesthetically.

Also, give me real strings over whatever that simply-not-related-to-mellotron-at-all-ever sound was coming from our scraggly progsters.  Yeeesh.  I'm going to chalk that one up to a post I wrote months back about 60's groups' seemingly uncanny ability to forget what it was that made them cool.

There's lots of that about, nowadays, I'm afraid...
 



--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org> wrote:

> From: Tom Doncourt <tomdcour@amnh.org>
> Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Epitaph
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 5:08 PM
> >  Nevermind 21st century schizoid band!! Check out these
> ladies performing 21st
> > century Schizoid Man! The link is in the attachment
> >  
> > 
> >   I should've said that I was not enjoying the
> vocals and guitar and the
> > listless performance enough that by the time Peter
> Giles started snapping and
> > popping, I saw that there was still 9 minutes or so to
> go and decided to move
> > on. 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: David Jacques <mailto:djacques@csulb.edu>
> > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 7:07 AM
> > Subject: RE: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Epitaph
> > 
> > I have no idea how these musicians put up with all
> thisŠ They are all very
> > accomplished. As Nigel Tuffnel says ³It must be a
> joke.²
> > 
> > 
> > From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf
> Of Paul Tillotson
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 6:06 AM
> > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Epitaph
> > 
> >   As yet another bassist, I found the bass playing
> offensive enough that I
> > stopped the video shortly after Mr Giles got started.
> Slapping has its place:
> > in a Sly Stone song for example.
> > 
> >   PT M400 #1226
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > 
> > From: Bernie <mailto:kornowicz@cox.net>
> > 
> > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > 
> > Sent: Monday, August 11, 2008 4:43 AM
> > 
> > Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Epitaph
> > 
> > As primarily a bass player, I couldn't agree more.
> I really hate
> > that style of playing.
> > 
> > Bernie
> > 
> > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "David
> Jacques"
> > <djacques@...> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > It's really a shame as Michael Giles and
> McDonald are from the
> > original
> >> > band. Peter Giles' bass playing with that
> slapping popping crap is
> > so out of
> >> > the style of the music. What happened to that
> great Fender flat
> > round string
> >> > sound? He certainly played great bass on
> Cirkus.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > _____ 
> >> > 
> >> > From: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> >> <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
> >> > [mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> >> <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
> ] On Behalf Of lsf5275@...
> >> > Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2008 5:50 PM
> >> > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> >> <mailto:newmellotrongroup%40yahoogroups.com>
> >> > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Epitaph
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > In a message dated 8/10/2008 6:11:21 P.M.
> Eastern Daylight Time,
> >> > djacques@... writes:
> >> > 
> >> > Well, I was truly sorry that I found this on
> YouTube. And I am
> > glad I did
> >> > not see these guys when they were in LA. A
> very lackluster
> > performance of
> >> > Epitaph. I think that whatever the
> keyboardist is playing for the
> >> > "Mellotron" may possibly be the
> worst sounding samples I have yet
> > to hear.
> >> > And the end is rather embarrassing as he
> bends the pitch up and
> > then
> >> > releases the wheel before he releases the
> chord. The vocalist's
> > phrasing is
> >> > completely off. Just a bit depressing after
> seeing Crimson in 1969.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > After seeing 5 seconds of this, In think it
> is the 21st century
> > schizoid
> >> > band. And yes, it does suck. They were using
> stock Korg, "tape
> > sampler"
> >> > shit.
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > 
> >> > _____ 
> >> > 
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> > 
> >  
> >     
> 
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