The Mellotron Group

Which one's Oprah?

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "L. Richards" 
<surfbeach@...> wrote:
>
> I didn't know Jeff Foxworthy and Oprah were in a band together???
> 
> Bernie wrote:
> >
> > Wish it were true. I used to play with a guy by the name of 
Grayson 
> > Hugh who has absolute pitch. The band could never be in tune 
enough 
> > for him, especially when he was drunk.
> >
> > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSpfm6hoWE&feature=related 
> > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLSpfm6hoWE&feature=related>
> >
> > Bernie
> >
> > --- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, fdoddy@ wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > Everything is out of tune...thank the lord!
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Mark Pring markpringnz@
> > > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > > Sent: Sat, 27 Sep 2008 6:45 pm
> > > Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Being told that Mike Pinder was influenced by Mantovani ranks 
just 
> > behind Mike Dixon telling me that Sandy Denny sang out of tune, 
in a 
> > list? of things I wish I didn't know.
> > >
> > > I can no longer listen to Sandy Denny and I suspect the Moody 
Blues 
> > are about to suffer the same fate.
> > >
> > > Mark
> > >
> > >
> > > --- On Sun, 9/28/08, tomdcour tomdcour@ wrote:
> > >
> > > From: tomdcour tomdcour@
> > > Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Mantovani Anyone?
> > > To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> > > Date: Sunday, September 28, 2008, 9:13 AM
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Recently ,in an interview, Mike Pinder expressed that Mantovani 
had 
> > been an influence on his
> > >
> > > mellotron work. Vaguely remembering some haunting strains 
of "Love 
> > is a Many Splendored
> > >
> > > Thing" I went on Google to find out more. The first site I 
visited 
> > had a clip of the music that
> > >
> > > Nurse Ratchet played to calm down the patients in 'One Flew 
Over the 
> > Cuckoo's Nest". This
> > >
> > > put me in a bad frame of mind to be open to Mr. Mantovani. 
Indeed I 
> > started to suspect that
> > >
> > > he was responsible for the Musak I had to listen to in the 60's 
and 
> > 70's while my mom was
> > >
> > > shopping in the lingerie department. Bad associations! Then I 
began 
> > to read about some of
> > >
> > > his unique studio methods. "Cascading Strings"!! Listening back 
to 
> > the clip, I was no longer
> > >
> > > sure if I was hearing an orchestra drenched in a lot of reverb 
or 
> > the string section doing
> > >
> > > something weird. I am wondering if ,perhaps, he had a rank of 
> > violins playing the melody and
> > >
> > > another picking it up at a lower volume followed by yet another 
and 
> > another- simulating
> > >
> > > reverb. The effect, if you can bear to listen to it, is very 
> > interesting. Anyone know anything
> > >
> > > more about cascading strings or Mr. Mantovani?
> > >
> >
> > 
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------
------
> >
> >
> > No virus found in this incoming message.
> > Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com 
> > Version: 8.0.169 / Virus Database: 270.7.4/1695 - Release Date: 
9/27/2008 1:11 PM
> >
> >
>