The Mellotron Group

Mike,
My sentiments exactly!
Pete

tony1 wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> I don't know that piece, but your playing and production is in a word 
> "brilliant".
> Well done my friend and I am eager to hear more!
>  
> Best,
> Tony
> Tampa
> U.S.A.
> #510
>  
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>     *From:* Mike Dickson <mailto:mike.dickson@gmail.com>
>     *To:* newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
>     <mailto:newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com>
>     *Sent:* Monday, September 29, 2008 4:59 PM
>     *Subject:* [newmellotrongroup] mellotronworks
>
>     It's a fairly open secret among a few people here that I'm workng
>     on a fifth and (if planning is right, final) album which I hope to
>     have released some time soon.
>
>     The album will be my take on a number of well-known classical
>     works, recorded by me over the preceding five months or so. I
>     don't read music and so it has been a slow and painful process at
>     times, with me invariably surrounded by musical charts of my own
>     creation as well as coloured scores, annotated manuscripts and
>     post-it notes everywhere in sight. However, I have pressed on
>     despite all the difficulties as I think the end result is going to
>     be extremely worthwhile and comes with a bit of a twist.
>
>     The one major difference between this and other attempts to record
>     these pieces is that /everything /on the album will be played on
>     the Mellotron.
>
>     The album is to be called */mellotronworks /*and I've taken the
>     bold step of giving the good readers of this mailing list a
>     preview. You can download my version of Samuel Barber's 1936
>     masterpiece /Adagio for Strings/ from the following link:
>     http://www.mikedickson.org.uk/mellotronworks/Barbers%20Adagio.mp3
>
>     Comments welcomed.
>
>