The Mellotron Group

These wouldn't be Kazoo samples would they? I would be so disappointed, there was me thinkng you had got together a kazoo orchestra at 5am in the morning!

Mark
--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Bruce Daily <pocotron@...> wrote:
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> Truely inspired!  You can almost sense the buildup of saliva in each kazoo!
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>    -Bruce D.
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> --- On Fri, 10/16/09, markpringnz <markpringnz@...> wrote:
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> From: markpringnz <markpringnz@...>
> Subject: [newmellotrongroup] Re: Court
> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Friday, October 16, 2009, 10:21 PM
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> That is brilliant Mike even better than NIWS!
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> --- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com, Mike Dickson <mike.dickson@ ...> wrote:
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> > http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/ private/Epitaph- Reworked. mp3
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> > markpringnz wrote:
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> > >
> > > Apparently in the 50th anniversary edition the mellotron will be 
> > > replaced with a kazoo.
> > >
> > > --- In newmellotrongroup@ yahoogroups. com 
> > > <mailto:newmellotro ngroup%40yahoogr oups.com> , Mike Dickson 
> > > <mike.dickson@ > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > This may sound like heresy....
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone else have the new 40th anniversary edition of 'In The Court
> > > > of the Crimson King'? I do (as you may expect) and believe it or not,
> > > > what has been done to it in terms of sonic quality is astounding. It's
> > > > even better than the 30th anniversary edition (which I thought was
> > > > outstanding) and comes with some really good extras too.
> > > >
> > > > But.
> > > >
> > > > To me, the biggie on this album was always 'Epitaph'. It was really 
> > > this
> > > > track that showed me the way and pointed me at a style of music I don't
> > > > think anyone else in the genre has come /close /to equalling. And it 
> > > was
> > > > always the Mellotron that did it. Everything else in the track was
> > > > great, but the piercing shreik of the Mellotron propelled it from being
> > > > a /fairly/ standard minor key tune into something really magical.
> > > >
> > > > Which begs the question: /what the shiny blue fuck has happened 
> > > here? /I
> > > > was listening to the track again today having had a feeling of loss 
> > > in a
> > > > couple of previous listens, and have suddenly found out where it was
> > > > coming from. Or not. At the close of the first chorus the Mellotron
> > > > climbs to the top E as well all know...and never gets there. The 
> > > note is
> > > > /not there/. One note. Big deal, you may say, but it is a /sublime
> > > > /note. As Fripp himself has droned, you '/can play any note they like
> > > > provided it's the right one/'. And this is the right one. It's sweet 
> > > and
> > > > perfect and rounds off the chorus perfectly. So why is it omitted. It's
> > > > even in tune!
> > > >
> > > > Worse is to come. /That pitch bend. /My 14 year old jaw dropped on
> > > > hearing it for the first time. I think I destroyed my first copy by
> > > > dropping the needle onto at point again and again and again. It is a
> > > > fantastic, blood-curdling hair-on-the- back-of-the- neck experience. And
> > > > on the 40th anniversary set it is /sludged out/. The crescendo 
> > > behind it
> > > > absolutely overwhelms it to the extent that you can hear the trick; one
> > > > Mellotron plays a crescendo climbing 'flat' to E-minor whilst the other
> > > > one bends up to it. Expert fading on the original ensured that the
> > > > /effect /was heard but that the squeak of strings ratcheted up like 
> > > that
> > > > /was not/. It's a superb moment. And you can barely hear it on the new
> > > > release.
> > > >
> > > > Has anyone else noticed this or any other weirdness/ It's the only 
> > > track
> > > > I have listened to in such detail so far, which makes me a tad scared
> > > > for the rest now. Actually, I'm playing it now and the clarity of the
> > > > piece now makes it sound like Mike Giles banging on timpani in a 
> > > studio,
> > > > not the far-off and distant /sound of doom /that I know so well. Maybe
> > > > less is nore. Perhaps Fripp has /tinkered beyond. /Perhaps I'll ask him.
> > > >
> > > > Musical choices aside, the sound quality is to be heard and 
> > > disbelieved.
> > > > A friend with a good 5:1 system says that 21CSM is like having the band
> > > > play in your front room. It's that good.
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> > > >
> > > > Free Music Project: http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/ 
> > > <http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/>
> > > > Or http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson 
> > > <http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson>
> > > > Or http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson <http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson>
> > > > Or http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson 
> > > <http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson>
> > > >
> > >
> > > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Mike Dickson, Edinburgh
> > 
> > Free Music Project: http://www.mikedick son.org.uk/ 
> > Or http://www.last. fm/music/ Mike+Dickson
> > Or http://soundcloud. com/mikedickson
> > Or http://www.planetme llotron.com/ revd4.htm# mikedickson
> >
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