The Mellotron Group

I am reopening Roth Händle on the 1st of October...you are all welcome.

We can watch Waterworld outtakes eat deep fried food and drink Sam Adams.

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: lsf5275@aol.com 
  To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com 
  Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 10:13 PM
  Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] mkII


    

  This is all amazingly great stuff. I think we should seriously think about a gathering.

  Frank

  In a message dated 7/27/2010 2:34:42 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, wbeith@sbcglobal.net writes:
      

    Under the heading of   "Is somebody copying all this down?"

    At the Aragon the spring after the fire at the Electric Theater, I worked back stage at a "Festival" show that featured
    The Litter
    Bob Seeger System
    Pacific Gas and Electric
    Flying Burrito Brothers
    The Stooges
    Rotary Connection
    Alice Cooper
    The MC5
    and several more bads that memory has dimmed...................(remember it was just after the 60's)
    This show was filmed. I remember speaking backstage with a fellow on the film crew. Bushy hair and full beard with a strong Scottish accent. He said he had been on the Woodstock film crew. So somewhere the film of this show is stored waiting to be seen again.



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    From: Rick Blechta <rick@rickblechta.com>
    To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
    Sent: Tue, July 27, 2010 12:07:58 PM
    Subject: Re: [newmellotrongroup] mkII

      



    On Jul 27, 2010, at 12:00 PM, william Beith wrote:


      That was the Electric Theater AKA The Kinetic Playground,  owned by Aaron Russo, who later was Bette Midlers manager. This was the old Michael Todd theater. The seats were taken out, floor leveled, and theater screens were placed from ceiling to 8 feet off the floor creating a circular room. A projection booth called the eye was installed in the center of the ceiling (accessed from the floor above) which projected a Filmore type lightshow around the entire room. The stage sat against one wall. Nefarious activity as the cause of the fire was the rumor at the time.

      I hung out there...saw all sorts of shows....Jeff Beck with Rod Stewart singing, Jefferson Airplane, Zep (first Chicago performance) , Iron Butterfly, T Rex on and on and on.........

      When it burned all the activity moved two blocks east to the Aragon Ballroom where I worked for a year.  


    And thanks to you, William!


    Is somebody copying all this down?


    ;)