The Mellotron Group

Gino, it's sad, but not altogether surprising.  Ra always seemed to
operate on a shoestring (or less) budget.  When making tour stops in
the early '80s in Kansas City, he, June Tyson, John Gilmore, and
Marshall Allan (I think) would stay at my wife's house, which was a
standard inner city shithole rented by a bunch of art students, rather
than a hotel (don't know where the rest of the group was put up).  I
think the logistics of taking a band that large on the road was beyond
his financial reach - but they managed to pull it off come show time.
johnb



--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "gino wong" <wonggster@...>
wrote:
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> Sunny got prototypes and freebies from everyone. Crumar / GDS,  Moog
> gave him Minimoog (modular sort of) and a GDS prototype built by Kevin
> Doren himself I believe. Tons of other stuff that was in development.
> All of which eventually faded into pawnshops in North Philadelphia or
> off into the clutches of irresponsible hangers on who didn't even know
> what the stuff was.
> 
> On 12/19/07, john barrick <astroboy@...> wrote:
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> > Me too, what happened? I saw him with the Arkestra twice and his
> >  keyboards seemed just fine at the time.
> >  jb
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> >  Mike Dickson wrote:
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> >  > What happened to Sun Ra's keyboards?
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> >  > gino wong wrote:
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> >  > > Another good save. It could have gone the way of Sun Ra's
keyboard
> >  > > collection.
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