The Mellotron Group

Hi,

(note, have seen the MB's many times from 1970 to '74 and two times in the Patrick Moraz days, but never, until last night, as they are currently)

Saw (what's left of) The Moody Blues, also known as, the group formarlly known as The Moody Blues last night (Friday, March 25, 2016).

The sound system was in a word(s), not good.

The keyboard guy, Alan Hewitt seemed to be quite good, but I could not really hear him clearly or hear him at all a lot of the time. That being said, I think that he was using a Memotron as a mellotron. If he was using a Memotron, it seems that they are not wonderful.

I believe that a (Markus) Resch digital mellotron M4000D (his top model) would be the way to go as far as a FREE STANDING dedicated digital mellotron goes. Of course you would need a sound system and someone who knows how to operate it and not what was going on last night to really shine.

Edge, Hayward and Lodge are still great veteran cosmic rockers as are Pinder and Thomas to this day!

Thanks,

George, a.k.a., oldGeorgetron

To be honest, George, the memotron sounds much more like a real mellotron than the Swedish competition. We've listened closely to both and the memotron wins hands down for authenticity. And you know we pedantic buggers!

Best

Martin

Streetly Electronics on my iPad

> On 26 Mar 2016, at 17:11, gpsummers@sbcglobal.net [newmellotrongroup] <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> 
> 
> (note, have seen the MB's many times from 1970 to '74 and two times in the Patrick Moraz days, but never, until last night, as they are currently)
> 
> 
> 
> Saw (what's left of) The Moody Blues, also known as, the group formarlly known as The Moody Blues last night (Friday, March 25, 2016).
> 
> The sound system was in a word(s), not good.
> 
> The keyboard guy, Alan Hewitt seemed to be quite good, but I could not really hear him clearly or hear him at all a lot of the time. That being said, I think that he was using a Memotron as a mellotron. If he was using a Memotron, it seems that they are not wonderful.
> 
> I believe that a (Markus) Resch digital mellotron M4000D (his top model) would be the way to go as far as a FREE STANDING dedicated digital mellotron goes. Of course you would need a sound system and someone who knows how to operate it and not what was going on last night to really shine.
> 
> Edge, Hayward and Lodge are still great veteran cosmic rockers as are Pinder and Thomas to this day!
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 
> George, a.k.a., oldGeorgetron
> 
>

I also saw the Moodies last night (March 25) at the Altria (formerly known as the Mosque in the old days) Richmond VA.Saw them at same place in March 2014.
As before, and as usual, the first couple of numbers seemed to be buried by the dual drum kits and a noisy wall of sound.I had some trepidation that slowly lifted, maybe I got my ears adjusted - or maybe they got it dialed in.But I agree, needed to showcase the strings more....although there were some moments (Isn't Life Strange and NIWS - that were satisfying).
I'm not a big an of the post seven albums - but with M.Pinder and R.Thomas gone I knew the chances of hearing some of my favorites are remote.That said, the set list did include Gypsy from TOCCC and You and Me from 7thSojurn.
As much as we are tired of NIWS I had to give props to J. Hayward, he delivered it beautifully and forcefully.Norda does very well on flute.
But like they said in that song You can Never Go Home.


 

    On Saturday, March 26, 2016 3:28 PM, "tron400@yahoo.com [newmellotrongroup]" <newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
 

     I saw the Moodies last year (or was it the year before?). Alan Hewitt was using a Memotron, but I don't know if he was using the stock samples or the Streetly samples. It didn't really matter because they were buried in the mix. I put all the blame on the engineer. Engineers suck nowadays. It's become fashionable with them to bury the keyboards. The only good live mix I've heard in the last 10 or 15 years was at a recent Renaissance concert. The keyboards were right up front.

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