The Mellotron Group

Bearing in mind that my favourite Genesis tracks are "Seven stones" and "Times Table" is there likely to be anything on "Selling England by the Pound" that I might like?

Mark

Mark Pring wrote:
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> Ok, sounds like I'll have to get hold of it. What is everybody's opinion 
> regarding the various mellotron choirs. I only have access to M-tron at 
> present, my favourite is the split choir which is the 8 choir but with 
> the trebles on the right and the basses on the left, gets abit awkard in 
> the middle but I am planning to have one choir sound and this seems the 
> best compromise.
> 
> Mark

"Russian Choir".   Amen, brother.
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--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, Steven Davies-Morris 
<sdavmor@...> wrote:
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> Mark Pring wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Ok, sounds like I'll have to get hold of it. What is everybody's 
opinion 
> > regarding the various mellotron choirs. I only have access to M-
tron at 
> > present, my favourite is the split choir which is the 8 choir but 
with 
> > the trebles on the right and the basses on the left, gets abit 
awkard in 
> > the middle but I am planning to have one choir sound and this 
seems the 
> > best compromise.
> > 
> > Mark
> 
> "Russian Choir".   Amen, brother.

Agreed. It's my favorite.

There are full length Selling England songs on youtube if you search 
by the album title.

Bernie

--- In newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com, "jonesalley"
<jonesalley@...> wrote:
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> It's probably their most light-hearted and playful material, and
definitely the best incarnation of the band performing at their peak
skill.  The songs are nowhere near as murky and shadowed as the
earlier stuff and there's LOTS of really classic Mellotron parts.


Thankfully, John Burns did a nice job producing SEBTP.

http://www.johnnieburns.co.uk/

JB: Tony was such a strong musician. I remember, one time, there was a
fairy odd chord on the organ on a backing track. I recall saying,
"Christ, that's discordant!" and Tony said, "Don't worry, its fine.
Wait until I put the piano part on top." When he did, suddenly, it
worked beautifully. It all came into place. I thought he was amazing.
He did have some very strange chords and sequences. Until he had done
all of his parts… An overdub Moog or synth or whatever, it wouldn't
quite make sense. Then he would put the top line on and you'd say,
"Fucking hell, that's brilliant!"

Pallas? Yeah, most of 'The Sentinel' is pretty good, I don't think it's dated too well though. It's wonderful if you need cheering up and nothing but cheesy pitchshifted narration can hit the spot. Especially the bit about the giant glass dome..

 And the bog-standard 8-voice still rules my world..

Love, Scones and the great smell of overheating Prophet-5 power supplies,
msw x




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> To: newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com
> From: andy.thompson@virgin.net
> Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2008 08:36:32 +0000
> Subject: Re: Re: [newmellotrongroup] Selling England by the pound
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> Jun 7, 2008 03:05:05 AM, newmellotrongroup@yahoogroups.com wrote:
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> Ok, sounds like I'll have to get hold of it. What is everybody's opinion regarding the various mellotron choirs. I only have access to M-tron at present, my favourite is the split choir which is the 8 choir but with the trebles on the right and the basses on the left, gets abit awkard in the middle but I am planning to have one choir sound and this seems the best compromise.
> 
> Mark
> 
> The only band I ever heard use the split choir are Scottish '80s proggers Pallas, who were actually quite good before perfecting 'stadium prog' (played in clubs) later in the decade. Not bad, but awkward when crossing the split point!
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> Andy T.
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http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/msnnkmgl0010000002ukm/direct/01/

They take a turn toward guitar on this lp and begin thinking about the keyboard parts in a far more balanced and useful way.  Cinema Show is a good example.