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Re: Fripp news



I too am a big fan of the vintage Mellotron sound :-)  Fell in love
with it in the seventies when a friend, that was ten years older and
working as a music teacher, owned one and used it with his
symphonic/progressive rock band. Since a decade back I've kept samples
of the mellotron tapes on my computer's drive to use with whatever
sampler I have around. As much as I love these sounds they come out
quite tricky to use in music because of the heavy stamp they carry
;-)) I mean, whenever they appear in music it just screams to the
listener "someone-wanted-this-to-sound-mellotronish-for-some-reason"
and quite often I'm finding that my love for this lo-fi sound isn't
reason enough to glue that message onto the music.

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen


On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 10:45 PM, Christophe <cburke55@comcast.net> wrote:
> Ah, the Mellotron!  It became the love of my life too, also having been
> introduced to it by Court of the Crimson King and at about the same time 
> by
> the Moody Blues.  It just has a sound like nothing else.  Captain 
> Beefheart
> (also a fan) described it as having , "a merthiolate sound", and that 
> really
> does describe it - strangely astringent.  I was a bass and guitar player
> with seriously limited keyboard skills and a budget that didn't come
> anywhere near affording one so I just settled for listening until 
> softsynths
> came along, when I picked up a program called M-Tron which is a great
> Mellotron emulation that I've had tons of fun with.  Unfortunately 
> though,
> last winter I wound up with a new PC with Windows 7 64 bit and I wasn't 
> able
> to get M-Tron to successfully install on it, though I should really go on
> the web again and see if there's some kind of work around.  Failing that,
> though, there is a new and improved version, and at this point I might 
> just
> spring for it.
>
> ________________________________
> From: "bill bigrig" <billbigrig@yahoo.com>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2012 3:20:45 PM
> Subject: Re: Fripp news
>
> I was introduced to him in high school, (1972). A friend that played
> trombone next to me had us all over to his house to hear, "giant bass
> saxes". It was the most powerful thing I heard up to then, (normally an 
> ELP
> fan). I traded him the trilogy album for in the wake of posiedon. I had 
> to
> tell him that it was not 2 saxes, but a sax and guitar. Hearing Gregg 
> Lake's
> voice was a surprise, I thought ELP was his firsd band. I quickly bought 
> the
> first album, then bought later albums that to me, started to lose that
> original sound. Larks tongues brought me baak, but then faded again. Thus
> began my lifelong love of all things Mellotron, and the burning desire to
> have those sounds at my disposal. I was not prosperous enough to buy 
> music
> gear until 1985. It still took me til the early 2000s to get an Akai 
> S-5000
> and the Mellotron archives. HEAVEN!! I also scored a Roland M-VS1,
> naturally, it used a few notes thenspread them out across the keys, the 
> A in
> particular had a different sound than the other notes, and was the same 
> at
> every octave. Still, for the price, it is fun. In1975 I got my first 
> taste
> of non-top 40 Rundgren. My life changed forever when I heard the 6 man 
> band
> and the album called Todd.
> Rig
> ________________________________
> From: Christophe <cburke55@comcast.net>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 6:54 AM
> Subject: Re: Fripp news
>
> I agree on both counts.  From what I've read in the past, including a bio
> some years back, he does seem to be painfully serious about himself and a
> little deficient in the humor department.
>
> I also seem to remember him taking a long sabbatical (I think he called 
> it
> retirement then, too) between the Lark's Tongues period (which is still 
> my
> favorite KC era) and the Discipline era over his dissatisfaction with the
> biz.  I doubt his "retirement" will last forever.
>
> ________________________________
> From: "Art Simon" <simart@gmail.com>
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Sent: Friday, September 7, 2012 1:44:10 AM
> Subject: Re: Fripp news
>
> I love, adore, the music of Robert Fripp. But I'm getting the
> impression he's a bit prickly.
>
>
>
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