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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. > > > >