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Peter

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 21:26

A thread about those Mellotrons, eh?

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 20:04

http://freespace.virgin.net/andy.thompson/

not completely up to date but still amazingly comprehensive.

Tony

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 19:02

Yams wrote:

Are they using actual Mellotrons or samples of Mellotron sounds?

Well for Opeth and Porcupine Tree I know for a fact that it was samples. Anglagard used a real one (two in fact) and I believe Spock's Beard has a real one too.

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 18:39

Hi folks;

My favorite instrument in Progressive Rock is also the Mellotron. It features some of the prog essential sounds, like strings or choirs.

Stay tuned for the upcoming album by a new norwegian band called WOBBLER. The band´s keyboard player Lars Fredik Froislie uses no less than 3 mellotrons (he owns 2 of them) on their debut album. They are going to play the prog festival NearFest around June or so and the album may be released by Laser´s Edge by that time.

LONG LIVE PROG ROCK & THE MELLOTRON

Cheers,

Roger

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 18:23

Sweden, the country where Mellotron was a household object...

I bet that 9 out of 10 of us would have little hope recognising a real mellotron from a synthesizer mellotron sound (and no, I don't mean the early 90s synth sounds, but the 21st century ones which even include the nice little sound the original mellotron lets out when the tape runs out...)

"The common man" (meaning "surely none of us here, but the others...") seem to have trouble recognising a harpsichord from a synth or real violins or brasses from synthesized ones...

Obviously, I love the sound of the Mellotron (as well as the sounds of harpsichords, violins and brass instruments...)

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-Beau

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Yams

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 18:19

Are they using actual Mellotrons or samples of Mellotron sounds?

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 18:12

yeah, the mellotrons used in classic prog was great, if new bands like TMV started using them it would be great...

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 18:06

Great use of Mellotron on Anglagard's Hybris and Epilog and Anekdoten's
Vemod - as Cesar Inca says the Scandinavian bands of the 90's (some of
which are on the Mellotronen record label) use it a lot.I agree it is also my
absolute favourite instrument

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 17:07

In lots of songs from the "OK Computer", actually: the string orchestration that appears during the interlude section of 'Paranoid Android' is also played on mellotron.

The mellotron in itself has been recatured by many Scadinavian bands (WHITE WILLOW, ANGLAGARD, ANEKDOTEN, FRUITCAKE). IQ used it for their first albums, and retook it for "Dark Matter". The neal Morse-era SPOCK'S BEARD albums and those by GLASS HAMMER include the mellotron, too, in a large degree.

Regards.

Tony

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 16:50

in "Exit Music... for a Film" from OK computer I believe.

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 14:30

Tony wrote:

Radiohead used it

Did they? Whenabouts?

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 13:33

Tony wrote:

I guess you could say that along with the Mini Moog, the Mellotron is my favourite instrument used in prog rock. I don't think it is necessary to demonstrate why here, as I guess I'm not the only one who enjoys its sound.

Anways, the tron has made quite a comeback in the last 5 years or so, after being pretty much unused in all of the 80s and the 90s. Porcupine Tree uses it alot, Opeth started using it because of SW, Radiohead used it and now there's lots of it on the new TMV.

Is it going to be used on more and more diverse albums with time? And were there any other example of its recent use? Will we see the return of the ARP, or the Moog or the Hammond organ soon?

We can only hope

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Posted: April 20 2005 at 13:27

I guess you could say that along with the Mini Moog, the Mellotron is my favourite instrument used in prog rock. I don't think it is necessary to demonstrate why here, as I guess I'm not the only one who enjoys its sound.

Anways, the tron has made quite a comeback in the last 5 years or so, after being pretty much unused in all of the 80s and the 90s. Porcupine Tree uses it alot, Opeth started using it because of SW, Radiohead used it and now there's lots of it on the new TMV.

Is it going to be used on more and more diverse albums with time? And were there any other example of its recent use? Will we see the return of the ARP, or the Moog or the Hammond organ soon?