Mellotron moments

Rick Wakeman does some quirky things with the mellotron.  "Catherine Howard" from Six Wives is a mellotron workout.  At 3:28 he starts using it with a leslie speaker maybe?  Makes it sound like a Hammond a little.  Then at about 4:08 there are a couple of cool 'tron stabs.  You don't usually think of stabs on the mellotron.   The piece ends with solo mellotron on the flute or some kind of reed setting which of course doesn't sound like either a flute or a reed.

I agree with you all in relation to mellotron moments of King Crimson and Genesis. Perhaps thats why I regard them so high....I mean just listen to to this new remasters of the first 7 Genesis. Especially the DVD audio versions are truly jawdropping in any possible meaning of the world. Drew moments, one after the other......And Yes, the Lamb is one of the highest mellotron percentage albums ever made. Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats, for example. Totally amazing. But also forgoing albums knew thier mellotron share. Dancing With The Moonlit Knight, Cinema Show...and ofcourse Watcher Of The Skies, Seven Stones and Fountain Of Salmacis....are all equally fantastic. As for King Crimson....They had their share too. Reading all this really made me want to listen to Epitaph again.....And ofcourse In The Court Of The Crimson King....but but should also not forget In The Wake Of Poseidon, truly amazing mellotron song also. It was also KC's use of mellotron that made Genesis decide to embrace the mellotron in such a prominent way.

Untill I read all this comments I never saw Yes as prominent exponent of the mellotron and always tend to associate Yes more with the Moog (like very obvious in Awaken). Also Pink Floyd does not come to mind to me as a frequest mellotron using band...and ELP....Im just starting with that (although Im already in Prog for more than 15 years).

What surpising me most is the absence of Swedish prog. Someone once is mentioning Anekdoten's Karelia....but my good heavens what are we missing out here. True, Anekdoten is the most typical example of the use of the mellotron (they even take one on tour...till this day) But I can truly recomand all of you to listen to the Flower Kings, Anglagard and Landberk as we'll. Talking about amazong use of mellotron. But the most amazing example of mellotron use for me is still Motre Macabre. This colaboration between members of Anekdoten and Landberk created a 16 min. long song that no-one should leave out of his collection, for A Symphonic Holocaust is really really one of the crowning achievements of mellotron use.

Further.....I know there are alot of already long forgotten bands......like Spring, Zombies or Rare Bird...that were extremely heavy in the use of the mellotron.