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Watcher Of The Skies
 
Fountain Of Salmacis
 
Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats (The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway-The best mixed choir I've ever hear on the tron).  
 
To Our Children's Children's Children-The Moody Blues-(I think it's Mike Pinder's Mellotron masterpiece moment. The whole album seems to float on air with his mellotron).
 
Tales From Topographic Oceans-Yes
 
There's many more I can name, but these are my top five.
 
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Rando,
That's pretty cool, when I saw the topic I thought of Entangled,
and there it is in you signature.
The end of "Entangled"
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the mellotron just before the "Land's End / Sineline" section of  "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" by VdGG. mellotron has never been more sinister and menacing than here.


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King crimson- in the court of the crimson king
Barclay James Harvest- for no one(live)
Museo rosenbach-Il Tempio Delle Clessidre
Harmonium-Histoires sans paroles

and of course a lot more in the prog world...!



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Originally posted by synthguy synthguy wrote:

Rando,
That's pretty cool, when I saw the topic I thought of Entangled,
and there it is in you signature.
The end of "Entangled"
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Synthguy,
Ha! I guess I missed that one! Definitely one of the best Genesis mellotron endings!
 
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The Devil's triangle, the last part of Starless, then Lizard and Epitaph By King Crimson
The part in Supper's ready by Genesis, when the lyrics goes "...In blood he's writing the lyrics of a brand new tune..." to the very end of the tune: always stunning....
 "Los Endos" and "Starship Trooper: Wurm" (the live version on yessongs)


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All that's been said, but I'd like to add the entirety of Morte Macabre's Symphonic Holocaust as well as the end of VDGG's Pawn Hearts. That's some seriously "evil" sounding 'tron right there! Also the 'tron solo in Caravan's Golf Girl is awesome. He plays it like a hammond!

Oh and the oft forgotten intro solo to The Rain Song when Led Zeppelin plays the song live is amazing!




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How about Genesis' live version of The Cinema Show from Seconds Out?  The mellotron in that sends shivers up my spine - marvellous Big smile.
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my favourite mello" bits -it has to be the lamb" and tales from topographic oceans,and what about mr.dave greenslade and "tide" off the "time and tide" album.-that beautiful eerieness -it could only be mellotron!           (mike-"pony" hewetson-mothership oracle)
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Watcher of the Skies, it's always what comes to my mind first, and then In the Court of the crimson king. 
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First, I'd have to say "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" on "Selling England"....the Mellotron M-400 eight-voice choir is stunning!

I love everything you have all mentioned, I'd like to nominate "For My Lady" by the Moodies....Mike Pinder did fantastic things with the Mellotron, including customized instruments with multiple keyboards etc.  He use tapes of a sailer's squeeze-box on the song, very haunting!!

This is hilarious (from Pinder's Wikipedia page): 

Typical of his travails was the Moodies' first United States concert; when the band struck its first harmony, the back of the Mellotron fell open and all of the tape strips cascaded out. 

Pinder grabbed his tool box and got the instrument back into working order in 20 minutes, while the light crew entertained the audience by projecting Bugs Bunny cartoons.


Mike's website for you Mellotron & Chamberlin freaks!!
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The ending of Watcher of the Skies, where the intro is revisited with the mellotron playing the higher chord, and the guitar hitting the lower notes.
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The closing part of KC's Starless must be the ultimate spine tingling mellotron moment. Drum Folk by Greenslade has some really beautiful flute mellotron on it.
"And now...on the drums...Mick Underwooooooooood!!!"

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Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

The end of "Seven Stones " from "Nursery Cryme".


Damn you Alan - you got there first!

Originally posted by chefrobb chefrobb wrote:

...when Cousins stopped the song about 1/4 of the way in because the Mellotron was not working up to snuff, then starting the whole thing over. Damn that pesky primitive technology.


When we saw The Musical Box in Bristol a few years ago, the lights went down, the mellotron began the stately beginning to 'Watcher..', lights went up to reveal vocalist in full Watcher costume... then the mellotron broke down.

Cue everyone leaving the stage looking embarrased & a horde of roadies trying to fix the Mellotron (they did after about 15 minutes & the rest of the show was fantastic)

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How didn't anybody mention the mellotron after the vocal climax in GG's Giant?
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Originally posted by Jim Garten Jim Garten wrote:

Originally posted by chopper chopper wrote:

The end of "Seven Stones " from "Nursery Cryme".


Damn you Alan - you got there first!

Originally posted by chefrobb chefrobb wrote:

...when Cousins stopped the song about 1/4 of the way in because the Mellotron was not working up to snuff, then starting the whole thing over. Damn that pesky primitive technology.


When we saw The Musical Box in Bristol a few years ago, the lights went down, the mellotron began the stately beginning to 'Watcher..', lights went up to reveal vocalist in full Watcher costume... then the mellotron broke down.

Cue everyone leaving the stage looking embarrased & a horde of roadies trying to fix the Mellotron (they did after about 15 minutes & the rest of the show was fantastic)
 
Are you sure about that statement? The Musical Box didn't use a real mellotron. They used a sampler
keyboard put in a faked M400 furniture.
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Genesis - Blood On The Rooftops ,perhaps the last time Tony Banks used the Mellotron?
 
OMD - Maid Of Orleans , not prog but it sounds great here especially with the unusal time signature (a waltz!)
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Originally posted by chefrobb chefrobb wrote:

I was fortunate enough to be in the audience (basically 1 seat from the stage) when Genesis did their legendary shows at the Roxy Theater in LA in 1972. When Watcher of the Skies started, and the lites were out, and slowly it all sterted to coalesce, it was one of the most awe inspiring moments in my lengthy prog show history. Without a doubt, it was the peak of Mellotron heaven..........followed (but not to closely) by Strawbs opening for King Crimson, and the opening of Hero and Heroine......when Cousins stopped the song about 1/4 of the way in because the Mellotron was not working up to snuff, then starting the whole thing over. Damn that pesky primitive technology.

You saw Genesis live in 1972?  Lucky b*****d.

Anyways, one of my favorite mellotron moments would have to be the one used in "Apocalypse in 9/8" from "Supper's Ready."  It makes an epic song even more epic.  Genesis were certainly the masters of the Mellotron.
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Originally posted by gottagetintogetout gottagetintogetout wrote:

Originally posted by chefrobb chefrobb wrote:

I was fortunate enough to be in the audience (basically 1 seat from the stage) when Genesis did their legendary shows at the Roxy Theater in LA in 1972. When Watcher of the Skies started, and the lites were out, and slowly it all sterted to coalesce, it was one of the most awe inspiring moments in my lengthy prog show history. Without a doubt, it was the peak of Mellotron heaven..........followed (but not to closely) by Strawbs opening for King Crimson, and the opening of Hero and Heroine......when Cousins stopped the song about 1/4 of the way in because the Mellotron was not working up to snuff, then starting the whole thing over. Damn that pesky primitive technology.

You saw Genesis live in 1972?  Lucky b*****d.

Anyways, one of my favorite mellotron moments would have to be the one used in "Apocalypse in 9/8" from "Supper's Ready."  It makes an epic song even more epic.  Genesis were certainly the masters of the Mellotron.

Thanks for "Apocalypse"!  Forgot that one, how could I??  

I saw King Crimson at Chicago's Kinetic Playground, April 20, 1973....Bob Fripp and David Cross playing dueling Mellotrons!   God it was awesome!!

Oddly, Peter Frampton was the backup band!!  
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