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Attention all Mellotron fiends!
What you need is Morte Macabre's Symphonic Holocaust. Swedish 'supergroup' with folks from Anekdoten and Dungen to name a few. The project was to rearrange and perform old horror flick music (The Omen, Rosemary's Baby etc), yet from an eerie prog rock pov. Plus all musicians involved play the mellotron!! Wrapped around it is a rhythmic powerhouse of drums and bass, beautiful piano lines, plus one Reine Fiske playing completely unlike himself in these glissandoing shimmering guitar twinkles. It is a gorgeous record.
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Posted: June 06 2014 at 04:18
AreYouHuman wrote:
Traffic has some great mellotron moments, my favorites are No Face, No Name and No Number and Dream Gerrard.
Indeed, 'Dream Gerrard' is a wonderful escape in Mellotron heaven.
Every time I hear his 'When You See A Chance You Take It' (or any 80's hit of his) I always recall the wonderfully progressive keyboards work he's done over the years. Winwood is truly an underrated talent within the Prog world....
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Posted: May 25 2014 at 00:09
dr wu23 wrote:
After listening to this looped mash-up of some of Pinder's work, it strikes me how classically influenced his playing is. Don't notice it as much when the albums play through. Who was it that said the Moodies weren't Prog ???
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Posted: May 19 2014 at 00:58
Richard Wright plays some deliciously sinister 'tron on Sysyphus. Or the avante section of Atom Heart (Mind Your Throats Please). Quite an unusual way of playing.
Caravan's Golf Girl features a superb solo.
The U.S. band Cathedral, with their Stained Glass Stories album shows off amazingly technical performances on the 'tron too.
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Posted: May 18 2014 at 18:25
Michael678 wrote:
dudes, what about f**king "Epitaph"!!!!
besides that there's "Strawberry Fields Forever" by The Beatles (yes it does have mellotron), and also some of the "The Remembering" and "Ritual" from Yes' Tales album, i especially like the latter
UPDATE: The guy with that as well as pretty much every other keyboard celebrates 55 years of age today (im doing it here cause i have no where else i know of i can about if you were wondering)
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Posted: May 18 2014 at 06:58
The whole of Days of Future Passed, I think, qualifies as the Mellotron's finest moment. When I was a young(er) lad, I didn't even notice that it wasn't a real orchestra playing with the Moodies. It was only later that I realized the orchestra only played during the interludes, and all of the orchestral sounds heard with the band came from some crazy keyboard instrument of which I'd never heard. Notice it everywhere, now, of course, even in decidedly unprogressive modern music.
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Posted: May 18 2014 at 05:57
AtomicCrimsonRush wrote:
Tom Ozric wrote:
Kashmir is full of genuine 'tron. Rain Song too. I always thought No Quarter had some tremelo'd e-piano...??
Interesting i looked up info on No Quarter and found this:
<span style="color: rgb37, 37, 37; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">With his electric piano, Jones achieved a Fender Rhodes-like oscillator effect, as well as a real-time bass synth line, done on early Moog Taurus foot pedals in sequence with the keyboard track, which requires an amount of dexterity. Along with full-range intonation, the depression-sensitive bass pedals were then able to be modulated in-time with the riff, opening up the filter cut-off, rhythmically, judging by the amount the pedal is depressed. The result is a swampy, hollow, and deep bass sound, which was also compressed in the final cut.</span>
That's a very interesting bit of info there - thanks for digging that up.
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Posted: May 18 2014 at 05:45
Tom Ozric wrote:
Kashmir is full of genuine 'tron. Rain Song too. I always thought No Quarter had some tremelo'd e-piano...??
Interesting i looked up info on No Quarter and found this:
With his electric piano, Jones achieved a Fender Rhodes-like oscillator effect, as well as a real-time bass synth line, done on early Moog Taurus foot pedals in sequence with the keyboard track, which requires an amount of dexterity. Along with full-range intonation, the depression-sensitive bass pedals were then able to be modulated in-time with the riff, opening up the filter cut-off, rhythmically, judging by the amount the pedal is depressed. The result is a swampy, hollow, and deep bass sound, which was also compressed in the final cut.
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