Mellotron-driven proto-prog
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Topic: Mellotron-driven proto-prog
Posted By: earlyprog
Subject: Mellotron-driven proto-prog
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 07:11
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Your favorite use of mellotron in proto-prog?
Feel free to elaborate your choice.
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Posted By: seventhsojourn
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 07:22
| Legend Of A Mind... no need to elaborate, just go listen. At last a poll where The Moodies might actually do ok, though their votes might be split among all those choices. |
Posted By: Shevrzl
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 07:23
| Nights in white satin no doubt... Still touches me deeply |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 08:14
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I vote for Space Oddity in which the mellotron plays a prominent role. This goes also for Nights in White Satin, which is too sweet for my taste. ------------- 
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Posted By: clarke2001
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 11:34
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Other. Jefferson Airplane's 'Sketches Of China'.
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Posted By: lazland
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 13:10
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I've always loved Forever Afternoon, which beats some other exceptional tracks in this poll.
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Posted By: harmonium.ro
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 13:12
Strawberry Fields has my favourite mellotron part ever. 
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Posted By: Camel_APPeal
Date Posted: April 14 2010 at 17:23
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From the list Nights In White Satin... that is the mellotron I like.
An honorable mention to "How Is It (We Are Here)" from their Question Of Balance album, although being from 1970, doesn't seem to fit in this poll's timeframe.
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Posted By: antonyus
Date Posted: April 15 2010 at 08:42
| The Night: Nights in White Satin :) |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: April 15 2010 at 19:25
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Legend of a Mind, but special mention must go to Nights in White Satin, which is on this list, and OM, which is not. I also considered Flying, but decided not to. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: Ronnie Pilgrim
Date Posted: April 15 2010 at 19:53
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I was reading The Lord of the RIngs when Days of the Future Passed was released. For me, the two are inseparable. I chose "The Afternoon..." but not by much over the other Days... offerings. It emotes in me a feeling of happy gardening in the Shire, while "Nights..." is a bit darker and reminds me of the grave task at hand. WHAT THE FU(K HAVE I BEEN SMOKING?
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Posted By: The-time-is-now
Date Posted: April 20 2010 at 15:45
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1. A Saucerful of Secrets 2. Nights in White Satin But these two tracks are clearly the two most known of the list, so... -------------  One of my best achievements in life was to find this picture :D |
Posted By: earlyprog
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 11:47
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It appears to me that the list represents three different approaches to the use of mellotron. First, there's the keyboard-oriented use, Strawberry Fields Forever, being an example of this. Next, there's the string-oriented use as introduced by The Zombies on Hung Up On A Dream. Thirdly, the woodwind approach again exemplified by The Zombies on Changes. The Beatles used mellotron in quite an akward fahion in my view - Flying is the other example. |
Posted By: Jake Kobrin
Date Posted: May 15 2010 at 15:28
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Any of the The Zombies tracks.
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Posted By: Floydman
Date Posted: May 18 2010 at 07:10
In 1966 the Beatles were using things like loops, Indian instruments and backward tapes to create psychedelic soundscapes.
So the Beatles used the mellotron for the purposes to create psychedelic music IMO on "Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Flying". If you listen to the end or the fade-out of "Flying" the mellotron sounds like it was taped backwards. The first Beatles song to have mellotron was "Tomorrow Never Knows" but I wouldn't call it a mellotron driven song. One weird way the Beatles used the mellotron was when they used it to tie 'Wild Honey Pie" and "Bungalow Bill" together with the Latin guitar solo used from a mellotron.
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earlyprog wrote:Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: May 18 2010 at 09:23
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I'm delighted to have the opportunity to support the Zombies, who I fel are criminally underrated (although not really proto-prog.) All the tracks you listed are fantastic, but I'll vote for Hung Up On A Dream. ------------- 
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