the Mellotron/organ opening on Watcher o t Sky
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Topic: the Mellotron/organ opening on Watcher o t Sky
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: the Mellotron/organ opening on Watcher o t Sky
Date Posted: November 28 2010 at 09:40
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where in the intro does the organ take over after the massive Mellotron, on which time and how do they do it so bombasticly smooth
it is geniusly done how they merge two such different sounding instruments and do it so elegantly, it is quite mesmerising
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: November 29 2010 at 06:41
| I guess the organ comes in with the stacatto drum and bass rhythm. |
Posted By: Fox On The Rocks
Date Posted: November 19 2011 at 10:52
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I'm pretty sure the Organ comes in at around 1:02 after the big Mellotron crescendo. Then a couple seconds later the Mellotron dissapears for a bit and the whole band fades in and crescendos.
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Posted By: AtomicCrimsonRush
Date Posted: November 20 2011 at 01:29
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Yeah I was gonna say at about 1 minute we hear a mellotron chime in and it sounds markedly different. ------------- 
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Posted By: 7headedchicken
Date Posted: December 22 2011 at 15:59
| The part where the mellotron fades out and then starts the opening chords again - I always thought it was either a studio edit and that's why it sounded like that, or that Tony Banks was just adjusting the volume himself (if you can do that on a mellotron), and that the organ didn't come in until the rest of the band did, but now that you mention it, it does sound like it could be mellotron joined with organ on that part. A concert video of the song would probably show if that's how he played it, at least live. |