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An article about the Mellotron that doesn’t mention King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King? Disgraceful! :P https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgraQ-xkp4&

by Lio 3y ago

An article about the Mellotron that doesn’t mention King Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King? Disgraceful! :P https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgraQ-xkp4&pp=ygUta2luZyBjcmltc29uIGluIHRoZSBjb3VydCBvZiB0aGUgY3JpbXNvbiBraW5n https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgraQ-xkp4&pp=ygUta2luZyBjcml...

Applejinx 3y ago
One could also mention the Birotron. It was a mellotron-type instrument that Rick Wakeman had in the mid-seventies, but instead of the Mellotron strips of rewindable tape, it used 8-track tape housings to hold its tape. The members of Yes are said to have pranked Rick one day, by swapping out all the tapes for commercial 8-tracks, so when he began to play it was a cacophony of pop songs overlaid onto each other, rather than the appropriate sounds. It's said that Wakeman was quite cross :) (the instrument is heard on Tangerine Dream's album Force Majeure: strings and male choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afqgm3CzzQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afqgm3CzzQY )
devnull255 3y ago
Right? And King Crimson sold one of theirs to Tony Banks of Genesis. At least that's a claim here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron I loved its use on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.
hondo77 3y ago
Or Michael Pinder from The Moody Blues. You know, the guy who also introduced the Mellotron to The Beatles?
hayley-patton 3y ago
Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark also used the Mellotron in the early 80s, all over Architecture and Morality and Dazzle Ships. > But without actually having the confidence or the guts to work with a real choir we had to employ other means of trying to reproduce that massed choral sound, hence the Mellotrons. For example the Mellotron provided the violin lead and choir background in their single Maid of Orleans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg
Gordonjcp 3y ago
Or Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song.

by Lio 3y ago

Applejinx 3y ago

One could also mention the Birotron. It was a mellotron-type instrument that Rick Wakeman had in the mid-seventies, but instead of the Mellotron strips of rewindable tape, it used 8-track tape housings to hold its tape. The members of Yes are said to have pranked Rick one day, by swapping out all the tapes for commercial 8-tracks, so when he began to play it was a cacophony of pop songs overlaid onto each other, rather than the appropriate sounds. It's said that Wakeman was quite cross :) (the instrument is heard on Tangerine Dream's album Force Majeure: strings and male choir https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afqgm3CzzQY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afqgm3CzzQY )

devnull255 3y ago

Right? And King Crimson sold one of theirs to Tony Banks of Genesis. At least that's a claim here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mellotron I loved its use on The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

hondo77 3y ago

Or Michael Pinder from The Moody Blues. You know, the guy who also introduced the Mellotron to The Beatles?

hayley-patton 3y ago

Orchestral Manouevres in the Dark also used the Mellotron in the early 80s, all over Architecture and Morality and Dazzle Ships. > But without actually having the confidence or the guts to work with a real choir we had to employ other means of trying to reproduce that massed choral sound, hence the Mellotrons. For example the Mellotron provided the violin lead and choir background in their single Maid of Orleans: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmwMhjbThKg

Gordonjcp 3y ago

Or Led Zeppelin - The Rain Song.