holy shit £5200??!!???!?

that's like $8500, i'll buy a used one...


if anyone's curious i'm trying to gather together a psychedelic orchestra

mellotrons are fantastic.

Satan - I'm curious. Sounds like you're going for a big, layered sound. If so, I'm certainly looking forward to hearing the end results.

automatic bzooty - in my younger, protestant punk days, I used to sneer at Mellotrons for being the sound of the "enemy". Now I've grown up, they can sound gorgeous, though I still think that the very idea of Keith Emerson wanking away on one is enough to make me want to heave. But that's not the fault of the instument....King Crimson, Hendrix, the Zep and Quiet Sun knew how to use one.

at least an 8 piece band
i don't know if it's going to work out at all, it was mostly just an idea but i still want a mellotron at least for my own personal use

^^^Funny, I was thinking that the 2 bands who can do a psych orchestra sound at present are the Brian Jonestown Massacre, and MBV, at least on record. I think Spiritualized tried for that sort of sound as well, but for me it never really worked, due to everything being orchestrated as opposed to being arranged (a crucial difference, I feel).

if you come out like the polyphonic spree, I'm disowning you!!!!!!

Fixed.

Floating - isn't it about time we got together for our own Rock Band Sisters of Mercy tribute act? You can be Doktor Avalanche.

never. never. never.

Its a small world and it smells bad
I'd buy another if I had
Back
What I paid
For another motherfucker in a motorcade

omg I've always wanted to be the good Doktor!!!

can Satan be our Patricia Morrison? she doesn't even have to actually play..she can just stand around looking goth-sexy.


ok...I've worked up a little beat sample. it goes like this:

dun dun-dun tssssss

[very long pause]

dun dun-dun tssssss

[another long pause]

dun

[WAAAAAITING FOR ANOTHER WAAAAR and WAITING for my VAAAAL-ENNNN-TIIIIINE.]


holy crap, I sound just like him/it.

Victory is mine! I completed my e-mail!!! :D

and by the way the first Polyphonic Spree album was good gleeful fun. a bit sugary, perhaps, but just the right thing when the mood strikes me.

Yay! I am now officially a Class C driver. Meaning! I can legally drive

I've been driving these things for a little over 2 years without a Class C license and just got caught last month. I think I'm a bit too excited...

^^^ time to take on TEH ICE RD. now.

no. when it was only "sections 1-10", it was PURE FUCKING GENIUS.

I can only tolerate so much happiness though. especially when it's completely contrived.

We have a real mellotron in our band. Nowhere near as heavy as a regular organ. I love the sound of that thing!
If you're goign to get one, might as well go all the way and spend 14 grand on the clear one.

melly - yeah, just the words "keith emerson" make me a little naseous. but in the right hands, mellotrons sound great.

Our keyboard player is a bit older than the rest of us and is an electronics genius; he keeps his Mellotron and vintage synths in perfect condition and does all his own work.

also: trying a new mexican place and maybe continuing the star wars marathon! yay!

Perspex Mellotron:


Ours, from the back:

that's all well and good, but can he sing Andrenochome???

I can.



we’ll turn away in a passive decision we’ll take the steps through the unmarked door aaa a look back for another collision but the boys of the spires are boys no more not black and red boys frightened by the night by the catholic monochrome the catholic girls -now- stark in their dark and white DREAD IN MONOCHROME the sisters of mercy high tide wide eyed sped on adrenochrome for the sisters of mercy -filled with- panic in their eyes RISE dead on adrenochrome

we had the power we had the space space space we had a sense of time and place we knew the words we knew the score we knew what we were fighting for FOR THE FREEDOM -huh- the time to choose but time to think is time to lose the signals clash and disappear the shade's too loud and the sound's unclear for the


high tide wide eyed DREAD IN MONOCHROME but denied in spite disliked in monochrome -panic in their eyes- RISE dead and monochrome the sisters of mercy! -spite- on adrenochrome...

the way is clear the road is closed the damage done and the course imposed you we’ll turn away in a passive decision we’ll take the steps through the unmarked door aaa a look back for another collision but the boys of the spires are boys no more not black and red boys frightened by the night by the catholic monochrome the catholic girls -now- stark in their dark and white DREAD IN MONOCHROME the sisters of mercy high tide wide eyed sped on adrenochrome for the sisters of mercy -filled with- panic in their eyes RISE dead on adrenochrome chrome chrome chome...





PLEASE, HOLD YR APPLAUSE UNTIL THE DRUM MACHINE STOPS.