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[Stripey]

BBC Radio 4 Saturday 3 June 2006
Sampledelica! The History Of The Mellotron
10.30-11.00am BBC Radio 4



Launched in 1963, the Mellotron was the first music sampler – an instrument that could capture and play back other sounds. In this fascinating feature, which contains new interviews with Sir Paul McCartney, Paul Weller and Tony Banks from Genesis, Mark Radcliffe examines the history of the Mellotron and the part it played in British pop music history.



The programme examines the history of the instrument, investigates its impact on the music business as the earliest sampling technology and particularly how it was adopted by bands in the early Seventies progressive rock era. Tony Banks, the keyboardist with Genesis, talks of his love/hate relationship with the instrument, which proved notoriously difficult to take on the road. Other contributions come from Andy Partridge and David Gregory of XTC, Ian McDonald, the keyboardist from King Crimson, and Justin Haywood from The Moody Blues, who famously used the instrument on Nights In White Satin.

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Sundaram

There's some on here: http://www.sundaramusic.com/new2006/...y_Forecast.mp3

It should be a fun listen, I bet they get lots of info wrong though, for a start it wasn't the first tape based keyboard instrument.

I've given up on ever owning one, I'll console myself with lots of fuzz pedals instead.

[Alan Cynic]

Some day your mellotron will come.

Originally Posted by Alan Cynic

Some day your mellotron will come.

I'd rather have one of these amps: http://www.voxshowroom.com/uk/amp/conq.html

and one of these very rare original Gary Hurst Tone Benders: