20 Mellotron Golden Greats

[Lotobear]

Okay, we can pitch it at more than 20 but I'll start it off with some low hanging fruit:

Epitaph, King Crimson
Tuesday Afternoon, Moody Blues
Space Oddity, David Bowie

[Simes205]

Strawberry fields, the Beatles.

[P5BNij]

Nights In White Satin - The Moody Blues

2000 Light Years From Home - The Rolling Stones

[stevejh]

Watcher of the Skies - Genesis

[Evangelion]

Never Let Go - Camel

Watcher Of The Skies/Entangled - Genesis

And You And I - Yes

Maid Of Orleans - OMD

Wonderwall - Oasis (Noel let the cello sound on his M400 run right to the end, so on the final note of his song you can hear it come to a sudden stop as the tape runs out.)

Just about anything by Barclay James Harvest (They pushed their old Mk II down a staircase so they could claim on the insurance and buy a new M300 with the proceeds.)

Me! - Mellotron is all over my home recordings, I can't get enough of it.

[55palfers]

I could name dozens of Moodies tracks featuring the Mellotron.

Mike Pinder used to work for Streetly Electronics.

[Wacky Racer]

55palfers said:

I could name dozens of Moodies tracks featuring the Mellotron.

Mike Pinder used to work for Streetly Electronics.

Anything by the late great Woolly Wolstenholme from Barclay James Harvest, a very good friend of Martin Smith at Streetly.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nq8GBCCrCRY

[Wacky Racer]

"Ra"...….. Barclay James Harvest (1976)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZQPLX9Jgso

[Evangelion]

Because the M300 used nylon bearings which used to stick, causing the tapes to tangle and break, Woolly preferred not to change stations, so mostly used the same two sounds, Strings A and Strings B. These were only available on the M300 which used 1/4" tapes as opposed to the 3/8" ones on other models. Strings A was two violins in unison (thus slightly smoother than the famous '3 Violins'* on the Mk II), and Strings B was a single violin played very quietly.

Listen to Watching And Waiting by the Moodies as a great example of Strings B (Mike Pinder had just bought a 300) which is one of my favourite Tron sounds.

• Without '3 Violins' the whole genre of Prog Rock would probably not exist!

[Wacky Racer]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptWMkT9jiL8

[Evangelion]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODNVNjcV_58

[Halmyre]

"This Wheel's On Fire" Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and The Trinity (Mellotron AND Hammond - double your pleasure)
"Starless" King Crimson
"Ladytron" Roxy Music

[55palfers]

Some great live Moodies from IoW Festival - featuring Mike and his Mellotron

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNalya_4VkQ

Album version with early synth (VCS3?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEx1C9O7lVk

RIP Ray Thomas

Edited by 55palfers on Saturday 27th April 15:22

[Evangelion]

55palfers said:

... Album version with early synth (VCS3?) ...

Think it was a Minimoog.