madmike
I feel much better now, I really do...
I was just musing on the mellotron and then the thought struck me that I don't know where I first heard one...
Not over the radio because that would be Strawberry Fields or Space Oddity or something.
For me it would be Fragile Yes on LP. Did I know it was a mellotron...nope.
I had Moving Waves by Focus but was unaware that Thijs Van Leer used a mellotron. My first awareness of such an instrument was at a Genesis concert in 1973 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall and Tony Banks' white mellotron.
But it was not the first time I heard one live, that would have been Tony Kaye's with Badger supporting Yes at the Manchester Hardrock in late 1972. The live LP from that tour features some very prominent 'tron.
What's yours first mellotron experience, live and on LP ?
Not over the radio because that would be Strawberry Fields or Space Oddity or something.
For me it would be Fragile Yes on LP. Did I know it was a mellotron...nope.
I had Moving Waves by Focus but was unaware that Thijs Van Leer used a mellotron. My first awareness of such an instrument was at a Genesis concert in 1973 at the Manchester Free Trade Hall and Tony Banks' white mellotron.
But it was not the first time I heard one live, that would have been Tony Kaye's with Badger supporting Yes at the Manchester Hardrock in late 1972. The live LP from that tour features some very prominent 'tron.
What's yours first mellotron experience, live and on LP ?