[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Benn wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The problem with much of Zeppelin's music was that it became drenched in Mellotron. Listen to much of their live material post '1971 and all you can hear is bass notes played on the Mellotron. Frankly, it sounds shitty - boring passages of instrumentals warbling and wobbling under electronic nothingness.
Queen were, essentially, groundbreaking in their EXCLUSIVE claim "And No Synthesisers" up until 1979 and is one of the reasons I had such great admiration for them.[/QUOTE]
Huh?!
I'm a huge Zep fan with somewhere near 100 boots, and the mellotron was pretty much only used on The Rain Song, Kashmir & Stairway to Heaven. There are some versions of Thank You from Japan 72 that have the mellotron. There are no bass notes played on the mellotron!
King Crimson, circa 69-72, incorporated some tasty mellotron via Bob Fripp.
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[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]goinback wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kohuept wrote: [/QUOTENAME]I may be missing the point, but how would it have made a difference in the studio? They would still have had to record each part, right?[/QUOTE]
Well it seems like they could have experimented with Bo Rhap a little more...tried different voices for the choir on the fly, etc.
I was just thinking of the Mellotron as a way to sample human voices and everyday sound effects, and maybe as an aid when building everyone's voices into a choir. I know Queen would never want it as a replacement for real instruments...I'd never even thought of Brian using it for his guitar at all, I hope that's not what he thought I meant! ;)
(I think someone mistakenly thought I was talking about a Moog...again it wasn't anything like a synth, organ, etc. All the keys played strips of analog magnetic tape, and since Queen liked fooling around with magnetic tape anyway I thought that's why they'd like it.)[/QUOTE]
No, that's not what I thought
In order to use a Mellotron, though, don't you have to record each note/key/tape separately?
I don't think the technology was there for it to do it itself. That would mean they would have to sing each part anyway and recording it on a Mellotron would anly decrease the quality. They were still able to experiment with different parts of a harmony before they were bounced.
As someone else wrote, I'm sure it was purely personal preference.
Well it seems like they could have experimented with Bo Rhap a little more...tried different voices for the choir on the fly, etc.
I was just thinking of the Mellotron as a way to sample human voices and everyday sound effects, and maybe as an aid when building everyone's voices into a choir. I know Queen would never want it as a replacement for real instruments...I'd never even thought of Brian using it for his guitar at all, I hope that's not what he thought I meant! ;)
(I think someone mistakenly thought I was talking about a Moog...again it wasn't anything like a synth, organ, etc. All the keys played strips of analog magnetic tape, and since Queen liked fooling around with magnetic tape anyway I thought that's why they'd like it.)[/QUOTE]
No, that's not what I thought
In order to use a Mellotron, though, don't you have to record each note/key/tape separately?
I don't think the technology was there for it to do it itself. That would mean they would have to sing each part anyway and recording it on a Mellotron would anly decrease the quality. They were still able to experiment with different parts of a harmony before they were bounced.
As someone else wrote, I'm sure it was purely personal preference.
Like I had said about the Bag pipes, Roger and Freddie were experimenting with them in other ways than music....thats why they never used one!
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]kingarthur wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Like I had said about the Bag pipes, Roger and Freddie were experimenting with them in other ways than music....thats why they never used one![/QUOTE]
I was thinking the same thing!
http://www.queenzone.com/queenzone/forumnew/forum_topic_view.aspx?Q=787496
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I was thinking the same thing!
http://www.queenzone.com/queenzone/forumnew/forum_topic_view.aspx?Q=787496
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