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Yes  Five Percent for Nothing   Favoriting Fragile  Atlantic  0:00:00 (Pop-up)
 
Deep Purple with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra  Second Movement   Favoriting Concerto for Group and Orchestra  Tetragrammaton Records  0:03:35 (Pop-up)
 
Earth and Fire  Song of the Marching Children   Favoriting Song of the Marching Children  Polydor Records  0:18:43 (Pop-up)
 
Zopp  Bushnell Keeler   Favoriting Dominion  Flat Circle  0:27:52 (Pop-up)
 
Khan  Space Shanty   Favoriting Space Shanty  PVC  0:34:42 (Pop-up)
 
Ibrahim Maalouf  If You Wanna Be a Woman   Favoriting Illusions  Mi'ster Productions  0:45:13 (Pop-up)
 
Amon Düül  Frequency   Favoriting Disaster  Spalax Music  0:52:57 (Pop-up)


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Listener comments!

  7:01pm
ike-o:

Peace
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Hi Dave and all!!!
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Handy Haversack:

It' go time!

MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG! MANDLPROG!

Gonna be listening while getting the sauce on.
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redkayak:

Happy Monday, everyone!
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TroyD8:

Hey!
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dale:

hey now.
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Ciggy:

I'm all in
  7:02pm
bleubombersune:

Evening Dave and all prog fanatics
  7:02pm
mic_a:

Hello Dave and progressives! Let us complicate the narrative yet again.
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HollyRT:

Evening all
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chresti:

Hi Dave and complicated music show!
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StringOFperils:

Sweet Child in Time?
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Hullo Prawgressivez !
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dale:

blackmore's night might fit sometime.
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Franco Twinkie:

I would love to hear Kentucky Woman, but I'll settle for Space Truckin'
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luka:

good evening
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Chris Hiatt:

Hi Dave Mandl, and fellow progressive rockers. Throwing the Deep Purple gauntlet down, getting right to it!
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Coach32sm:

And Mary Long is a hypocrite by the way!!!!
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StringOFperils:

Most of the band didn't really feel that project...it was Jon Lord's thing,(according to interviews posted on YT) and they went, "Uh, okay let's try it I guess..."
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redkayak:

So......I'm thinking now....is ELO prog?
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dday:

Perhaps "Shield" from The Book of Taliesyn by Deep
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Franco Twinkie:

Actually, Shades of Deep Purple is one of my favorite records to put on while I'm cooking.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

definitely not AI produced
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pot8o:

hi everyone!
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Ken From Hyde Park:

Deep Purple for derp people!
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Dave Mandl:

Evening, all!
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dale:

never heard this. lovely.
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dday:

↳ dale @7:03
an acquaintance of mine drummed for Blackmore's Night. He said Blackmore's actually a really funny guy
  7:07pm
bleubombersune:

right at my fingertips conducted by Malcolm Arnold love the organ cadenza of this movement
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alan the painter:

oh my gosh, eye em gonna cry...
  7:07pm
Jackie G:

Lovers of prog unite!
  7:07pm
mic_a:

Nice pick. Those guys really played the edge game between prog, hard rock and metal. (I will try to avoid my hard rock/heavy metal dichotomy hobby horse. Really, we don't want that.)
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alan the painter:

noh ironing intended!
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HollyRT:

↳ redkayak @7:05
I think you could make a case for some of the stuff on their first album anyway
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dale:

↳ dday @7:07
you have to be fun to play the hurdy gurdy.
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StringOFperils:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @7:06
Good point. Beautifully flawed as it majestically falls on its face in very human ways, by attempting things that can't be planned out; and randomness yields things that are TRULY new
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Dave Mandl:

Hey there Will, Handy, redkayak, Troy, dale, Ciggy, bleubombersune, mic_a, Holly, chresti, String, RRN63, date, Fanco, luka, Chris, Coach, dday, pot8o, Ken, alan!
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ dday @7:07
John Lord is a funny guy too - in that oh so English way.
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ultradamno:

In Rock was great for presenting who would be on the Mount Rushmore of guys in Deep Purple
  7:08pm
Jackie G:

Yes did a cool symphonic album.
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alan the painter:

im crying fire the conductor!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ ultradamno @7:08
That's MY Mt. Rushmore.
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dday:

↳ dale @7:08
that's what I was thinking :) and wear those hats & stuff
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dale:

this is mountain right here. theme from an imaginary western. who came first?
  7:09pm
Marie:

I'm enjoying this
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alan the painter:

pain filled a 70's tear a crock dial tear, tare it up
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dday:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:08
He passed away..did he not ? Great keyboards
  7:11pm
mic_a:

My folks never bought my argument that a Hammond B3 would make for a handsome coffee table in middle of the living room.
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alan the painter:

the guitar, im commin around...
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chresti:

↳ alan the painter @7:07
haha
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ dday @7:10
Did he!? Aw man.
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Coach32sm:

That's deep Deep Purple I can listen to Ritchie Blackmore all day!!!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ mic_a @7:11
Philistines!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Song: "Second Movement" by "Deep Purple with the Royal P...
Ian Gillan (aka Jesus Christ) ?
...If Purple is Prawg, interesting then Rod Evans went to Captain Beyond ...whom I don't think you've played yet ??...
  7:11pm
P-90:

The all-important electric organ
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StringOFperils:

↳ dale @7:09
Felix Pappalardi was very much on the scene, working with Cream etc, so he was there
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alan the painter:

hammond saves thee daye
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Dave Mandl:

Is Lon Lord gone? I don't think I knew that.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

I'm enjoying the moment, I believe they are working on #2. nah its good.
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redkayak:

↳ mic_a @7:11
hah!
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dday:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:11
had to look it up just now buy yeah...in 2012
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Franco Twinkie:

This is fantastic - take that AI!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ dale @7:08
Yes. I was just listening to Malicorne on the drive home, homeboy was crushing the Hurdy Gurdy.
  7:14pm
Jackie G:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @7:12
He thought this was #1, sounds more like #2.
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Franco Twinkie:

Did John Lord ever play with Jack Bruce?
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dday:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:12
yes he is... 2012
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dale:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:13
have to give them a listen.
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:11
I'm willing to call this prog. DP would clinch the deal if they took this orchestra on tour.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ dday @7:14
Aw, man.
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Coach32sm:

Yeah Jon Lord is gone. I remember where I was when I heard it, but can't say!!!
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luka:

i’m gonna need some Uriah Heep as a palate cleanser
  7:15pm
Marie:

good soundtrack for a movie about a demented Dracula?
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Juli:

Present.
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Marie @7:15
HA!
  7:16pm
Marie:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:15
@))
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dday:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:14
If you want tos tons of cash, deal with orchestras. So many rules, most are unionized..Ask Zappa..he lost at least $500K doing things with orchestras
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dday:

↳ dday @7:17
*to lose*
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Juli:

↳ Marie @7:15
I'm getting Nosferatu type Nazi Germany type vibes from this idea but it's a metaphor for our undying emotional pains as human being to love and be loved or some shites:)
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ dday @7:17
What Zappa lost was our gain.
  7:18pm
Peter from Boonton formerly Dover NJ:

I know they meant well, but IMHO not one of Deep Purple's better efforts.
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StringOFperils:

Orchestras are mostly done like dinner. Technology has 'replaced' them. Most world orchestras have already vaporized. The economics haven't supported them.
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dday:

Lots of these English Hammond players were influenced by Scotsman Billy Ritchie of 1-2-3 and Clouds
  7:19pm
tom tom the pipers son:

no wind?
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chresti:

I think I learned Smoke on the Water on the guitar?
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Juli:

Or some *shite
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Marshland:

Big fan of Earth and Fire's early prog stuff. Sadly they ended up doing insipid disco fare...
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olivia:

i love it here
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chresti:

↳ chresti @7:19
part of it, like 3 or 4 bars?
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Juli:

This is very disco
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:19
hate to break it... no wind here
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alan the painter:

...comedy hr
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dday:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @7:20
no wind..no third movement...have some White Castle
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ dday @7:17
Yep. Someone shoulda told all that to ELP. Didn't they take an orchestra on tour and lose their shirts, contributing to their breakup? Not sure I have all the facts straight there.
  7:21pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @7:20
oh no you didn't!
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Franco Twinkie:

With the simplification of pop music, the audacity of this like seen a new color.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

I'm diggin it
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dale:

this makes toes tap.
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dday:

↳ Chris Hiatt @7:21
"prohibitively expensive" I wonder if that led to EMerson's eventual suicide. Damn shame, so talented
  7:24pm
Marie:

↳ Juli @7:17
mm hmm. I was thinking more like a dracula who is "losing it" in a comedic way. I recently learned (from DJ Monica) of a version of Dracula by Mel Brooks starring Leslie Neilson that might fit that bill
  7:24pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "Song of the Marching Children" by "Earth and Fire"
This sounds like a synth with a nasal condition
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chresti:

↳ olivia @7:20
me too
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dale:

i feel like only the moodies used a mellotron as an instrument and not just accompaniment.
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chresti:

That seemed a bit overwrought
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dday:

The DMI Mellotron is such a "unique" sound but such a pain in the ass to keep working properly . I have a friend who owns one. I think he played it ..once :)
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SeaCreature:

Dunno about you but when I break out the mellotron when I’m writing, it’s instant King Crimson
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ dday @7:23
My understanding is Keith Emerson had some illness or disability that impaired his playing - which I presume motivated his action.
  7:26pm
Jackie G:

Moody Blues would stop concerts while Mike Pinder fixed the tapes on the mellotron.
  7:26pm
P-90:

you could also mix-and-match the tapes
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dale:

↳ Jackie G @7:26
yeah - after a while they just used a recording of his mellotron and his mellotron wasn't actually on. so it was like he was on bandstand.
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luka:

hello geniuses
  7:27pm
tom tom the pipers son:

@dave, what did beach boys use mellotron on? was it brian wilson's doing?
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dday:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:26
yeah. i just looked it up as it's been awhile. Lots of bad things happening all at once with him.
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Franco Twinkie:

Just describing how a mellotron works gives me a migraine.
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Kat in Chicago:

smarty pantses
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chresti:

I want a mellotron
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dale:

geniuses? more like the guys who got picked last in gym class.
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Kat in Chicago:

↳ dale @7:28
can't it be both?
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StringOFperils:

↳ dale @7:28
Yes. And?
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ dale @7:28
You got that right!
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dday:

↳ chresti @7:28
I'd settle for a watermelontron
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Marshland:

A VST Mellotron is a lot easier to deal with...
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ dale @7:28
Lol.
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Will thee Sound Guy:

get some shreddyguitar mellotron tapes
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Dave Mandl:

↳ dale @7:28
LOL.
  7:29pm
Jackie G:

↳ dale @7:27
Then he left the band.
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ultradamno:

↳ Kat in Chicago @7:28
I expect that was true of Einstein until he married his cousin and showed them!
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Marshland:

The M-Tron Pro for example, can play some Chamberlin samples too
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TroyD8:

↳ Song: "Bushnell Keeler" by "Zopp"
Thanks for new Prog hook up!
  7:31pm
tom tom the pipers son:

@dave, the comments are moving fast so i'll repeat... what did the beach boys use mellotron on?
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Marie:

that's one nice thing about a lot of prog--nice bouncy bass lines
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HollyRT:

I would guess a vintage Mellotron would run you about 10-15k
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Dave Mandl:

↳ tom tom the pipers son @7:31
I don't remember offhand, but they definitely used one.
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Handy Haversack:

Sauce is on the simmer.

Dave, have you heard


phantomspell.bandcamp.com...

"A tantalising Prog-Rock journey through the mind of a deteriorating wizard"
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Dave Mandl:

Elton John used one a lot, inc. on "Daniel."
  7:32pm
tom tom the pipers son:

ok
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dale:

↳ HollyRT @7:31
must be a 200 dollar yamaha that comes close.
  7:32pm
P-90:

Tidbit: Rick Wakeman broke in as a session player in London in the late sixties when lots of groups and producers wanted to try Mellotron on their tracks and he became the go-to guy to call because he figured out how to work with the slight delay between depressing the keys and hearing the notes. They’d get him in for sessions w/Mellotron, then discover what a great all-around keys player and musician he was.
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chresti:

↳ HollyRT @7:31
Are vintage better than new if there's a new?
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ HollyRT @7:31
'I can't catch a ball, but I can fix your Mellotron'
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dday:

↳ Song: "Bushnell Keeler" by "Zopp"
I liked that
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HollyRT:

↳ chresti @7:33
I doubt it, but you know how people are
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Marshland:

According to one web source, the Beach Boys used the Chamberlin (precursor to the Mellotron) on Wild Honey and Sunflower
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "Bushnell Keeler" by "Zopp"
The saxophonist was great! Saxamaphone can be real hit or miss in the genre.
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StringOFperils:

↳ chresti @7:33
Nope. Vintage barely worked when new.
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dale:

streaming station progradio.com plays a lot of newer prog that is pretty decent. they play more newer stuff than vintage.
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Rich in Washington:

Love Hillage's stuff.
  7:35pm
tom tom the pipers son:

↳ Marshland @7:34
thanks marshland!
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Barry P.:

Zopp loves Canterbury scene music, so going to Khan next makes sense.
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Coach32sm:

King Khan
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HollyRT:

Logic Pro X has an excellent VST mellotron.
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Coach32sm:

A super Group!!!!
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Ciggy:

Blam-Blam
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chresti:

↳ StringOFperils @7:34
Can AI make a mellotron?
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Dave Mandl:

There's a Mellotron guitar pedal! Makes your guitar/bass sound like a Mellotron.
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StringOFperils:

↳ chresti @7:36
AI can make anything. Just watch. And also, just watch out.
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Dave Mandl:

↳ HollyRT @7:35
Ah! You need to use it on your recordings, Holly.
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Rich in Washington:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:36
The Electro Harmonix one? I've heard it. It's really good.
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HollyRT:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:37
I do!
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Dave Mandl:

I believe it's Electro-Harmonix, yes,
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alan the painter:

i missed this in HS, and 801, some things you jus donut git! errr...
gosh seventy_ies sun on my shoulder...
thank you Dave
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Rich in Washington @7:37
is it the cathedral?
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Handy Haversack:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:36
Sound like a Mellotron sounding like a guitar/bass?
  7:39pm
P-90:

And of course these days there are patches available for digital keyboards that contain actual Mellotron samples. So nowadays it’s easy to give those tones a spin without having to baby the ancient (and hard to find) cranky analog machine along.
  7:40pm
mic_a:

I'm remembering that in that radio interview, way, way back; Hillage noted that Zappa, particularly on "It Must Be A Camel," was a big influence on him.
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StringOFperils:

That really old Laurie Anderson performance where she would stand out on the street wearing a pair of ice-skates frozen into a big block of ice while playing an electric violin with a bow that had recording tape instead of horse-hair and a violin that had a playback-head so that it would say something backward and forward as she bowed it, that was essentially a mellotron. (the performance ended when the ice melted enough to frre the skates) A mellotron is pretty primitive mechanical thing.
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TroyD8:

↳ Song: "Space Shanty" by "Khan"
Gotta love Hillage!
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luka:

↳ Song: "Space Shanty" by "Khan"
i was slightly late to the show because i was reconfiguring my delay pedal chain so this speaks to me
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Rich in Washington:

↳ Will thee Sound Guy @7:39
Yeah! I watched a demo video of it fairly recently and in particular liked the Mellotron simulation.
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HollyRT:

And let's not forget about the "poor man's mellotron"--the Optigan!!
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Will thee Sound Guy:

↳ Rich in Washington @7:42
My buddy used to have one in his math rock band
  7:43pm
P-90:

Some prog fans regard Space Shanty as a foundational (and underrated) prog album
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TroyD8:

↳ luka @7:41
I was reconfiguring my pedal board earlier today as well!
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Rich in Washington:

↳ HollyRT @7:43
We had an Optigan in our household as a kid - a cast-off from a well off uncle who became bored of it.
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chresti:

↳ HollyRT @7:43
Optigon!
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:38
I wonder if this pedal could be used by flautists?
  7:46pm
mic_a:

I remember seeing an Optigan with a rack of sound discs in a Sears store back in the day. It seemed quite ignored and dusty.
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HollyRT:

↳ Rich in Washington @7:44
An ex of mine had one. They're fun
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

Whereas most Aunts would not opt against the Optigan again & again.
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Rich in Washington:

↳ HollyRT @7:46
they really were fun. I remember playing the pipe organ disc a lot and playing all the major chords over and over on the chord buttons. It sounded like a horror movie soundtrack. That and messing with the pitch all the time.
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Dave Mandl:

Optigan used CD-like discs, right?
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StringOFperils:

This time signature was every progger and fusion-jazzer's metre for a few years. The later Soft Machine, Pierre Moerlin's Gong, Chick Corea's Return to Forever. 7/8 Couldn't get away from it.
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HollyRT:

There's actually an Optigan app available for like $5, with samples of all the original sounds discs. iOptigan is the name
  7:48pm
Jackie G:

↳ Song: "If You Wanna Be a Woman" by "Ibrahim Maalouf"
Its how you say? Prog - ish
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Carmichael:

No Optigan here, but I got a Wurlitzer for FREE from the family of a neighbor who passed away. I just had to haul it out of there. Pro tip: always have a hand truck in your possession!
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Dave Mandl:

↳ StringOFperils @7:48
True. 7/8 (or 7/4) and 5/4 are the big ones.
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StringOFperils:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:49
Yes. Anything that you could study in university, and couldn't learn playing in bars.
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Rich in Washington:

↳ Dave Mandl @7:48
They were these clear floppy acetate discs which had a waveform like thing for each sample printed on it in concentric bands.
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Carmichael:

↳ StringOFperils @7:48
Jean Luc Ponty, Imaginary Voyage.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:47
...whilst eight uncles in an optogon would opt in on opting out of the Optigan - aggravating eight Aunties but to our optimal optagonal gain.
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Carmichael @7:49
I have a Hammond Piper. It's collecting dust in my moms garage. Wanna jam?
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ultradamno:

It's a treacherous journey down the optigan trail
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Rich in Washington @7:49
I gather same principle by which Movie Film had Optical soundtracks ?
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Carmichael:

↳ Carmichael @7:49
Oh, and Jimmy Smith lived down the dirt road from me for a while. I wandered his barn full of keyboard instruments many times.
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Barba Yiorgi:

BTW This tempo of 7/8 is typical for music from the Black Sea coast of Turkey, which includes folk music of the Laz and most especially the "Pontic" Greeks (nowadays mostly resident in places like northern Greece and um, Astoria Queens...)
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Carmichael:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:51
Dude, we could rock!
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mic_a:

See, now to me this is more jazz fusion than prog, but week by week here, I have realized my prog definition is narrower than average.
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Rich in Washington:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:51
Yes. I believe so. A black squiggly line that looks like a waveform. I still have a couple of Optigan discs for some reason.
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mic_a:

Not a complaint on the choice! I dig it.
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Franco Twinkie:

↳ Carmichael @7:52
Can you just imagine?
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chresti:

↳ Franco Twinkie @7:51
There's a Thomas here
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ Carmichael @7:51
Wull damn !
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Jackie G:

↳ mic_a @7:52
its prog - ish
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StringOFperils:

↳ Song: "If You Wanna Be a Woman" by "Ibrahim Maalouf"
I loved that. No shame here.
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Chris Hiatt:

↳ Song: "If You Wanna Be a Woman" by "Ibrahim Maalouf"
Another contemporary track!
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P-90:

Maalouf is primo
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Juli:

Thanks for the great hour of music
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Carmichael:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:52
We could set them to jam together, and go out for a beer.
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Rich in Washington:

Oh wow. I was just listening to Amon Düül this morning!
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Dave Mandl:

Thanks for joining me, folks. You're the best. Have a great week.
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dday:

back in '93 or so I was living in this tiny house, that was actually a converted garage. address was 12 1/2..no kidding.

I was good friends with this pair of guys, one who was a well known auctioneer in Orange County, NY & his sidekick called Chickie.

One day Chickie comes in the bar & says to me "hey, you play music right?"

I said, "a little, what's up?"

He said.."I have a church pipe organ..you want it?"

I said Chickie, "you've seen my house, what do you think?"
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Jackie G:

Amon Duul is cool.
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Carmichael:

Took me a loing time to figure out that Amon Duul and Amon Duul II were 2 very different sounding bands.
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Barry P.:

Thanks Dave
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HollyRT:

↳ Carmichael @7:49
www.discogs.com...
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pot8o:

thanks dave! have a great week everyone!
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chresti:

Wild Thing
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Will thee Sound Guy:

Thank you Dave, great show!!!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

...wait - whut ?
...You started like ...a *minute* ago...
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Handy Haversack:

Thanks, Dave! Another great show.
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TroyD8:

Thanks Dave & Prog people!
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dday:

↳ Revolution Rabbit Nov63 @7:56
Prog time is like dog years :)
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mic_a:

Thanks Dave! Take care people!
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Rich in Washington:

This show goes so fast.
Thanks so much Dave! Always dig this show!
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HollyRT:

Goes too fast
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Coach32sm:

Prog Gress
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dale:

↳ Song: "Frequency" by "Amon Düül"
thanks! great show. too short....
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Barba Yiorgi:

Great show, Dave! Edu-ma-kayshunal even!
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StringOFperils:

Amon Duul was more of a group of squatters or maybe a political cell when it first started. Some kind of accidental anarchy that evolved into a band.
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Franco Twinkie:

Oh yeah, we have a Thomas Troubadour 181 piled with all manor of crap in our extra room. Anyone with a hand truck is welcome to come and get it.
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Chris Hiatt:

7 songs, 1 hour. So proggy. Thanks for your selections, Dave!
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bleubombersune:

Dave thanks for the super musical selection of this evening
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spodiodi:

thanks, Dave
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Barry P.:

They interviewed two members of Amon Duul in this doc about Krautrock:
youtu.be...
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SeaCreature:

Thanks, another great show
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luka:

thank u Dave always a welcome monday relief
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Jackie G:

Thanks, man
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StringOFperils:

↳ Barry P. @7:58
Thanks for that link.
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G:

↳ dday @7:23
Was listening on phone, couldn't get logged in. On laptop now. -- Emerson banged the heck out of keyboards, eventually had to have carpal tunnel surgery or the like.That worked for while, but when things deteriorated again in the early 10s and he could no longer play to a level satisfactory to him, he deliberately checked out. Yes,he could have retired from playing, but that's not what he wanted to do.
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StringOFperils:

Thank you, Dave!!
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Marie:

Thanks, Dave!
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Franco Twinkie:

Thanks Dave.
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

↳ chresti @7:55
Machine Thing !
...You compress my wound spring !
...my gears is twirling !
Machine Thing !
Machine Thing
...I think I designed you
- so I wanna know for sure
...are you functionog to specifications ??
...I analyze you...
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Barry P.:

↳ StringOFperils @7:59
Just be warned there's a few minutes of audio missing
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P-90:

Thanks Dave!
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Revolution Rabbit Nov63:

~ TY Always DJ DaveMandl ~
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chresti:

↳ dday @7:54
Man! Pipe Organ!
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dday:

↳ G @7:59
Seems he had a lot of bad things go down over a short period & checked out. Sad. I loved early ELP
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chresti:

Thanks Dave!
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dday:

↳ chresti @8:00
my ceilings were less than 7' :)
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