I didn't see any standing ovations for him singing and playing here. And by the way, applause comes at the end of stage performances. Its earned. Especially from people paying to be entertained. I feel like you're a spam-posting shill probably getting paid by someone to post brown-nosing blather that will get "likes" because someone thinks likes + views = "revenue" from UA-cam.
How is it possible that he sounds absolutely identical, can play all instruments and parts of the original Paul, is left-handed, and bares a an exact resemblance to the original Paul? My guess that.... IT"S PAUL!
google glitched it right when paul was about to say queer....to protect the delicate gender ambiguous snowflakes from being offended in case pepsi but in ad around this vid
From Strawberry Fields to Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues) to especially Watcher of the Skies (Genesis). Man this really said The Beatles and Prog Rock in a nutshell. Excellent instrument!!
"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" features the mellotron. It opens with a spanish guitar sound, then enters into a mandolin during the verses. It closes the piece on a trombone sound.
If anyone's wondering, the samples Paul's using for the first tune is AfroCuban SlowPiano UL_RyFi Mellotron MKII, which can be downloaded for the Nord series of synthesizers.
Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues introduced the mellotron to the beatles in 1966. The Moody Blues used the mellotron on stage and on their records throughout the sixties and seventies.
The last part were Paul does strawberry fields intro was so beautiful. I haven't heard anything as wonderful and peaceful as that. When he played that I felt like the Beatles were still together...
That song he improvises with the Mellotron presets around 0:55 must be what the Beatles did back in the 60s in the studio for fun. It probably was hilarious with all of them improvising songs,all stoned. However,in 2005, the joke just doesn't work.And Macca just kept repeating it for cameras (I have a 1997 video with the same joke). The Mellotron is an amazing instrument. 50 plus years after it was invented, with all the synths, plug ins, computers that appeared in the meantime, it still has some of the best sounds I've ever heard: the brass, the choirs, the violins, just fill a a song mix in a way no other instrument can.
True. This is not the best advertisement for the instrument, except, as I've already said, at the end of the clip. Paul's showing off is rather painful to watch.
Can't stand when Macca does this, retrospective (YET IMPORTANT) stuff that happened almost 60 years ago, and it sounds like he's over exaggerating for the cameras. I can picture John Lennon telling the same story in about 20 seconds....oh the Mellotron, those damn tapes inside use to break all the time you know!! Yoko threw mine out you know!!
Khayyam1048 I guess if your Paul McCartney,former beatle,you should be able to show off a little,even though he wasn’t “showing off”,what a stupid statement,some of you should focus your judgmental little microscopes you look at him through.
SO cool. I read that in one of the magazines of tape loops - I think it was the pre-recorded cello sound or something like that - you could hear the scraping of a chair that picked up on the recording of one of the notes. Pretty funny in a retro sort of way :)
You're all a bunch of hosers, right? Because, it's actually a GREAT revealing bit of video. I learned that tape loops in the true rhythmic sense started here. Before I thought sustain would utilize tape activity. it was Strawberry Fields for me, and what a sound that was!
Each key is connected to a length of magnetic tape. Part of the instrument has rhythm recordings and the other part has solo instruments. Pressing a key engages a drive mechanism and letting it up allows a spring to quickly yank the tape back into ready position. The whole tape frame is replaceable so you can change to a different bank of sounds. Quite a gadget!
RaineStudio Yeah I always have known about the instrument but never knew how it worked. As soon as i saw this video I watched several UA-cam videos on how they work. I wonder if you can still get new tape cartridges for these devices? I'm sure someone out there could make new ones...I also learned that you had a choice of different tape cartridges you could use for different sounds...
what type of mellotron is that and what tape loop is he playing that sounds like a 50s bar band i thought the mellotron was maybe a mk1 chamberlin but i dont think so idk
One of the first synthesizers in the world. When I was a kid, I thought the harmonica was the first synthesizer in the world and I also thought it was a synthesizer. Then I learned it was not a synthesizer.
Well, you know how much easier it is to sit in one's vaunted critic's chair and tear down people. Praise and accolades to others ultimately come at the price of one's pride/ego/jealousy, God forbid! Good for you for taking the high road and chuckling about it all.
0:13 The Mellotron is really a forerunner of the sampler, and would inspire instruments like the Birotron (until that instrument fell off the face of the earth) and the Fairlight CMI of the 80s. I'd say the true forerunner of the synthesizer is the Hammond Novachord, or perhaps the Telharmonium even further back.
2:08 Fun fact: C418 also sampled this very section for his song "Stal" from Minecraft! If you listen to the C418 version, the riff appears at the 1:30 mark in this video ua-cam.com/video/0E5l2GHBxB8/v-deo.html. I like to think he watched this very video in 2011 when he was developing the album for the game and enjoyed it enough to feature a part of it in his music.
That machine did not have those tapes in it originally. Thats a sound effects model. It would have had things like gun shots and other weird stuff on the tapes. This is indicated by it being grey. A lot of them were converted to normal tapes. The home use ones had the drums etc on the left and the strings, flutes and brass on the right. Most rock musicians stripped out the rythm ones and replaced them with duplicate right hand tapes so they could play longer than 8 seconds.
The best thing about Old Paul is that he will help you laugh at him, just because he wants you to have a good time. ...If you like this and you have not heard You Know My Name (Look Up The Number), which was originally a B-side (I think of Get Back), listen to it for more awesome Beatles comedy.
@@princetbug I actually recall sending him a message on his website back when I made this comment. I asked him something about his use of the mellotron, can't remember precisely what it was. I know that he never responded.
I have to chuckle at the negative comments...the criticism.... The man is a musical workhorse and genius. The other half of the greatest songwriting team of the past several hundred years.... and yet people talk shit.... Question - What have YOU done? Where are your Gold/Platinum/Diamond records? Where is your $500 million in the bank? Where the your crowds that will follow you literally anywhere you play? Thought so........ It's not all about the money, it's about respect.
Gotta love these super analogue samplers, must have been so much fun to use back then. I know John Lennon and Brian Wilson loved them and the Chamberlain.
Analog forever! I play electronic organs and love them. They were awesome instruments and still are. Find one on Craigslist for next to nothing. That's the fun part. The sad part is that in the organ community there are 3 schools- classical, theater, and Hammond B3, they are digitizing pipe organs and B3's, but NOBODY is digitizing the electronic theater organs and electronic classical organs. Stupid pipe purists have always said 'electronic organs are inferior imitations of pipes'. Not true!
Okay, I'm crying again, LOL! It terrifies me that this stuff will be lost forever...The Beatles will only be recognized as a great rock and roll group and that's it. I'm worried that the younger generations will never realize what innovators the Beatles were and that music would never sound the way it does today without their influence! It's history, man! Blows my mind and touches me so deeply I tear up everytime I hear the creativity...
What people should remember it was ahead of its time then and bought by many many top artistes. Unfortunately they chose to use a tape format rather develop it further (digitally) so it quickly went out of fashion. It was also bought by the BBC in a sound effects format. You could play notes from practically any instruments using the keyboard and a vast array of rhythms and Chords at whatever speed you wished. It could sound like a complete band or group and be operated by one person. As a kid I had great fun playing it in Dads office while he did the paperwork as he was the salesman for the small company formed by Bandleader Eric Robinson and David Nixon a TV magician to market it. Hugh Melville
The unions hated it. Tried to charge union rate for every musical instrument on it. Really got them upset, and they likely played a large part in it's demise.
They definitely didn't significantly contribute to it's demise. Mike Pinder demonstrated how he was using it with lead samples on both sides, and they generally accepted it as a keyboard instrument, after that. Polyphonic synths and digital samplers did, years later, though.
I was wondering how you do a full keyboard slide from C major to G minor. Then I realized that you turn it into a minor 7th by sliding to Bb without the without the bottom note.
Did we really need to see reaction shots of the zilches in the audience bopping their heads? Fire the director. It's a concert, not the X Factor. You focus on the artist.
The Mellotron was neither digital nor a synthesizer. Their sound comes from tape. That's as analog as it gets. Despite PM's comment on the video, it was a sampler, not a synth. He did use the word "precursor," but "precursor to digital samplers" is more accurate.
And it wasn't even a sampler, actually. It was a sample player. You could not sample with the mellotron. The "samples" (tape recordings) were recorded in advance and one installed the tape frames containing the "instruments"
Agreed - also some of the audience members look like they'd fit right in at that bar on Tatooine. Also, how the hell did these people get into that audience? What an excellent program - Paul McCartney explaining some of his magic!
En el album Rushes aparece ese sonido con el que juega antes de mostrar lo de Strawberry Field, siempre me había intrigado, no tenía idea que provenía del Mellotron...
He could have at least MENTIONED his friend Mike Pinder and all the great songs the Moodies used it on. They really weren't direct competitors or rivals.
burlingtonbill1 real..show your friends that you and me.. belong to the same world, turned on to the same world..have you heard.. aw Paul you should have said something about Mike!
Mike had all sorts of problems with the melotron, I think even Justin mentioned it but it was amasing for its day and John used it on Strawberry Fields when Mike gave him a listen.
It was indeed Mike Pinder who introduced the Beatles to the Mellotron. And the original lineup to the Moody blues were an opening act for the Beatles. In fact, there is a photo of both bands all sitting around at the table during some kind of party or reception. And I believe Ray Thomas and Mike appeared on I am the walrus.
It's a weird phenomenon : John said in one of his songs : "those freaks was right when they said you were dead" ; Paul's reaction to the countdown in "A Day In The Life" as being "too weird for Me" . BUT, Paul CREATED some of THE MOST weird and beautiful melodies ideas of all time: "A Fool On The Hill", etc, so there is this Paradox of him being weird and cool and strange, but NOT wanting to be seen as 'loony" !! Weird, huh ?! PAUL IS DEFINITELY ALIVE !!!
the mellotron was NOT a sampler. you could not stick what would most likely have a great tube mic in front of Dionne Warwick and in a few moves have her voice in 3 octaves. it wasn't a synthesizer either. it was quite simply a tape player. all those parts that made it a jumped up 8 track tape player are obvious. of coarse you could order or even have made ones own special recordings. again like buying an 8 track or RtR which were still popular back then. that being said, I can always tell when I'm listening to one of its sounds. I don't know if it's the mics preamps or what but I have Caustic 3.xx on an Android slate and the flutes,horns and such all have that wonderful slightly compressed,out of nowhere sound this most cool device has. I still rather have the mellotron though. forgive me Brits,anglophiles,and Sir Paul fans. I've always got a whiff of jerk lounge lizardy past retirement from his Lordship
man, would've loved to have recordings of the Beatles trying to each sing the songs. Like a good version of John on "O Darling", or even Ringo doing "Blue Jay Way".
I get the feeling he could walk on stage, fart, and the audience would burst into a 5 minute standing ovation.
I didn't see any standing ovations for him singing and playing here. And by the way, applause comes at the end of stage performances. Its earned. Especially from people paying to be entertained. I feel like you're a spam-posting shill probably getting paid by someone to post brown-nosing blather that will get "likes" because someone thinks likes + views = "revenue" from UA-cam.
DEEREMEYER1 I feel like he were trying to make a joke mate.
Paul McCartney has never farted
Paul can fart a melody you wouldn't believe.
It's certainly worth a shot!
Paul looks like Han Solo
Sam George The force is strong with this one....
The vest perhaps?
How is it possible that he sounds absolutely identical, can play all instruments and parts of the original Paul, is left-handed, and bares a an exact resemblance to the original Paul? My guess that.... IT"S PAUL!
Was this video a bit glitchy for some people?
+abby caceres Yes
It was glitchy when I tried downloading it from torrents over a decade ago, I'm guessing the same file.
It's because Heather Mills is in it, her witchcraft interferes!
google glitched it right when paul was about to say queer....to protect the delicate gender ambiguous snowflakes from being offended in case pepsi but in ad around this vid
Bastille First of all hun, it glitched a shitton in that section, not just at that word. Second of all, that's not how Google/UA-cam works
From Strawberry Fields to Nights in White Satin (Moody Blues) to especially Watcher of the Skies (Genesis). Man this really said The Beatles and Prog Rock in a nutshell. Excellent instrument!!
+Matthew Laskorski How about King Crimson 'Court of the Crimson King'? I think they burned up a Mellotron on that one!
or two
Steve O, funnily, they actually burned up the very same Mellotron that Genesis used later.
"The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill" features the mellotron. It opens with a spanish guitar sound, then enters into a mandolin during the verses. It closes the piece on a trombone sound.
I would drain out of my life's savings ($100) to see this show...
Heh... heh.
If anyone's wondering, the samples Paul's using for the first tune is AfroCuban SlowPiano UL_RyFi Mellotron MKII, which can be downloaded for the Nord series of synthesizers.
What's with all of the horrible jerky cuts?
I di nt ear an uts..
No ,Genesis.
its all a question of balance,watcher of the skies and cinema show
It was this way over a decade ago, I think it's the same file that was torrented back then, just a bad rip.
@@Jellybeantiger Genesis was amazing but Mike Pinder ruled.
2:30 What a beautiful and nostalgic melody
Strawberry Fields, definitely one of the high points for the mellotron
this is like a bad acid trip.
H.J.W seriously? Why?
Think your wrong,would be a great acid trip,haven’t done that shit in ages.
H.J.W sure .
Mike Pinder of The Moody Blues introduced the mellotron to the beatles in 1966. The Moody Blues used the mellotron on stage and on their records throughout the sixties and seventies.
The last part were Paul does strawberry fields intro was so beautiful. I haven't heard anything as wonderful and peaceful as that. When he played that I felt like the Beatles were still together...
That song he improvises with the Mellotron presets around 0:55 must be what the Beatles did back in the 60s in the studio for fun. It probably was hilarious with all of them improvising songs,all stoned. However,in 2005, the joke just doesn't work.And Macca just kept repeating it for cameras (I have a 1997 video with the same joke).
The Mellotron is an amazing instrument. 50 plus years after it was invented, with all the synths, plug ins, computers that appeared in the meantime, it still has some of the best sounds I've ever heard: the brass, the choirs, the violins, just fill a a song mix in a way no other instrument can.
True. This is not the best advertisement for the instrument, except, as I've already said, at the end of the clip. Paul's showing off is rather painful to watch.
Can't stand when Macca does this, retrospective (YET IMPORTANT) stuff that happened almost 60 years ago, and it sounds like he's over exaggerating for the cameras. I can picture John Lennon telling the same story in about 20 seconds....oh the Mellotron, those damn tapes inside use to break all the time you know!! Yoko threw mine out you know!!
Dylan Porper What I meant was that The Beatles did what he does here back in the 60s, not that the Beatles recorded the Mellotron presets, obviously.
Can I see the 1997?
Khayyam1048 I guess if your Paul McCartney,former beatle,you should be able to show off a little,even though he wasn’t “showing off”,what a stupid statement,some of you should focus your judgmental little microscopes you look at him through.
SO cool. I read that in one of the magazines of tape loops - I think it was the pre-recorded cello sound or something like that - you could hear the scraping of a chair that picked up on the recording of one of the notes. Pretty funny in a retro sort of way :)
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1:37 so that's where the Minecraft disc comes from
I'm still trying to track down the original tape sample
You're all a bunch of hosers, right? Because, it's actually a GREAT revealing bit of video. I learned that tape loops in the true rhythmic sense started here. Before I thought sustain would utilize tape activity. it was Strawberry Fields for me, and what a sound that was!
King crimson used it to great affect.
And Tony banks
It's Mellotron Flutes. You can get pretty good samples of it from either Nord keyboards or Native Instruments Kontakt.
WOW!!! that device is awesome!!! It's kinda like a vintage looper or something!!! They had all the great gadgets in the 60s!
Each key is connected to a length of magnetic tape. Part of the instrument has rhythm recordings and the other part has solo instruments. Pressing a key engages a drive mechanism and letting it up allows a spring to quickly yank the tape back into ready position. The whole tape frame is replaceable so you can change to a different bank of sounds. Quite a gadget!
RaineStudio Yeah I always have known about the instrument but never knew how it worked. As soon as i saw this video I watched several UA-cam videos on how they work. I wonder if you can still get new tape cartridges for these devices? I'm sure someone out there could make new ones...I also learned that you had a choice of different tape cartridges you could use for different sounds...
see Nights in White Satin and the who Seventh Sojourn album, love it!
ofinvarra
Its up to us the current generation to pass the torch and teach the next generation about good music. The magic of The Beatles will live on.
Fun stuff! I'm sure he meant to say the Mellotron was the forerunner of the "sampler", not the "synthesizer" though. ;-)
John L Rice Yeah. I forgive him because I used to do the same thing.
I love paul mccartney forever . 💖💖💖💖💟💞💝💘❤
what type of mellotron is that and what tape loop is he playing that sounds like a 50s bar band i thought the mellotron was maybe a mk1 chamberlin but i dont think so idk
wow! what a treat! thanks Paul!
One of the first synthesizers in the world. When I was a kid, I thought the harmonica was the first synthesizer in the world and I also thought it was a synthesizer. Then I learned it was not a synthesizer.
Well, you know how much easier it is to sit in one's vaunted critic's chair and tear down people. Praise and accolades to others ultimately come at the price of one's pride/ego/jealousy, God forbid! Good for you for taking the high road and chuckling about it all.
more a forerunner of the sampler, there were synthesizers a long time before this
Kudos to *Moody-Blues* & Mike Pinder~~~RIP Mike, Died-Yesterday @ 82yrs~~~Enjoy the Heavenly^^^Music
How to sample records back in the 60's
0:13 The Mellotron is really a forerunner of the sampler, and would inspire instruments like the Birotron (until that instrument fell off the face of the earth) and the Fairlight CMI of the 80s. I'd say the true forerunner of the synthesizer is the Hammond Novachord, or perhaps the Telharmonium even further back.
2:08 Fun fact: C418 also sampled this very section for his song "Stal" from Minecraft! If you listen to the C418 version, the riff appears at the 1:30 mark in this video ua-cam.com/video/0E5l2GHBxB8/v-deo.html. I like to think he watched this very video in 2011 when he was developing the album for the game and enjoyed it enough to feature a part of it in his music.
That machine did not have those tapes in it originally. Thats a sound effects model. It would have had things like gun shots and other weird stuff on the tapes. This is indicated by it being grey. A lot of them were converted to normal tapes. The home use ones had the drums etc on the left and the strings, flutes and brass on the right. Most rock musicians stripped out the rythm ones and replaced them with duplicate right hand tapes so they could play longer than 8 seconds.
The best thing about Old Paul is that he will help you laugh at him, just because he wants you to have a good time. ...If you like this and you have not heard You Know My Name (Look Up The Number), which was originally a B-side (I think of Get Back), listen to it for more awesome Beatles comedy.
Don't worry they know, they know...the music delivers the message,
it speaks for them, now and forever.
Used to have a mellotron. Loved it...when it worked and wasn't in for repairs :-)
Paul McCartney doing an impression of himself at 2:10?
Homero Elizondo ...no
Yes.
This is from Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road, from the Great Performance series on PBS. Enjoy!
Odd Prime maccasshole
Woooow!....Heard strawberry fields so many times before and never knew what instruments they used...melotron...
anyone play minecraft? is that freaking stal at 1:50 omgomgomg how did c418 get that sample omgzzzz
exactly what I was thinking, I guess he used a mellotron
@@GlacialLake yep. actually, it's not *quite* the same sample, but very well could be from the same song. who knows? maybe someone should ask c4
@@princetbug I actually recall sending him a message on his website back when I made this comment. I asked him something about his use of the mellotron, can't remember precisely what it was. I know that he never responded.
@@GlacialLake well that's a shame. either way there's no mistaking the similarities
@@GlacialLake its entirely possible it's an edited version of this sample as well
Two legends together, sharing the stage.
..is that Fran & Dougie from Travis @ 2:49 ?
There are three Tron sounds (banks) used on Tuesday Afternoon: Cello, Three Violins, and Flute.
1:49 on the mellotron is the guitar riff from 'Bison', the album he did as the fireman. Not sure if they sampled that or just re-played it.
can someone please tell me what song paul is sampling from. ive heard it many times
Only similar thing I know is stall, by C418
I have to chuckle at the negative comments...the criticism.... The man is a musical workhorse and genius. The other half of the greatest songwriting team of the past several hundred years.... and yet people talk shit.... Question - What have YOU done? Where are your Gold/Platinum/Diamond records? Where is your $500 million in the bank? Where the your crowds that will follow you literally anywhere you play? Thought so........ It's not all about the money, it's about respect.
Angela Lansbury? Lookin' Great! and so talented and funny!
Gotta love these super analogue samplers, must have been so much fun to use back then. I know John Lennon and Brian Wilson loved them and the Chamberlain.
Sir Paul McCartney and a Mellotron on Strawberry Fields Forever. Indeed!
I don't think they'll be forgotten. they will be the 20th century's gift to posterity.
Thank you Marvellous Paul !
didier d'agostino marvellous asshole
Analog forever! I play electronic organs and love them. They were awesome instruments and still are. Find one on Craigslist for next to nothing. That's the fun part. The sad part is that in the organ community there are 3 schools- classical, theater, and Hammond B3, they are digitizing pipe organs and B3's, but NOBODY is digitizing the electronic theater organs and electronic classical organs. Stupid pipe purists have always said 'electronic organs are inferior imitations of pipes'. Not true!
Okay, I'm crying again, LOL! It terrifies me that this stuff will be lost forever...The Beatles will only be recognized as a great rock and roll group and that's it. I'm worried that the younger generations will never realize what innovators the Beatles were and that music would never sound the way it does today without their influence! It's history, man! Blows my mind and touches me so deeply I tear up everytime I hear the creativity...
2:29 goosebumps 😥😭
Any rock songs from the 70's with church choir on it? Mellotron. Everybody who was anybody played them at some point.
Paul was in town last week (Québec city).
He sang John's Mr Kite with gusto.
Robert Laberge asshole was in town hahahahaha
A dream come true!
I believe all individual Beatles should be allowed to sing a Beatle song if they wish to, with unexpected and surprising results.
What people should remember it was ahead of its time then and bought by many many top artistes. Unfortunately they chose to use a tape format rather develop it further (digitally) so it quickly went out of fashion. It was also bought by the BBC in a sound effects format. You could play notes from practically any instruments using the keyboard and a vast array of rhythms and Chords at whatever speed you wished. It could sound like a complete band or group and be operated by one person. As a kid I had great fun playing it in Dads office while he did the paperwork as he was the salesman for the small company formed by Bandleader Eric Robinson and David Nixon a TV magician to market it. Hugh Melville
The unions hated it. Tried to charge union rate for every musical instrument on it. Really got them upset, and they likely played a large part in it's demise.
They definitely didn't significantly contribute to it's demise. Mike Pinder demonstrated how he was using it with lead samples on both sides, and they generally accepted it as a keyboard instrument, after that. Polyphonic synths and digital samplers did, years later, though.
Guitar, drums and fill... how did they compose that for each key?
I was wondering how you do a full keyboard slide from C major to G minor. Then I realized that you turn it into a minor 7th by sliding to Bb without the without the bottom note.
Never gets old
0:54 name of song?
Thanks a lot. Isn't it grand?
Excellent video, excellent Mellotron madness!
Thanks for the tip!
Now, will Ringo ever do Love Me Do in concert?
Wouldn't it be fab?
Thanks rkl17. I couldn't have said it better myself
Thanks for ulpoad this! I think the first sampler.
he is having way too much fun :)
Did we really need to see reaction shots of the zilches in the audience bopping their heads? Fire the director. It's a concert, not the X Factor. You focus on the artist.
You focus on the art, not the artist.
chills.....
The mellotron was the first digital synthesizer.
The Mellotron was neither digital nor a synthesizer. Their sound comes from tape. That's as analog as it gets. Despite PM's comment on the video, it was a sampler, not a synth. He did use the word "precursor," but "precursor to digital samplers" is more accurate.
And it wasn't even a sampler, actually. It was a sample player. You could not sample with the mellotron. The "samples" (tape recordings) were recorded in advance and one installed the tape frames containing the "instruments"
i LOVE YOU PAUL MCCARTNEY
Incredible !
didier d'agostino incredible asshole
That keyboard sound that I'm hearing on The Moody Blues "Tuesday Afternoon" is a Tron ?
Yes
What is the name of this song?
Did they film this with a mellotron too?
Agreed - also some of the audience members look like they'd fit right in at that bar on Tatooine.
Also, how the hell did these people get into that audience? What an excellent program - Paul McCartney explaining some of his magic!
as it is called the song that sings to the minute 1:03?!?!?!? Help meee!!!!!!!!!!!!
En el album Rushes aparece ese sonido con el que juega antes de mostrar lo de Strawberry Field, siempre me había intrigado, no tenía idea que provenía del Mellotron...
where can i find what happens after this video stop,
most charming guy on the planet
When they wrote "Let me take you down..." he was talking about the pitch of the Mellotron.
Man, where the hell have you been?
Rick Wakeman got so pissed off at the Mellotron's unreliability that he set fire to his !
Can Anyone tell me the name of the preset hes using?
what is the name of that show?
He could have at least MENTIONED his friend Mike Pinder and all the great songs the Moodies used it on. They really weren't direct competitors or rivals.
burlingtonbill1 real..show your friends that you and me.. belong to the same world, turned on to the same world..have you heard.. aw Paul you should have said something about Mike!
And it was Mike Pinder who turned The Beatles on to the mellotron.
+ofinvarra huh?
Mike had all sorts of problems with the melotron, I think even Justin mentioned it but it was amasing for its day and John used it on Strawberry Fields when Mike gave him a listen.
It was indeed Mike Pinder who introduced the Beatles to the Mellotron.
And the original lineup to the Moody blues were an opening act for the Beatles. In fact, there is a photo of both bands all sitting around at the table during some kind of party or reception.
And I believe Ray Thomas and Mike appeared on I am the walrus.
It's a weird phenomenon : John said in one of his songs : "those freaks was right when they said you were dead" ; Paul's reaction to the countdown in "A Day In The Life" as being "too weird for Me" . BUT, Paul CREATED some of THE MOST weird and beautiful melodies ideas of all time: "A Fool On The Hill", etc, so there is this Paradox of him being weird and cool and strange, but NOT wanting to be seen as 'loony" !! Weird, huh ?! PAUL IS DEFINITELY ALIVE !!!
it was the first sampler
the mellotron was NOT a sampler. you could not stick what would most likely have a great tube mic in front of Dionne Warwick and in a few moves have her voice in 3 octaves. it wasn't a synthesizer either. it was quite simply a tape player. all those parts that made it a jumped up 8 track tape player are obvious. of coarse you could order or even have made ones own special recordings. again like buying an 8 track or RtR which were still popular back then. that being said, I can always tell when I'm listening to one of its sounds. I don't know if it's the mics preamps or what but I have Caustic 3.xx on an Android slate and the flutes,horns and such all have that wonderful slightly compressed,out of nowhere sound this most cool device has. I still rather have the mellotron though. forgive me Brits,anglophiles,and Sir Paul fans. I've always got a whiff of jerk lounge lizardy past retirement from his Lordship
@ozoshah Haha, no worries man...I'm not sure why I put that either =P
Paul McCartney is a vampire. He planted a zombie seed in the whole world's minds with his music.
a zombie seed?
Alex Duarte macca is an asshole.
I enjoyed the video. It was skipping segments but cool to see.
I'm going to miss you, Harrison. Hopefully, this UA-cam novelty account and your records will suffice until I'm dead.
0:55 STAL?
man, would've loved to have recordings of the Beatles trying to each sing the songs.
Like a good version of John on "O Darling", or even Ringo doing "Blue Jay Way".
Was clicking around for beatles songs
ACCIDENTALLY LEARNING