Various Artists Compilation 1 Disc 1 - 78.33 1 Intro / Tuning 1.50 CannedHeat: 70-May-30 2 Reefer Blues 3.48 3 Future Blues 8.03 4 "New" Refried Boogie 16.30 (8.50-13.52 drum solo) 5 I Talk To The Wind 6.10 Crimson: 69-Sept-7 6 ..The Crimson King 7.04 7 Mayonaise 4.28 Smashing Pumpkins: 1993 8 Spaceboy 3.57 9 Infinite Sadness 3.45 10 That Song About The Midway 5.07 B Raitt: 88-Mar-5 11 Angel From Montgomery 5.22 12 I Can't Make You Love Me 6.40 B Raitt: 98-Nov-11 13 Angel From Montgomery 5.42 ************************************************************* Canned Heat: 70-May-30 Kickapoo Creek Festival - Heyworth, IL 'The Real Future Blues' LP Bootleg (30.16min) 1st gen cassette copy from the vinyl bootleg > CDwave > Flac Bob Hite Vocals, Harp Alan Wilson Guitar, Harp Henry Vestine Guitar Fito de la Parra Drums Adolfo de la Barreda Bass King Crimson: 69-Sept-7 Victoria Ballroom * - Chesterfield, England Robert Fripp Guitar Michael Giles Drums Greg Lake Bass, Vocals Ian McDonald Mellotron, Flute, Vocals Pete Sinfield Words & Illuminations * also listed as Chesterfield Jazz Club Smashing Pumpkins: Mashed Potatoes (5 disc set) These 3 tracks are all 1993 outtakes Bonnie Raitt: 88-Mar-5 Rockefeller's - Houston, TX Bonnie Raitt Guitar, Vocals Johnny Lee Shell Bass, Guitar, Vocals Bonnie Raitt: 98-Nov-11 Shepherd's Bush Empire - London, England Bonnie Raitt Guitar, Vocals Rick Vito Guitar, Vocals Jon Cleary Keyboards Phil Cunningham Accordeon Question: Why did Crimson use the mellotron so much in in its work? The band kind of popularized it, didn't it? FRIPP: I own six of them, five of which belong to King Crimson. I have two of the original double-manual mellotrons and two mellotrons from the '72/'74 Crimson. The Moody Blues also used mellotrons. I think Crimson used it in more abberant forms than previous users. By the time that Crimson ceased using them in September '74, you didn't have viable synthesizers. There was an impressionistic possibility from strings and flutes and brass that you couldn't get from a guitar, though you now can. The supposed mellotron use on Thrak is Adrian on my guitar synthesizer with some mellotron use as a homeopathic link from the past. There is a version of "I Talk To The Wind" from the Chesterfield Jazz Club (not on Epitath) which was a 'bad hair night' for the mellotron. If it was a 'bad hair night' for the mellotron, which doesn't care anyway, it was AWFUL for the musician who had to play it. We had to make a decision; do we include this or not? Finally, we said no. Just to show how out of tune a mellotron can go while a musician is using it is not a reason to make it available throughout the world. At this point in the song, you can hear Greg Lake thinking 'do I pitch with the mellotron or the bass?' About a minute later, Greg has made up his mind- 'I'll go with the bass because it's closer to me.' However for the next two minutes, you can continue to hear Ian thinking 'shall I sing with the mellotron or with Greg while continuing to fine tune the pitch of the mellotron as the song begins?' This is 35-minutes into the gig, doing things we hadn't done at other gigs, just burning. Then our confidence is completely undermined. Their movement forward is brought to a halt by this AWFUL out of tune mellotron and the show never actually recovers from it, especially when the mellotron is used in any piece. DAVID ENTOVEN: There was another show where the mellotron was a semi-tone out of tune and this chord comes out that was delayed into the PA. The reason it went out of tune was because of the voltage so that if they played a loud chord, the mellotron went flat. Ian had to try to retune it as everyone else got quiet. FRIPP: This we discovered particularly in Amercia, particularly working at the Boston Tea Party. In England, you work on 240 (volts) which is more reliable than the United States with 110 and much more than Sicily which is at 85. We were playing "In The Court Of The Crimson King" and you heard D from the band and the tuned instruments, D flat from the mellotron strings and the voices horribly in between. We finally bought a voltage stabilizer after all of this.