Subj : Tommy Roe
To : MIKE ROSS
From : BRETT MCCOY
Date : Wed Oct 18 2000 01:18 am
> "BRETT MCCOY" wrote to "MIKE ROSS" (17 Oct 00 04:38:38)
> --- on the topic of "Tommy Roe"
>
> BM> I think it was Robert Fripp of King Crimson who got the slick idea of
> BM> putting other sounds onto
> BM> the Mellotron besides violin sounds, i.e., Frippertronics.
>
> I thought that was for his guitar, by hanging a long loop of tape
> between 2 tape decks each recording s.o.s. over the other. I didn't know
> it was in the mellotron... Neat!
It may have been, but I thought I remember reading about him doing stuff on
the mellotron also.
And then there was Laurie Anderson who rigged up an electric violin with a
tape head in the
pickup, and put a strip of recording on the bow and played it that way...
