MELLODRAMA: Mellotron/Chamberlin Documentary Trailer

[KimboLacool]

Two great bands to listen to that made great use of the Mellotron are Pavlovs Dog and a brilliant Kiwi band from the 70's called Ragnarok.

[UltimateVenom]

mellotrons sound so beautiful, they make me want to cry.

[DieselProductions11]

1:48 Patrick Moraz-Yes/Moody Blues Keyboardist

[CaptainSiberia]

5 stars!

[wildbilltexas]

Sounds cool. What was the last song playing at the fade?

[bitchazzmothafuckaz]

Ugh, thumbs DOWN for Kanghey West...but it does look like a cool documentary though.

[willveda]

@bitchazzmothafuckaz I agree! That no-talent piece of crap has no right being mentioned in anything to do with Mellotrons/Chamberlins. What the bloody hell?!

[towardstheshadows]

does anyone know where i can download mellotron patches specifically for mixcraft

[USAGlobalVideoCorp]

If you want to hear the best use of M strings, hear King Crimson song: "In The Wake Of Poseidon" 1970 E.G. Music.

The way a Mellotron is produced or recorded was as important as it's stand alone sound. The Moody Blues, King Crimson, and Genesis would bring up the reverb just over the long notes, also consequently raising the volume to a crescendo. Blending two or more tracks was also done for a stereo and fuller sound. Best program sample: Reason.

[instantdogma]

"Tuning a Mellotron doesn't." Robert Fripp

[MellotronMovie]

This is an original by Mattias Olsson or Roth Handle studio, he and Brian Kehew made us a bunch of great songs for the film.

[daslasdf]

The same Mattias Olsson from Anglagard?

[MellotronMovie]

@daslasdf Yes, that's Mattias from Anglagard.

[F0nkyNinja]

@MellotronMovie

Änglagård?

[trylonperisphere]

Looks awesome! Will this be available on netfilx? Thanks.

[MellotronMovie]

Maybe at the end of the year. For now it is available on DVD at Mellodramadvd (dot) com.

[MellotronMovie]

Mellodramadvd (dot) com

[MellotronMovie]

Mellodrama, the Mellotron Movie, DVDs now available on presale at Bazillion Points...

[OFR]

I saw a festival screening of this movie. It's great, a nice coverage of the Chamberlin - into - Mellotron story. Of course, you cannot cover what everyone wants to see (costs, people refusing to be in it, relevance) but they told the historical story completely and well.

[meesalikeu]

dont forget to interview david sancious. he rolled out a haunting classic mellotron sound on bruce springsteen's 'nyc serenade.' easily the bosses most creative era.

[samueladams7]

I really love those old Mellotron sounds!

Q: Does anyone know who was the FIRST to develop digital sampling?

A: It was ALLEN organs(in collaboration with North American Rockwell in the 1960's". So, we can thank an organ manufacturer for today's digital keyboards!

[stereoroid]

Note however that the first commercial sampler (i.e. a product musicians could buy) was Australian: the Fairlight CMI. It cost as much as a small house.

[Madmanmeister]

This is GOLD! But don't forget the master of progressive rock Mellotron player... TONY BANKS!! Just listen ENTANGLED or the intro from WATCHER OF THE SKIES...

[MellotronMovie]

We actually just interviewed Tony Banks this month and he will be included in the feature DVD release coming this winter.

[Madmanmeister]

Really?? God, awesome!!! congratulations for this magnificent job...!!! and thanks for add Tony too! :D

[MellotronMovie]

Thanks for your interest! The film will be available on DVD at the end of 2009...Check back for more details.

[dbadagna]

Could the uploader please add details in the video description about the release date and any other news about when and where this film will show (and when the DVD will be available)?

[MellotronMovie]

The film will be available on DVD at the end of 2009. Check back for more details...

[Bassnoob21]

MIKAEL AKERFELDT!!!

[Organgrinder010]

This was fantastic!

[Martianfan]

MOOOOOODY BLUUUUES!

[slickluw88]

where can you get this full video

[RyuDarragh]

It was a blast! :) Imagine having a board full of 1K EPROMs that cost close to $3000 and held about 200KB of data (o.o) The KB itself was from an electronic organ. That ran to a muxer that scanned it and output the keypress data to the microprocessor. That in turn buffered the data from the EPROMs into playback RAM and off it went. The D/As were handmade. First sound that came out of it was a sampled fart so realistic people nearby were wrinkling their noses in dusgust :D

[kdito]

Lol at Brian Wilson attempting to play "California Girls"on the mellotron at 1:37

[MellotronMovie]

Showing at the Buenos Aires Film Festival at the end of March

[RyuDarragh]

In the 70's I made one of the first digital versions of the Mellotron. It used RAM and ROM and was not as easy to load music into it. But, oh, man! Then we got a floppy to load the music samples into RAM and the 8080 processor to make it work.. and wound up with a nice reliable, but 10 times the cost version. :P

[OmenieSoftware]

Man, my heart bleeds for you! I didn't try computer music until the mid-80s when CPUs (or at least the ones I was using!) were much quicker. Amazing that we can now fit the same functionality plus cool 3D user interface into a phone!

[Philm35]

Definitely looking forward to seeing this... But you can't talk about Mellotron without including Rick Wakeman and Tony Banks!

[ProgFrog635]

This movie looks awesome, and it even has Mikael in it ;)

[SephynnXx]

Mikael says all the sounds are out of a horror movie,lol. Yeah maybe when he uses it,lol. The man is a genius....

[schweinnoisu]

I'm absolutely in love with this trailer...I can't wait until the DVD is ready, I'll put in a pre-order for it!

[misterbruno]

I need to see this documentary!!

[joemgeek]

Looks great...writing as a Beach Boys nut though I can't think of a time they ever used one?- which would make Brian Wilson's appearing a bit pointless- can anyone jog my memory?

[MellotronMovie]

Yeah, the Beach Boys aren't the most associated with the Mellotron, like say King Crimson or the Moody Blues, but Brian Wilson did own a Chamberlin back in the day. They used it on Wild Honey and Sunflower.

[MellotronMovie]

Premiering this Sunday night!

Big Sky Film Festival

Missoula, MT

Wilma Theatre

Sunday 2/15, 11:55pm

[mikeschmid]

This looks awesome. Great to see Jon Brion here!

[MellotronMovie]

Stay tuned for film festival screening dates and a DVD release this Fall.

[SteveH925]

Wonderful, put my order in for one now!

[bloggybloggerson]

MUST... OWN... DVD... right up there with Moog... Any news on DVD release? In, um, Canada?

[ambulantic]

wow, this looks awesome!

[norealpain]

yeeeeaaah! this looks incredible! i had NO idea what one of these was.

[Daburcor]

Awesome! I can't wait to see this. I want a mellotron so badly...

[Alhuck]

OMG this looks great! can't wait to see it!

[taijiguy]

Wow, this looks very cool! I hope the new Streetly M4000 will be featured prominently.

[swaddlingsongs]

Great, can't wait to see it. Awesome that you pulled it off. And looking forward to see Markus' insightfull comments, he did a great job restoring my m400.

[MellotronMovie]

It's coming soon. Markus is in the movie plenty, the trailer is just a little snippet.

[morland1966]

Sweet! Looks great, Di. Put it out there, already. Where's Resch?

[OFR]

Looks damn good...! Cannot wait...