Mellodrama

 

If you’re more than 35 and own a couple of Yes or King Crimson records, it would be enough to tell you that this is a documentary about the Mellotron. Sit back and enjoy.

To the rest: let’s see, kids! There was a time when keyboards weren’t digital and samplers and Pro Tools did not exist. The great rock keyboard players, like Rick Wakeman, played submerged in a mountain of machines that produced a buzzing by then considered futurist: the Minimoog, the Hammond organ, and also the Mellot [...]

Duration

75 min

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