The Mellotron: Famous Songs!
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2018
- Here are some of the songs that made the Mellotron famous! Watch Dom in action as he performs the Beatle's famous intro of Strawberry Fields Forever.
If you haven't already check our other video about the Mellotron:
• The Mellotron In Action
Songs Played In The Video:
2:26 Strawberry Fields Forever - The Beatles
3:19 Space Oddity - David Bowie
4:07 Cryptorchid - Marilyn Manson
5:02 Gangsta's Paradise - Coolio
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That warbly, distorted sounds is what makes the mellotron one of my favorite instruments. I love how creepy it can sound.
Strawberry Fields Forever... What an amazing song...
Giorgio Grano the intro
Let me take you down cause im going to Strawberry Fields
No !
The … ellipses … really make you sound … zoned out :)
Masterpiece
I don’t care what anyone says... that circle of fifths improvisation at 4:43 was the best part of the video.
What did he played?
@@osacagatos4179 Yeah, was that an existing song? Because I loved it!
It sounded like a Tally Hall song!
@@hannahl.9614 do you have any idea what the title of the song is?
@@andikris4685 My Mind Electric
Mellotron famous songs:
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
Strawberry Fields Forever
...... Space Oddity - David Bowie is even better imo
Megan Jones David Bowie is better than The Beatles?
@@recemarkou3223 where did I say that David Bowie is simply better than the Beatles? they are both iconic and probably the best artists to walk this earth! but you were eluding to the fact that the only famous mellotron song is strawberry fields forever (which of course is incredible) but I disagree with this! imo the use of the mellotron on space oddity is even more iconic than strawberry fields forever. That's the beauty of music different people hear different things!
Megan Jones oh sorry i misread your comment (hence the question mark), but I’d have to disagree anyway i vaguely remember the mellotron in Space Oddity (a great song though)... imo
Bowie was inspired to use it because of The Beatles which is awesome, I think that's why I like the way he uses it, because he pushes it into a more modern sound especially with the experimental song structure and lift off sounds etc in the song
You can't say Progressive Rock without Mellotron.
progressive rock without mellotron
@@harley-zh3jk oof
I grew up half a mile from the mellotron workshop (you couldn't call it a factory!) In Aldridge,Walsall. An honour!!!
Progressive rock without mellotron, which was made at the factory in Aldridge, Walsall
Not without the Hammond organ either
I’m a drummer and my favorite instrument is the mellotron. King Crimsons “in the wake of Poseidon” is the song that always comes to mind when I think of the mellotron.
I actually met a guy down here in Texas who had a functioning mello and he showed me the wild ass tape loop set up and played it for me, it was genuinely magical.
I can’t think of a more organic, warm, earthy, almost angelic choir sounding instrument than the Mellotron.
i was looking for a king crimson mention, but don't forget I talk to the wind. Whenever i find something with a mellotron tone on it i play that and Strawberry fields lmao
I was introduced to the Mellotron as a kid in the 60's when Nights In White Satin came out in 1967. Was hooked forever on the way Mike Pinder of the The Moody Blues made that instrument absolutely magical.
The Moodies captured the capabilities of so many electronic instruments in ways never imagined by the inventors.
Can't believe he didn't mention the Moody Blues.
Also weird that King Crimson isn’t on here either :(
2:26 Strawberry Fields Forever
"Strawberry Fields Forever" is truly my favorite Beatles track thanks to the Mellotron. I have a book about this famous sampler keyboard that made music history by introducing "underground" music.
Shame he didn't play it right...
Mr. Kite for me
Every time i hear that sound i get sentimental
He played it wrong though
There’s a video of actual McCartney playing the same thing on CZcams. It’s a 10 second clip. He even stars singing
What an absolutely gorgeous instrument, it's actually incredible that something like this exists.
3:27 Im wearing open back headphones and this whistle sounded too real...didnt expect it andscared the shit outta me.
Paper The Producer me too
Dude! I looked over to my left like “who’s in my room”! Lol
Same here, I almost jumped from bed because someone's whistling behind me lol
Same here!! :-O
my god. I Jumped so hard on that one. Actually thought someone was there whistling behind me. HELL MY DOOR IS OPEN *HEARTBEATS FAST BRUH*
I love the sound of mellotrons. They still sound really cool in a retro steampunk way. When it comes to mellotron pieces, Watcher of the Skies and In the Court of the Crimson King have got to be the best use of a mellotron ever. Tony Banks in particular could come up with great mellotron parts. Very cool.
Fly On A Windshield
Not Heath Robinson, but Eric Robinson (and David Nixon)...! 😃
Video on Mellotron without mentioning King Crimson and Moody Blues?
Yeah!!! And Michael Pinder is the Mellotron god.
Larks' Tongues In Aspic
I know!!! 😒😒😒😒
The recorders intro of Stairway To Heaven.
And no mention of one person who used it tons:
Brian Jones.
or Genesis
The Mellotron on "Space Oddity" was played by Rick Wakeman.
He fairly recently ceremoniously took his 'Tron out into a field and set it alight.
The are both the most hideously monstrous and unreliable Heath Robinson contraption ever invented on the face of the earth, but equally one of the most sublime, beautiful and distinctive instruments ever built.
Isn't that just how it be
I just wonder why he would do that instead of selling it to a serious collector or donating it to a museum.
@@zachhaywood1564 Because at the time they weren't highly regarded, and he was just sick of it.
@@TryptychUK Do you know when exactly this was? I'm a big Yes fan, so I'm always eager to know more about the members' individual careers.
@@zachhaywood1564 TBH, I am not exactly sure, but it would have been after he got all his Tron sounds sampled. I did something similar for Tony Banks. Probably late 80's at a guess.
With that 60s tech on the tape is has that distinct lo-fi sound to it. And when the tape fizzles out after holding it to the end could even be used on purpose.
Truly a wonderful instrument.
Genesis - Entangled is my all-time favorite use of it. I don't think any other songs, legendary as they are, come close.
Watcher of the Skies. Intros usually hit harder than outros, although if you call the long instrumental section that ends Cinema Show an outro, that is not the case.
"The scratching of a Mellotron, it always seemed to make her cry...
Well, maybe she remembers us collecting space up in the sky" Porcupine Tree
King Crimson's "In the court of the crimson king"! Mellotron festival! 😉
Being a piano tuner/technician I'm often called out to recording studios. One of my clients has one of these. It's an awesome instrument.
Mike Pinder and the mellotron were the heart and soul of the Moody Blues’ first several albums.
Two great mellotron songs - Led Zeppelin's "The Rain Song" and Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Tuesday's Gone" That instrument is a bonafide tone setter for those two classic tunes.
The Rain Song still remains the most beautiful usage of the mellotron ever in my opinion.
In the Court of the Crimson King and The Land of Make Believe are my two favorite Mellotron songs.
Nah, Strawberry Firlds is the best.
@@BluesCat1980 I actually forgot about that one, which is a good choice.
1:33 a cat died in the keyboard
definitely best comment here :D
Кошка застряла в трубе
Still alive I think, but in pain.
😂😂
@@mrstandfast2212 hope it's ok
This is my favorite “synth” ever, the sound is just so rich
this kitschy little instrument will always have a special place in my heart
3:26 I was a little scared :D
LOUD NOISES !!!
Hahahaha, me too, I even turned back to see if there was someone else in the room!
Holly crap it really felt like someone was cheering behind me.
thought my friends had came in the room saw me watching the video and for some reason started hootering and hollering behind me
I live alone, so that freaked the hell out of me!
I bought one of these in 1972. Probably one of the first in the US. When mine reached the end of the tape or tapes it just stopped and didn't make the horrible sounds this one makes. The only problem was you could be playing on stage and the motor speed could change and it would go out of tune. Good thing my pitch perception was good back then because I would turn the pitch knob and bring it back in tune while we played. I remember my band played In the Court of the Crimson King and In the Wake of Poseidon. I wish I could go back to those days.
I'm guessing temperature especially from lights and things on stage could cause even more issues
I think those bad sounds are due to generational loss like how a VHS tape loses image and sound quality over time.
Exactly, this unit needs a little TLC.
What was ur bands name?
I've read many reports that touring with a Mellotron was a nightmare. Every one sounded a little different, and if you could afford it, you would tour with one or more backups and used whichever sounded best on that particular day.
Adding to this, many of the more progressive bands would hack the living daylights out of their machines to make them do things like play the samples backwards, or use custom tape-loops.
Dude you can't forget the Moody Blues "Nights In White Satin". That and Strawberry Fields intro are by far the best. And Mike Pinder of the Moody's actually worked on Mellotrons at their factory before playing for the the Moody's. He could fix it when it broke down in concerts.
"Watcher of the Skies" Greatest mellotron solo ever. I did a cover of it on my channel. Also "And You and I", YES. That mellotron break is sacred!
Absolutely right
Watcher of the skies, in the court of the crimson king, stairway to heaven
😍😍
JRussoC yes, Genesis!!
Was thinking the same thing with Watcher,, Crimson King another great one.
@JRussoC YASSS!!
I really love “Seven Stones” also by Genesis. Incredible mellotron solo on that song just takes m away when I hear it.
oh my god that whistle applause at 3:30 sent me to the hospital with a cardiac arrest
I know, one second i was just chilling and admiring a gorgeous instrument and suddenly I hear a "WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEWW"
You're not alone. Was thinking about going to bed. Now I have too much adrenaline flowing to do so...
@ Same!, I am in a dark room with just the glow from the white CZcams background to light the room, I was wearing headphones and jumped because it felt like someone was cheering from behind my chair, and confused the ever living hell out of me while also scaring me lol
Yeah... I jumped at that too. Excellent stereo imaging.
Holy shit. I read this and still jumped.
You just need to know that that sound did not come from Coolio, it came from Stevie Wonder. Coolio sampled it. Stevie's song is "Pastime Paradise"
THANK YOU! It's a sad fact that there's a generation of listeners (and even musicians) who have no idea Stevie Wonder wrote this song. On the bright side: maybe some hip-hoppers got turned on to vintage Stevie by Coolio's sample.
2:18 “And I guess you probably know what I’m gonna play!”
*HERE IN THE GARDEN*
hey that flute sound is the sound in dababy's BOP
why are the lights pointed at the camera?
To light up the viewers room
They're backlights, they separate the subject from the background, as you can see on the sides of his face
What Emanuele Zamboni said, especially since you've got black clothes and black hair on a black background. He'd just be a floating face with two ghostly arms.
When you find a hole in the plot.
Because fucken rock lights!
In The Court Of The Crimson King?!?!?
Epitaph
And also "Starless".
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Watcher of the Skies- Genesis?
-JoJo or Dark Tower?-
As a Genesis-fan since 1972 I am the proud owner of a Mellotron M-400 with cello, flute and strings and a taperack with mixed choir, brass and strings. 😄
I'm jealous! Someday I'd love to own a real one, but I definitely can't afford one now.
So cool!
1:29 I quite like that effect, it can be used to abruptly end a song or something along those lines
When you started singing Space Oddity, I got a fright as the people suddenly cheering sound like they're just behind you and a little to the left when listening on headphones - which is where the door to my room is. It sounded like someone was actually there. So, excellent stereo imaging in your sound recording there, I must say.
Me too, 1 am in bed. Nearly shat myself!
@@paulshuttleworth6261 i really truly hope you didn't
In 1977 I watched a Genesis concert here in Brazil and was magnetized by the sound of Tony Banks keyboards, and the sound of Mellotron.
The moment he started playing SFF my finger automatically pressed like button.
A demonstration of Mellotron songs without including the Moody Blues? Criminal!
I didn’t know this instrument, now I’m in love with it
Watcher Of The Skies
The Fountain Of Salmacis
Silent Sorrow In Empty Boats
The Court Of The Crimson King
A little taste of the mellotron for you =D
And have I got a surprise for you; the Mel 9 effect pedal replicates these sounds from your guitar amp, and it also responds on your playing style. Go and try one. All of these sounds and 6 more can be played with that sound beauty.
@@ze_rubenator Somehow you managed to not mention Epitaph.
Lmao what the hell was up with that cheering? Felt like I was watching Eric Andre
It took me by surprise and made me jump
Hey Hannibal! This aint your mama's mellotron!
I looked around to see wtf was going on around me
Baron VonsFuden me to, I had headphones on, stoned in a quiet room, scared the crap out of me. Lol
Yea but without Hannibal
Thanks for playing Cryptorchid!!!!!
Why does everyone forget about Past Time Paradise by Stevie Wonder? It's always Gangsta's Paradise by Coolio instead
I didn't know it was sampled haha
EXACTLY!!! that was the beginning of the idiot generation we see today...that doesnt know anything that existed before the internet.
@@thatsthewayitis1 that's not true bro you're making a really big deal out of a god damm Stevie Wonder sample. I'm 13 and I know about a lot of shit before the Internet. You need to stop playing into stereotypes that most of the time are not true. I could call you a stupid old man that doesn't know anything about the internet or this generation and is too ignorant and lazy to try to learn anything beyond what you already know. Now that may or may not be true but I'm just giving into the stereotype you give off. Which as you can hopefully see isn't a very fun thing to see happen to you. All I'm trying to say is stop being such a cunt and assuming shit about a generation that you very obviously don't know anything about.
My old engilish teacher ounce said that to assume is to make an ass out of u and me, so please for the sake of evreyone in the world czcams.com/video/l60MnDJklnM/video.html
@@MichaelTurner856 did you just think you could tell me about the word 'assume!?" LOLOL
WOW!! Ive never HEARD that before!!! LOLOL
i rest my case. thank you for sharing! LOL
@@thatsthewayitis1 czcams.com/video/j5a0jTc9S10/video.html
you could also had played "Exit music for a film" with the last sound,very cool video,cheers!!!
And a lot of other bits from OK Computer
the very first riff on the album is doubled with mellotron cellos! it's subtle but you'll never unhear it
I was going to say the same!
That was the main reason I came to see this video
and the Moody Blues? Where are they? So many tracks with Mike Pinder on the Mellotron (normal: at that time, he had worked at the factory and helped build and improve that wonderful machine...!
Moodies had so many good tracks with the Mellotron.
@@moraine_view ; they're definitely the band that used it the most: In practically all tracks on their first 8 albums! (with Mike Pinder then Patrick Moraz). Crimson and Genesis follow suit but far behind.
it's my understanding that Pinder introduced The Beatles to it which pretty much set it on the road to being a popular pop and rock instrument.
@@martinpitts3861 : right, Pinder befriended many rock and pop musicians in the late 60s, and thus it did a lot promoting the Mellotron m
Exactly! Without Mike Pinder this video wouldn't exist!
The fact that you have to press hard the keys makes you wonder how awesome were Mike Pinder, Tony Banks and Ian McDonald to come up with those sounds
Seriously, I love experimenting with mellotrons, but every now and then it's like I'm finding my sense of wonder again and I can appreciate Strawberry fields forever for the amazing song it is...such a perfect use of the instrument
Rick Wakeman used the Mellotron with the Mini Moog to make some very iconic music both with Yes and his own recordings. He also made his own tapes which are still used today as samplings on the new, all electronic Memotron.
4:03 I applaud the reference to marilyn manson and trent reznor. I as well did not know that part was played on a mellotron
I love that song on antichrist album! I as well did not know it was a mellotron.
One of my favorite tracks on the record for sure!
I got goosebumps when he started playing it and sung along :) Its so awesome, it took me back when i listened mm quite a lot. The lyrics are also used in antichrist superstar.
I am from Zimbabwe , Live in South Africa now, back in Rhodesia, 1974 I owned a Music shop. I would buy and sell music instruments, guitars, wind, drums and amplifiers. Having an electronics back round, I built & repaired amplifiers , organs and sting instruments.
One day I received a call from the owner of an another music shop in the city , ( Salisbury ) asking if i f i could repair a mellotron that had been dropped while a touring band ( The Flames ) was off loading the instrument. I said sure, I would try , they brought it around . A two days later , I called them back , asked them to collect it . I had managed to repair and re-line the heads.
I was given an invitation to a live show by band.
One of the first LP's I bought was by the "Moody Blues " , Mike Pinder played the mellotron.
Although it was purely accidental incident that brought the mellotron to my shop , will always consider it a privilege to have been able to work on such a beautiful sounding instrument forty nine years ago.
As a matter of interest , Klemt, Watkens, and Dynacord , to name a few manufactured echo - reverb units that the used a tape with multiple heads to create echos.
And German electronic band Tangerine Dream had Mellotron featuring very heavily in their earlier albums, particularly Atem, Phaedra and Rubycon.
The mighty mellotron. I love when the engine struggles to spin at 01:35. :)
4:08 Cryptorchid by MM! Amazing! Well done guys not only your playing is phenomenal but you also know your stuff ;)
Introducing and explaining the Mellotron to a younger generation, and having the time of his life... I love it. Thanks for sharing.
The Mellotron is an absolutely fabulous instrument-that second voice you demonstrated is like the sound of nature itself
I'm loving these synth videos followed by famous songs and presets.
the mellotron always makes the player smile, on every video i watch lol,
cheers Doc great clip!
That's probably the reason the Moodys always made me smile...
I just found out about the Mellotron a couple months ago and I've been absolutely obsessed ever since. What a cool and beautiful instrument!!!
King Crimson and Moody Blues Loved the Mellotron
No video on the Mellotron is complete without The Moody Blues. Mike Pinder pioneered many of the sounds of the Mellotron
Mike pinder perfected it
Mike pinder started off with the Chamberlain then switched to the mellotron
Strawbs
Mike Pinder introduced McCartney and Lennon to the Mellotron and King Crimson used it because of Mike on the Moody Blues so you can imagine how important he is in this regard
@@eduardoalcala7628 And King Crimson used it to define a genre. But I guess they don't matter as much as 'that one Beatles song' does.
I only knew the Mellotron from Genesis's early years, I had no clue it had this kind of range.
WAT
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WATCHER OF ALL!
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@@ChadMojito DUDE, you're the last person I would ever expect on here
@@ChadMojito been following you pages for a good year and a half
@@anthouligan1907 very nice
Ive been looking for this video for freaking MONTHS now!
for some reason when i clicked this I was expecting harpeggi... but I was still thoroughly entertained - thank you
Thanks for
Opening up the box, never knew it was tape inside haha, how sick!
Great video, thanks! Mellotron is of the coolest things ever made. It reminds me more King Crimson than anything else! And not forgeting the Stairway to Heaven flute.
On stairway to heaven, JPJ played recorder, 4 parts. He only played the mellotron live.
Yup, and NO King Crimson songs, like _Starless_ ? wtf?
Great demo Doctor!! Thank you!
Excellent video! Thank you.
Cryptorchid was a lovely surprise! Such a super-creepy track 🖤
Don't forget Watcher Of The Skies, Stairway To Heaven and other songs that uses the Mellotron keyboard.
Stairway to heaven doesn't use it ( except live, but that doesn't count)
@@CurtisBooksMusic stairway intro played on the real recorder in the studio. But in The Rain Song, John Paul Jones played 'tron
Lots of songs on Wind And Wuthering, too. Tony Banks was an absolute master of the mellotron.
It’s such a pleasure to watch you guys really enjoying yourselves.
I'll never regret watching this one, I mean, his charisma is impressive.
That songs not actually by coolio. It’s actually by Stevie wonder and it’s called pasttime Paradise.
Thank you!
Yeah, but I'm pretty sure the chorus bit that's being played on the mellotron wasn't in the original Wonder track? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm not very familiar with the tune.
In Pasttime Paradise, It sounds like there an instrument playing the basic melody that's expanded into the larger, more featured chorus in Coolio's song (which he's playing on the mellotron). So basically everybody's right.
Stevie used a Yam GX1.
Joshua Efron I just assumed he sampled the song directly. Whatever, my main point was that the melody was written by him
I just found out about the Mellotron because Ben Folds used it on his "Way to Normal" album and wanted to know more about it. This video just put a huge smile on my face! Thank you for making my day!
Been coming back to this video for years. Love your energy man!
Apart from Crimson, Genesis, and others, Opeth uses a lot Mellotron. Since Damnation that they’re using mellotron, influenced by Steven Wilson. Check the chorus of To Rid The Disease, absolutely awesome trip.
Best keyboard ever ! Mellotron rules !
That is so amazingly awesome! Thank you for sharing this beautiful sound !
having much fun watching you have fun. Excellent !!
3:27 I was using earbuds, almost had a heart attack
If Trent was playing the mellotron, that means it was literally the exact same one used for SGT Pepper’s. He bought it from Yoko.
Not true. The one used on Sgt Pepper was a rental unit - long gone in the trash now. Trent had access to another one used by Lennon which was housed at the Record Plant where he was recording, and briefly used it. Trent never owned it.
The fallacy of Matt's statement has been proven. He is sentenced to become a youtuber for the next five years.
I like your profile pic Matt E. The Wall movie
paul mccartney owns the original mellotron from abbey road..
There is no mellotron on the Sgt. Pepper album.
Dude that was awesome!😃 thank you!
Such an enjoyable tone. It makes me think of sitting by the fire on a cold and rainy night, tucked in nice and cozy.
And for all these years i was mistaking this for violins.
The lead sound on OMD’s ‘Maid of Orleans’ is also a Mellotron (violins). Then there’s King Crimson’s ‘In the Court of the Crimson King’ and many Moody Blues tracks and... and...
The gift with all these instruments is making the best of them, and some including Dr. Mix are great at that!
this is amazing!
Definitely check out the Moody Blues if you get chance, some awesome Mellotron playing.
This is one of those products that makes one wonder how did they ever get it to work!
Love your total enthusiasm for playing these classics and showing a very interesting instrument.
that was beautiful!
Deliver Us from the Elements by XTC is a perfect example of what sounds the Mellotron can create
Tony Banks, master of the mellotron.
That thing gives me goosebumps on every sound I'm in love 😍
I saw someone point this instrument out about changes by ozzy and now I know all these iconic songs with it that I never would've known it wasn't a keyboard . Such a cool instrument
I'm watching this alone at night with headphones and the whistles and cheers and 3:28 scared the crap out of me
"Tuesday Afternoon" & "Night's in White Satin" - The Moody Blues, "Rain Song" & "Kashmir" - Led Zeppelin, "Daniel" - Elton John, "She's A Rainbow & "2000 Light Years from Home" - The Rolling Stones.
Great vid. Thank you
"Play happy birthday on the Mellotron and it will make you cry. Play anything else, and it will make you weep." ~Robert Fripp
I love the Mellotron since KRAFTWERK "Radioactivity" - It has such a mystical sound.