Watcher of the Skies, Opening Chords with the Mellotron M4000D
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- Watcher of the Skies, Opening Chords with the Mellotron M4000D, using a Korg O1W ProX for the left hand notes, Hammond XK3C direct for the Hammond. Music written by Tony Banks and Genesis, from the Foxtrot album.
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![Mellotron M4000D Demo&Review [English Captions]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/4fZBUjuQ8Lo/mqdefault.jpg)
He looks exactly like what I imagined a watcher of the skies would look like
Brilliant 😂
Haha
He looks like he is from the 1700s...lol
😂❤
The song is actually based on Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and the description of the Watcher of the Skies in the book is quite different. More like the horned and tailed devil, lol!
I knew that Santa kept all the best Toys for himself!
What a sick setup! There is no sound more beautiful than a mellotron.
Worked on this setup my whole life! Thanks!
@@ProgRockKeys NO thank you for displaying an age and style of playing that no longer exists. Oh how I miss the 60's and 70's
@@BP-kx2ig Unbelievable - amazing
Amazing. Goosebump time. How I miss Genesis live from the 70 and 80's.
One of the most beautiful uses of the Mellotron, in Progressive rock history.
Wonderful performance sir.
Thanks for sharing.
Thank you, that was very nice!
Agreed! Tony Banks, Wakeman, Mike Pinder (moody blues) were/are the definitive masters of the Mellotron IMO. And this dude completely nails it!! Beautiful.
As a drummer I start the hi hat rhythm off as you fade out, perfectly played John, wonderful!
The MOST CORRECT Sound I have ever heard from Cover !!!!!!!!!!!!!! Excellent !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wow, thanks!
As a life long Genesis fan I can say that was perfectly done! however my eye was drawn to that modular Moog behind you. Keith would have been proud!
Thanks! That modular is the product of a wonderful small company located south of Dallas Tx called Synthesizers.com. I have it featured on another video, playing a Bach Invention, but I have this idea for something completely different hopefully coming soon.
Of course the true way to make him proud is to stab knives into its keyboard
Nice Time and Tide profile pic!
@@reeseboyd5730 Thanks, Greenslades finest album, sadly too late to save the band from breaking up!
What a big sound! Terrific!
Behold the majesty and glory of our Mellotron overlord! Praise!!!
Amazing Mellotron intro from the summer of my years.❤❤❤❤❤
Gave me chills to watch this!! Off the hook!
Bang on John - it sounds exactly like the way Banks played it. Great sound
One of the greatest cover i’ve heard. Fantastic!!
Wow!
“How appropriately monumental, and that without decadence!
What we’ve captured in that one composition alone-ALONE!”
Woah, you are like a wizard. Great cover sir!
He is the watcher of the skies
It's the warble and imperfections that make it great.
I've heard this intro hundreds of times (well done!) And just now realized it sounds like the soundtrack to a 1950's creature feature monster movie. I can just picture Dracula emerging from his coffin, or Frankenstein coming alive with lightning. So cool.
Thats what it looked like to me, at the Roxy in 1973. I had never even heard the band before, this was my first intro to them, live, with Peter Gabriel in the dark, spreading out his bat wings right in front of me! It really made an impression, I have to tell ya!
Still blows my mind today today
He absolutely nails it ! Sounds like Tony Banks with original equipment. No knock to Roger King who, to the best of my knowledge uses synths only to achieve the same.
Che emozione. Sembra proprio di ascoltare l'inizio di Foxtrot. ♥️ Tony Forever.
Damn, Santa. Kick ass!
That introduction is prog in a nutshell.
Such a beautiful haunting sound!
fantastic....I absolutely love this.
Wow! That hits the spot. Well done sir.
Nailed it!
Brilliant.
Una delle più belle introduzioni strumentali col Mellotron che abbia mai ascoltato e sempre nello stesso brano uno dei più bei finali sempre col Mellotron e sempre dei Genesis un altro grande finale da Seven Stones sempre col Mellotron !!!!
Ma seven stones non finisce col piano? 🤔
@@orcogenialeBeh, no. Il piano in Seven Stones non viene utilizzato, ci sono solo organo e Mellotron ed è proprio quest'ultimo che termina il brano unitamente all'organo Hammond.
Brilliant!
Perfection!!!!!!!
Love this!!
Absolutely beautiful!
Beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
Outstanding !
Absolutely wonderful!
Marvellous!
Spot-on! Well done!
Now I've got, how real watcher of the skies looks like!) Great mild sounds and slow deepest tempo of performing!
Ethereal, spine tingling and wonderful....
One of my favorite videos on youtube at the moment, i love the end how he keeps going
Perfect Performance!, the best cover of this song that I have seen, and I saw a lot of it, congratulations!
Simply Amazing. Wonderful.
oh lala ...excellent 👏👏
Excellent performance !!! 👍👍👍
Excellent!
Goosebumps!
Well, that was pretty much spot on, huh? Pretty much perfect. Congrats!
Superb!. ♥
Perfetto. Grazie
sounds great! well done !
Perfect.
epic
I remem ber seeing them when they first came touring in the US. First time i ever saw a Melotron.They had 3 separate tape racks all in road cases and they had to sit out in room temperature so they would be stable when inserted in the Melotron. It sounded so cool. Back then in 1973 my friend bought a brand new B3 with a 122 Leslie right out of the box for $3000 USD as well as a Mini Moog Model D. They did Yes ELP and Gen and played in battle of the bands. They never won despite how good they were. It was always the Led Zep style bands that won.
BTW nice job on WOTS. :)
Spot on! Labour of love! Magnificent!
Thank you!
Perfect 👍
Perfeito, parabens
Perfecto !!!
Thank you!
Congratulazioni maestro
Anyone else start singing the high hat pattern toward the end? beautiful work.
Nicely done! :-)
Awesome
Thanks for the awesome Mellotron demonstration, and for playing one of our favorite Mellotron songs! As longtime lovers of the sound of the Mellotron (Craig's 1st musical instrument was his M400 acquired in 1976) our philosophy is... "There is no such thing as too much Mellotron". We have the M400 (W/4 tape frames) an M4000D (the big one), and two Mellotron Micro's. We also used several Mellotron Apps on our 1st album.
Long live the Mellotron!
Cherry Records is releasing a compilation called Blank Generation. One cut is called Gimme Cigarette by Cigarettes, basically Philo Cramer and me in 1975-1977. Opening chords are from my chamberlain 100, strings, the prototype for a Mellotron. A true bonafide nightmare instrument.
@@ProgRockKeys Sounds awesome! We will look for it!
great cover
VERY NICE
magia... pura.... 🎶👍🎵💪😁
5 stars excellent
Abso-feaking-lutely. So good. Korg 01W!!! Mellotron! Two of my fave instruments of all time. Did several albums with the Korg 01W, simply a great and easy to use workstation. Floppies aside, the sequencer!! so easy and the sounds never get old to me although I guess I would be considered old by now. Sold my mellotron in 1988 to get a VP330, always regretted that move should have stretched and kept both. You are the real deal. sub.
とても素晴らしいです。
genial!
Bravo!
Thank you!
Very nice...
(I think there should be an octave Bb in the left hand at 0:32 , though.)
Excellent sounds...great job!
Cool beans, John!
Genial ❤❤
excellent Mellotron !
Thank you!
Congratulations... the entire note by note performance is spot on. Wish to there was a score to these parts. Thanks 🎉
There’s a great top view of someone playing this, I scribbled a score down from that at the time, then memorized it.
For my whole life I dreamed to have such instruments.. ( Minimoog first )
Congratultions and greetings from Italy
Yes, me as well! I’m 67 years old, went to work at 17 and got my first Hammond M3 organ for my 18th birthday. I keep buying keys ever since that time! 50 years of working, but I finally have them! Haha
Now I need to use them more, your comments are inspiring
Very nice John.
Thanks!
Dude, a modular Moog....in your home set up??? WOW! What a rig!! I'd give my left foot to have something like this at my daily disposal. Oh, and outstanding rendition of the Watcher intro, BTW. Thank for this!
The Modular is by a company called synthesizers dot com. The make full size modules in the style of the original Moog, but with modern components.
The song is actually based on Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End, and the description of the Watcher of the Skies in the book is quite different. More like the horned and tailed devil, lol!
Was waiting for the bass and drums to come in.
Dah-de-de dot dot dot dot dot de-dot dah-de-de dah-de-de
Dah-de-de dot dot dot dot dot de-dot dah-de-de dah-de-de
etc!
@@eegull Yeah that's it.
BRAVO!
Fucking Brilliant!
Well done indeed.
Thank you!
Best overall sound in this version....
Thank you!
Spot on!
1:46 Just needs Phil to come in quietly there. This reminds me of the Genesis Live version.
Great work! Helped me to learn. I wonder if you could get that left hand accordion bass sound on a Moog also?
💥
Very accurate reproduction of my favorite Mellotron piece.
But what I like even more is your complete set of keyboards. 🤩
Would you mind to list it?
Let’s see - current main rig
Hammond XK3C with Leslie 3300
Moog Voyager XL
Synthesizers Dot Com System 66
Korg O1W Pro/X
Roland RD700NX
Mellotron M4000D
Mini Moog Model D (original)
Soundcraft GB2R 12.2 Mixer
QSC Power Amp
JBL pole mount stage monitors, 15” woofers
Roland KC 600 for low end
Working on something that will feature the entire rig, soon.
@@ProgRockKeys - all you need at this point is a set of Taurus Peddles and your life is complete! 😁
great sound John, I'm trying to get this out of my Memotron, but I think I might need a second kb to get closer to the original....good job.
Thanks - Brass and Strings on right hand, I think he used Accordian of all things on the left, very low register. I’m just using a low string pad of the Korg 01W Pro/X. The Anna Strings patch on the old Korg sounds amazing just doubling the Mellotron strings, one of these days I will post a recording of that.
@@ProgRockKeys yup, it was an accordion in the left hand. Don't know how he did it when he changed to just the M400 though.
Tony Banks in 40 years time . . .
Tony Banks in forty years time will be 101!
@@briane5706 precisely . . .
Really he is a Wizard
John, this is one of the best versions I’ve heard. I am currently in the middle of re-creating the sound and was wondering if you used in Oregon/B3 . for the left hand did you use use a chord or just an octave for notes held. Again great job
Thanks! Left hand is octave only, played on a Korg 01W/ProX with an orchestral card, the Anna Strings patch. Right hand is Mellotron 4000D, Brass on one channel, 3 Violins M400 patch on the other. When I turn to my right I do switch to a Hammond XK3c on right hand, doubling the Mellotron part on my left - Hammond sound is a direct patch, I didn’t bother with the Leslie.
I recorded direct into Reaper through my Tascam interface, and applied a fairly heavy dose of Reverb but I don’t remember which Reverb patch it was. That was when it really filled out on my studio speakers. When I play it in the room it also sounds awesome, but I use a couple of old Bose effects units live, one for digital delay and another for reverb.
That Korg Anna Strings patch when doubled up with Mellotron really works also, I will post something one of these days to demo that sound. 30 year old keyboard, that Korg, but it has a few sounds that still sound fat and lush, at least to my old ears. :)
Father Xmas is a good player
I didn't know Dicky Attenborough played keyboards😮
Where can a person find a transcription of the whole intro?
would there be anyway to get this in say a flac file
Maybe, if I still have a WAV file of the recording - I think I was testing out my Reaper install, and I wanted to update an older video of this same opening - just curious though, why? At the end, there’s no Peter Gabriel or Mike Rutherford jumping in, so it’s a bit of a let down I thought :)
Which instrument are you playing with the left hand in the first part John? Great sound altogether. Just like the start of Genesis Live, which I heard first and always liked more than the studio one.
I just tead your other answer on this. O1/W? Sounds good. What did Tony Banks use. Another manual on the Hammond?
@@davebellamy4867 I think he used a double Mellotron originally, it was an accordian sample. Live I’m not sure - I saw them play this at the Roxy in 1973, I only remember the single Mellotron 400, a small Hammond with an arp synth (?) on top. Could be the low notes were done by Mike Rutherford, using his pedals. It was a stunning sound live, real horror show. I had no idea who they were, they seemed like a vampire band at first!
@@ProgRockKeys I like your description of the horror show, vampire band vibe. Wished I could have seen them then. I recently read Jim Kerr of Simple Minds describe seeing Genesis around 73-74 and that Peter was like a Droog from Clockwork Orange. Menace. Thanks for your vids.
@@ProgRockKeys Tony did have a ARP the Pro Soloist, a pretty simple control interface but one of first keys with aftertouch effects. Used this for many memorable leads
To me Watcher of the Sky's
By Genesis and Starless by King Crimson set the Bar for Mellotron.
Very nice, but the wrong bass note at 0.33. It should be Bb and not Db.
You beat me to it. By 2 years
Is he playing two mellotrons ? Tony Banks used to have just one.