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Mean Streets (1973)

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Dog Day Afternoon - playlist (2/2)

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Dog Day Afternoon - playlist (1/2)

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Entretien avec un vampire

(interview with the vampire)

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Everything is new

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#Night broadcast📌

The instrument that changed the sound of rock: the mellotron.

The mellotron is a musical instrument, a kind of analog synthesizer developed in the early 60s. He has a unique hypnotic sound and without him, many compositions of psychedelic and progressive rock of the 60s and 70s would have turned out much less interesting.

Mike Pinder (Moody Blues) behind the mellotron

The idea was successful for its time: inside the mellotron there are looped tape tapes that are played when certain keys are pressed. The sound turns out to be completely unearthly, ghostly.

One of the first recordings released on which he can be heard was Baby Can It Be True by The Graham Bond Organization (1965).

The following year, Manfred Mann used it to arrange their Semi-Detached single, Suburban Mr. James.

Mike Pinder from The Moody Blues became a great enthusiast of the instrument: he sounds on all the albums of the band from 1967-78. He also introduced the Beatles to the mellotron, and they instantly used it on the recordings of Strawberry Fields Forever.

It was possible to replenish the musical bank of the instrument with completely different sounds - starting from the sounds of various instruments and ending with the sounds of fireworks, sirens, sounds of battles, the noise of rain, wind, thunderstorms, the sound of the surf, etc., the duration of such tracks could not exceed a duration of more than 8 seconds, given the design feature of the instrument and the length of the magnetic tape, which the track was being recorded. And after playing 8 seconds of recording, the pickup head returned to its original position, and the recording was looped in this way (a kind of sample was obtained).

And after that, mellotrons began to be in great demand. King Crimson, for example, purchased two of them at once!

Let's just remember and listen to some of the compositions to which this wonderful instrument gives its magical aura.

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Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, 1965

Designed by Eric Von Schmidt

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Red silver and white cds/dvds/discs~

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Still my guitar gently weeps 💧🌕

Planning to do more weird- psychedelic stuff from now on

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Crying screaming throwing up

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Beatles Wives on Self Help

inspired by paperback book covers of the 60s and 70s, here’s a little graphic design project i’ve been working on pondering the question: what kind of self-help(esque) books would have been useful to the beatles WAGs circa 1968 - then creating them as if they had written them theirselves.

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The Ronettes kicking each other’s ass while on tour with the Beatles (1966).

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orange album art through the years

talking heads - speaking in tongues (1983) // the smiths - louder than bombs (1987) // broadcast - work and non work (1997) // jeff buckley - sketches for my sweetheart the drunk (1998) // blur - 13 (1999) // st. vincent - actor (2009) // frank ocean - channel orange (2012) // tyler the creator - flower boy (2017) // fka twigs - magdalene (2019)

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I'm about to loose my job but that's chill, maybe it's time to do something else

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New Jeans one of the best discography in kpop!!