{"id":14,"date":"2010-12-07T19:52:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T19:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=14"},"modified":"2013-10-21T20:58:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-21T20:58:58","slug":"songs-with-mellotrons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/?p=14","title":{"rendered":"Songs With Mellotrons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RHKY6SCqNNk\/TP6Qf3eWmsI\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/WZs66Blt0ko\/s1600\/mellotron.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5548030668108634818\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 220px; height: 201px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_RHKY6SCqNNk\/TP6Qf3eWmsI\/AAAAAAAAAGk\/WZs66Blt0ko\/s320\/mellotron.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span>We dedicated a two-hour radio show to the Mellotron, which was a popular keyboard instrument using tape loops as a sound source &#8211; the first sampling keyboard, (analog) &#8211; popularized in the 1960s in &#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever&#8221; and many other songs. T<span>hough we couldn&#8217;t totally avoid King Crimson, Zombies, and early Genesis, the show focused on recent examples. Featuring incidental mellotron music by Paul Kotheimer. Afterward hear a bit of a live in-studio concert by Santah. Download the <a href=\"http:\/\/spinitron.com\/member\/showplaylist.php?plid=2574\">playlist<\/a>. <a title=\"Mellotronathon.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20101206mellotrons.mp3\">Or skip the spoiler and listen with open ears<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-387\" alt=\"20110919mellotron\" src=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20110919mellotron-300x224.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20110919mellotron-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20110919mellotron-1024x764.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/20110919mellotron.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Followed by<a title=\"Live, local, raw.\" href=\"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/shows\/20101206weftsessionssantah.mp3\" target=\"_blank\"> a live performance by Santah on the WEFT Sessions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We dedicated a two-hour radio show to the Mellotron, which was a popular keyboard instrument using tape loops as a sound source &#8211; the first sampling keyboard, (analog) &#8211; popularized in the 1960s in &#8220;Strawberry Fields Forever&#8221; and many other songs. Though we couldn&#8217;t totally avoid King Crimson, Zombies, and early Genesis, the show focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chamberlin","category-mellotron","category-santah"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":601,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14\/revisions\/601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rockgeekchic.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}