Another new thing it had on it, which the Beatles kind of debuted, was the mellotron....
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Tony Visconti: [referring to "Space Oddity"] Another new thing it had on it, which the Beatles kind of debuted, was the mellotron.
Rick Wakeman: David wanted it because he wanted it to sound not like strings, but like stings. And I knew exactly what he meant. It's recorded strings. It's a taped sound. But, one of the problems you have with this instrument is that it only last eight seconds and it cuts out. So, if you hold a chord long enough, and sometimes you need to hold it for a lot longer than eight seconds, after you get to the eight second line, it starts to
[sound gets wobbly and abruptly stop]
Rick Wakeman: - to do that - which is why I hated the bloody thing. I have to be brutally honest with you
Rick Wakeman: David wanted it because he wanted it to sound not like strings, but like stings. And I knew exactly what he meant. It's recorded strings. It's a taped sound. But, one of the problems you have with this instrument is that it only last eight seconds and it cuts out. So, if you hold a chord long enough, and sometimes you need to hold it for a lot longer than eight seconds, after you get to the eight second line, it starts to
[sound gets wobbly and abruptly stop]
Rick Wakeman: - to do that - which is why I hated the bloody thing. I have to be brutally honest with you
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And another new thing it had on it
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which the Beatles kind of debuted was the Mellotron
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David wanted it because he wanted it to sound
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not like strings but like strings
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And I knew exactly what he meant It's recorded strings
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So tapes inside
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Um but one of the problems you have with this instrument
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is that uh a note only lasts eight seconds
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And then it cuts out
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So if you hold a chord long enough
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and sometimes you need to hold it for a lot longer than eight seconds
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after you get to the eight second mark it starts to
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to do that which is why I hated the bloody thing
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um to be brutally honest with you
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Movie Summary
Documentary following five years of Bowie's early career, from the late 1960s through to the on-stage death of Ziggy Stardust in 1973 and features never seen before archive interviews with some of Bowie's earliest collaborators.
