Re: Re: Kashmir question

[chad brannan <chadbrannan72@xxxxxx>]

I think 
this is part of the reason why live versions of 
Kashmir sounded somewhat cheesy. The mellotron 
that JPJ used live was a toy compared to today's 
digital technology. 
 
 hey hey hey i love the sound of that cheesey mellotron, beats any synth to me.
chad



- -----Original Message-----
From: "who me"<dave_barbee@xxxxxxxxx>
To: zeppelin@xxxxxxxx
Date: Mon Jul 15 20:08:57 PDT 2002
Subject: Re: Kashmir question

><What I want to know is... when Zep recorded 
>Kashmir, did they drag in people 
>playing strings, or was it all synthariffic Jones
>
>style?  I know when it was 
>live it was John Paul's magic fingers... but who 
>is it on my CD?>
>
>They used real live musicians to record the
>strings on Kashmir. The technology available to
>reproduce strings at that time (1975) was
>primitive compared to today and couldn't have
>reproduced strings that sound that good. I think
>this is part of the reason why live versions of
>Kashmir sounded somewhat cheesy. The mellotron
>that JPJ used live was a toy compared to today's
>digital technology. 
>As far as your last question, I don't know who
>the musicians they used were. They aren't
>credited on the album and I've never heard of
>their identities being revealed. That was pretty
>much the standard for highered musicians in the
>70's.
>
>Dave.