One of my piercers once told me that the number one sexiest piercing is the bridge.
If you don’t know, this is at the top of the nose, through the fleshy skin.
Some people are lucky enough to have the anatomy for a double bridge piercing.
It’s the one piercing where people come up to me and ask ‘does it hurt?’ I don’t think they mean that – you wouldn’t spend your life wth something that constantly hurt. Did it hurt? No. My piercer, Roni, was measuring up and we were chatting and I asked when was she going to do it. She replied, it’s done.
Fans of prog rock of a certain vintage will know what a Mellotron is. It figures in music by The Moody Blues, King Crimson, PFM, Pavlov’s Dog, The Beatles, Barclay James Harvest, Electric Light Orchestra, Yes, Pink Floyd…
Look, there’s a huge list. Have a look at this fantastic site, Planet Mellotron, to see more.
Many people say the Mellotron is an early form of sampler. It works by having a rack of pre-recorded tapes of a real instrument (or group of instruments or voices), each tape with a specific note, activated by pressing a key on a keyboard.
In fact, each piece of tape can hold three different instruments and you can select between them, or combine them. Each tape lasts roughly 8 seconds. It’s a purely mechanical, analogue device.
As you can imagine, the Mellotron is a pretty large and rather heavy instrument. Later ones had one keyboard, early ones had two, for rhythm/accompaniment and one for the tune.
There are lots of clips of the Mellotron in action, but we like this original clip with magician David Nixon.
It has a sound all of its own, something even modern emulators don’t quite capture.
