Melvyn Gale

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  I Wanna Stay - Wilson Gale and Co - ELO related

  'I wanna stay' is a single from Wilson Gale and Co and is taken from their album 'Gift Wrapped' Melvyn Gale was a cello player in the Electric Light Orchestra and recorded the album with Frank Wilson after he left the band. The single was released on Jet Records in 1979 Read my interview with Melvyn Gale here cherryblossomclinic.110mb.com

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  ELO - Mik's Violin Solo/Hungarian Dance No. 5/Orange Blossom Special Live @ Winterland

  Taken from a bootleg recording from The Face The Music Tour live at Winterland Ballroom San Fransisco February 14, 1976. As in previous shows, Mik Kaminski and Hugh mcdowell performed solo violin and cello pieces respectively during the show. Mik performed a self-written and unnamed solo piece that sometimes used passages from Edvard Grieg's In The Hall Of The Mountain King as well as heavy echo effects as the solo part progressed. This violin solo part merged with a selection from of Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5 and Orange Blossom Special when the drums, bass and keyboards joined in. The self-written first part varied from show to show and it is likely that Mik improvised the performance at each show. Hugh performed his own self-written and unnamed solo piece which similarly merged with Rimsky-Korsakov's Flight Of The Bumblebee where bass and drums joined in, although this was not improvised and was the same self-written song at each performance. (It should be noted that the solo piece, although the same at each show on the Face The Music tour, was different from the solo piece performed at the prior Eldorado tour.) It is curious that on all of the official releases, these solos were not released. It is probably due to contracts and/or copyright reasons that these solo performances have never been officially released, although they have been bootlegged from various sources. I used the only existing video of Mik Kaminski performing a violin solo from the German TV show ...

More on Melvyn Gale

Name At Birth:

Melvyn Gale

Birth Date:

January 15, 1952

Occupation:

Musician

Instrument Played

Keyboards, Cello

Record Label:

Jet Records

Associated With:

Electric Light Orchestra

Website:

Musical career

Genre:

Rock music

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