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A Hammond Organ! (complete with a Leslie and an organist)
The coolest instrument ever. I want the kit so bad. A bit heavy to haul perhaps
Last edited by JCat; 08-09-2019 at 05:45 PM.
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08-09-2019 02:32 PM
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I sold mine last year but kept one of the Leslie 122's
I'm running a Hammond XK2 portable organ through it.
Much as I loved it the old Hammond was taking up too much space.
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I helped move a B-3 once.
Once.
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Really enjoyed that documentary.
Some Jimmy Smith:
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I just crank up the vibrato pedal and pretend I'm playing organ, like Charlie Hunter.
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
I'm going home, brother:
The fuzz about the "sad state of music" indicates the groove is gone and that the warmth and the soul is gone. I figure there's too little Hammond organ in my life. The roots of Jazz and Soul music are right here in the Gospel. Mama goes old school:
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Originally Posted by cosmic gumbo
anyone know what he uses ?
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I play with an organ trio quite often. I, too, helped the organ player move his stuff, ONCE.. . He's one of the very few players where i live that doesn't use a Nord or something similar to gig. He's got a smaller hammond for gigs though, but still a real one. There's just no comparing the sound..
I use this for leslie tones, showed it to the organ player and he laughed, but i like it..
Thats the band. I must have asked the organ player a hundred times to sell me that cut down super reverb, he doesn't budge..
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Originally Posted by Alter
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When I saw Larry Goldings recently (with Peter Bernstein), he was using a Hammond borrowed for the gig from UK organist Ross Stanley. Apparently Ross has some amazing powered trolley gadget which they used to ‘walk’ up the stairs with the organ.
I get the impression some of the big name guys tend to rely on the organ being supplied locally when they tour (as Larry did), I guess they specify it as a condition of the tour or something.
Even the vibes player Joe Locke came over to the UK with just a set of bars for his vibes and hired the frame locally, when I saw him a while back.
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I've been playing in organ bands almost exclusively for about 25 yrs now, can't tell you how many times I moved a B-3. Probably thousands of times until they all switched to modern portable Hammonds in the last few yrs.
Backyard party where we had to cover a few hundred feet of grass, or up a few flights of stairs, or even lift it over the bar, try that one sometime!
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way to go:
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The Leslie is one great amp. They are also one of the heavest.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by Litterick
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A thing I really enjoy about the hammond organ is how it matches and compliments jazz guitar, the sound, the attack and dynamics, the space it leaves for comping.. doesn't get any better. I also like that kind of jazz music a lot.
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Leslie cabinets are one of the best innovations ever made in music history. I can’t think of any gear that can add so much tonal color for so many different instruments as Leslies. Electric guitar and Leslies, what an amazing combination! Lovely!
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Originally Posted by Alter
Here's Joey DeFrancesco with Dan Wilson on guitar.
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I played a few blues gigs in a pick up band with a guitarist that used a leslie bottom cab, doing a SRV thing. BTW, CBS owned both Fender and Leslie in the late 60s and Fender made the Vibratone amp which was actually a Leslie.
Last edited by cosmic gumbo; 08-13-2019 at 02:54 AM.
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JCat - Great stuff! Over the years I've played with some outstanding organ players at church.
AKA
Originally Posted by JCat
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Originally Posted by pingu
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I sense warmth and soul, a good spirit
Electric Guitar and Hammond Organ are meant to be together, a marriage made in heaven, sticks like white on rice, a golden couple...
Horace Silver wrote the song for us. It's so fun to play:
I'm gonna buy me Hammond, haul it up and down the road and play like Joey DeFrancesco.
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Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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The Fender SuperChamp XD has a Leslie emulation. Sure it's not the real thing, but fun to play around with.
Oh, and I have an EHX B9 pedal. It's no real B3, but it's pretty cool. Every now and then I play it with our group, and listeners scratch their head trying to figure out how the keyboard player can play both grand piano and B3 at the same time...
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