The late Jimmy Smith is one of my favorites.
Posted on 06/26/2018 6:27:27 AM PDT by CharlesOConnell
Audio podcast in a YouTube, 1 hour and 58 minutes.
The first short part of the YouTube in the link, is an audio except from a video documentary of the Hammond Organ.
Next is some short commentary about Hammond organs in the context of the music business.
The host, Sir Walter Jones, has an expert guest, a fellow Hammond organist within the African-American Church, gospel tradition.
They queue audio clips from many famous Black Gospel Hammond organists.
They are personally acquainted with most of the wide variety of expert, African-American Gospel tradition, Hammond organists.
They wax nostalgic.
(Most keyboardists do not use the foot pedals. The standard format for a group with a Hammond organist, is not to have a bassist--the organist supplies the bass part. This puts these very many, extremely expert musicians in a class above most other musicians.)
IMHO the Hammond B3 was as important to rock music as the Fender electric guitar.
Only with a “Fender guitar” you don’t need a moving van and four, big, guys to transport it.
The new, lightweight, electronic keyboard emulate the sound quite well, and they weigh only about 30-50 pounds.
But the subtle sound of the Leslie speaker is largely unknown.
Well, as a keyboardist, who grew up in the 50’s and 60’s, and played in numerous bands (also played a Fender guitar), I think I know the sound.
But, thanks for the comments, anyway.
Lennie Dee - and there’s a rather off color joke about a Hammond organ.
SRV “Cold Shot” (strat played through a Leslie)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2ou-WIxfLY
SRV and Jimmie ‘Family Style’ “Hillbillies from Outerspace”
Jimmie playing a lap steel through a Leslie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqL39n4-BXo
>>Only with a “Fender guitar” you don’t need a moving van and four, big, guys to transport it.<<
What would R&R be without roadies???
:)
I agree 100%.
Freeper FreedomRocks is one of the greats on the Hammond
Pat Travers used a Leslie on the amplifier for his Gibson Les Paul. He put on quite the show back in the day.
His first three albums were awesome.
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The late Jimmy Smith is one of my favorites.
The history of Hammond organs is a great and interesting American story. I happened to wander through it the other day. The owner/inventor was in fact a very sharp guy, but as I recall, it was his accountant was the one who suggested making organs; and Mr. Sharp Guy was on the reluctant side.
I didn’t hear the Leslie speaker in Cold Shot. It may have been too subtle for me to hear, but that was his vibrato. Fast, despite heavy e, B and G strings.
In my years of playing in bands (guitar) I encountered a few guys in TX and the South who could utterly kick yer azz playing the pedals, but I agree, there were keyboard keys that played the same notes, and roadwise, the pedals were a particularly klutzy thing to haul around. So, yeah, a majority played bass on keyboard keys, but not a 10:1 majority. Not that the organ itself was any kind of walk in the park.
Agreed and also Jimmy McGriff!
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