"Chimes" by J. Geils features some great B-3 work, especially on "Blow Your Face Out", a live album.


96 Tears
Do You Know What I Mean
Maggie May
Lots of Booker T. and the M. G.'s.
and, yeah, Bach was a rocker of his day. The organ break in "Smokin'" by Boston is pure Bach.




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Anything with Ian McLagen on the B-3

Mac can really work it. Among others, "You're So Rude" comes to mind.

I like the sound of the slurpping when a mouth is over my organ! THATS THE BEST SOUND!!!!

>Agree with rknuth that Ekseption is fab. Beethoven´s 5 & Air &
>A La Turka is my fav´s.

Yup, A La Turka by Johann Sebastian Bach. Ekseption played a lot of Bach stuff.

T&A you´re right about Sir DQ. They are severely underrated.

"Ekseption played a lot of Bach stuff."

Yup, and so did - and does - Jon Lord.
The organ orgy in Highway Star after he just almost smashed the Hammond
is a true Bach'er (but from what piece.... ?)

"My Ding-a-Ling" - Chuck Berry?

Chest Fever!!!

Hair implants and UK gigs by The Maverick.

@#$%& blues and plaster caster

Albinoni "Adagio"

Any "Yes" track during the Rick Wakeman years

Led Zeppelin's "No Quarter"

The beginning of U2's "Where The Streets Have No Name"



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Odd beat, the organ on Torn and Frayed is played by Jim Price. I read that he was only fiddling around in one room. He had the track coming through headphones to him in one room where he was with the organ. Andy Johns & co were working on the track and unbeknownst to him began recording him while he was playing. It was a keepr.
Loathe all "Rock" ed interpretations of Beethove and Bach. Go for the real thing.
We have forgoittne about Stevei Winwood's lick in "Gimme Some Lovin" - maybe the best ever Hammond B3 Leslie sound.
There is something ultracool about Greg Allman's sound on the Bros' songs. Very understaed, yet it is aklways there and adds a lot of soul.
And as far as the worst sounds on organ, none other than that grinder from the Doors comes to mind. Absolute noodling, overcooked pasta on the keys! "Light my Fire"??? OUCH! The alltime worst, followee closely by almost anything coming from Paul Shaffer.

Thanks Chelsea for the heads up re. Jim Price on T&F!

...I guess the "real thing" would be JSB himself! :O) You know, I have heard interpretations of some of his pieces that were done by genuine "classical" guys - none of those RnR-perverted ones! - and didn't sound exactly perfect to my ears with regard to speed consistency and stuff...

...I need to listen to/discover the Allman Bros catalogue a lot further...

...I do also hate the Doors organ sound prodigiously... BUT I like the PLAYING of Manzareck. I think he is a good improviser and imagines good "rythmn groups" when he blows. The Doors are four great musicians, incl. JM as a singer.

SAD EYED LADY OF THE lowlands.Period.

the only other good organ song i can think of is off iorr..short and curlies.. ha

J.S. Bach!!!!

Hey Odd-Beat - you can't go wrong with the ABB album "Beginnings" - it's their first two albums repackaged on one and it's available on CD. And - as always - the greatest live album of all time - At Fillmore East. The version on Liz Reed on that is probably the finest display of musicianship ever. And to thing it was all live and all improvised.

Odd-beat Wrote:
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> BUT I like the PLAYING of
> Manzareck. I think he is a good improviser and
> imagines good "rythmn groups" when he blows. The
> Doors are four great musicians, incl. JM as a
> singer.

Manzarek also took care of the bass with the footpedals.

Complicated!!!Great.

gonna have to go with:

Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys- Traffic. when they hold that dissonant chord forever, it is transcendental.

i also like tony banks' work on The Knife (genesis live '73)

wakeman on I Seen All Good People

the oft-mentioned procol harem's ighter Shade of Pale

the crescendo of YCAGWYW

lots of stuff from john paul jones and zep.

am I just plain stupid or doesn't "Worried about You" use the organ?

I think it's an electric piano on "Worried." Who's playing it - mick?

cc

>
> The beginning of U2's "Where The Streets Have No
> Name"
>
>




YEAH!! Can't believe no-one else mentioned this.

Also, love the organ sound on 'Samba Pa Ti' by Santana


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What's your favourite flavour?...........Cherry Red!!

How about some Black Crowes?

"She talkes to Angels"and "Seeing things" comes to my mind

Good choice, rooster! Thats a good one!

Hey Open-G - just don't tell anybody that our very own Chuck L. is the one playing organ on the album version of "She Talks To Angels." (Hey, I'm an ABB fan - I like Chuck).

wow - I didn't realize that and now just checked the booklet.
indeed it says Chuck Leavell - Piano, Organ and expensive Jackets.

but I only mentioned those songs because of the beautyful organ.
I too like Chuck, when he's in the right perspective of the mix - meaning background.

Yes, ChelseaDrugstore, Gimme Some Lovin' is a one of the best.

Let me present a real killer:
Fire - The Crazy World of Arthur Brown.
Does anyone remember that one from the 60's?

"I am the god of hellfire and I bring you . . . FIRE . . . " Who can forget that crazy song?

Tulips On My Organ".