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Posted: November 12 2007 at 05:43

The Whistler, wait and see my Hammond article, I will not forget Procol Harum, certainly not

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Posted: November 12 2007 at 05:30

What, Matthew Fisher mentioned merely in passing? Procol Harum is a God-like collection of organ rockers! And Shine On Brightly has some of the greatest (Jeffrey Hammond-Hammond) organ playing I ever heard, "Quite Rightly So" and "Skip Softly (My Moonbeams)" taking presidence. Avoid not these, oh lovers of the keys.

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Posted: November 12 2007 at 05:24

Lady In Black, you should check out Jon Lord with The Hoochie Coochie Band DVD (see page 1 of this thread), indeed, he's incredible and a master on the Hammond (very spectacular use of the drawbars). But I grew up with the album Made In Japan, mindblowing work on the Hammond organ and I am glad that it is now on DVD

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Posted: November 12 2007 at 05:19

In my opinion JON LORD is the King of Hammond in Prog field!

Who do you think?

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Posted: November 12 2007 at 05:14

Vielen Dank, Rivertree, the CD Complete Live Oblivion looks interesting because I love live albums and perhaps it matches with songs on my 1989 live video of Brian Auger's Oblivion Express

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Posted: November 12 2007 at 04:08

Erik - Brian Auger's Oblivion Express is worth a listen

I recommend
- Second Wind (containing one of my top 10 Hammond songs Freedom Jazz Dance)
- Happiness Heartaches (which I own as Vinyl - ~~actually not added~~ done )
- Complete Live Oblivion (if you like live performances)

Edited by Rivertree - November 12 2007 at 07:13

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Posted: November 12 2007 at 03:40

Chicapah (and others), at this moment I am writing about Brian Auger for my Hammond article, which albums would you recommend to me? I was blown away by his 1989 Jazz Festival performance I have on a video, so many exciting solos on his Hammond B3, great build-ups and often very swirling, he's a master on the Hammond organ

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Posted: November 11 2007 at 20:15

I've been listening to my old Brian Auger LPs lately since he was added to the site and I'm still blown away by his Hammond rides. The guy is a monster.

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Posted: November 11 2007 at 18:38

Yesterday I received a splendid How The Hammond Organ Works chapter by vintage keyboard freak Pierre Olivier and today I received an e-mail from Nexus keyboardplayer Lalo Huber, I had asked him to write about his love for the Hammond and he has a fine story, I am sure the Hammond Organ Special will be an interesting one, also because of the great contributions of Hammond freaks on Prog Archives

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Posted: November 06 2007 at 05:14

I just got a PM from Rivertree (Uwe), I had invited him to

contribute to my Hammond article, this is his proposal:

Uwe: "I have made some lists:
- my Top 10 Of Hammond infected songs
- quite rare and unknown Hammond saturated Krautrock albums
- current german Neo Krautrock/Psych Bands using Hammond
(for this chapter I can also give some additional informations ...)"

I think this is a wonderful extra dimension from Germany

Edited by erik neuteboom - November 06 2007 at 05:17

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Posted: November 05 2007 at 14:54

At this moment I am listening to

, what an awesome and exciting Hammond work, I am glad that she will appear in my Hammond article, thanks for the recommendations

Barbara Dennerlein: "The pedals are absolutely crucial for my way of playing the Hammond organ. They enable me to create a very special rhythmic structure which cannot be easily imitated by the double-bass, since together with the two manuals I have a kind of "rhythmic triptych" at my disposal."

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Posted: November 04 2007 at 06:27

Tomorrow I will receive this Barbara Dennerlein compilation CD, I am very curious to listen to it after all those euphoric words (while I have not heard a single note of her albums):

More info: http://www.barbaradennerlein.com/en/recordings/index.php

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 13:39

Of course Rivertree but in the beginning Laurens Hammond was not pleased at all with the Leslie speaker, not until after his death the combination started to spread her wings.

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 11:34

Looks well - your table of contents, Erik Thumbs%20Up

I hope there is room enough for the special collaboration between Hammond and Leslie?

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 10:39

Easy Money wrote:

Everthing else I have by Young is in that massive 5 volume Blue Note collection which is all good but more traditional, so there is that middle period that I need to check out. I found some jazz and funk sites that had good info but I didn't save any of them.
By the way, did you ever get my Bartok recommendations? I have to go to "work" now. I'll respond later.

Cheers - I'll check what it said about other albms in the liner notes for Lawrence of Newark and post the info. Thanks for reminding me of the request of Bartok recommendations, I'm afraid it slipped my memory to check - and now with the reorganisation, where will I find the thread?

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 09:52

Everthing else I have by Young is in that massive 5 volume Blue Note collection which is all good but more traditional, so there is that middle period that I need to check out. I found some jazz and funk sites that had good info but I didn't save any of them.
By the way, did you ever get my Bartok recommendations? I have to go to "work" now. I'll respond later.

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 08:40

Easy Money wrote:

Dick Heath wrote:

After holding back for a very long time - but also restricted by not readily finding his albums available - I've bought my first Larry Young solo album, the (apparently totally) improv Lawrence of Newark (Castle Communication Records). An excellent piece of Hammond in Young's unique style, I guess continuing on from his work on Santana's Welcome album (although I'm not certain which got recorded first). The liner notes for the CD point to other albums, which the author claims were masterpieces - I'm definitely going to sample his solo work further.

Hi Richard, Glad you enjoy Lawrence ... that was one of my top 5 album picks. I was afraid it was too "raw" for many, but maybe not.

which album(s) would you recommend next?

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 08:27

Hi Richard, Glad you enjoy Lawrence ... that was one of my top 5 album picks. I was afraid it was too "raw" for many, but maybe not.

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 07:21

Thanks Dick

Here is my final version of my Hammond organ article, it will be published in several parts between mid - and late November this year:

THE HAMMOND ORGAN

“From a poor man’s pipe organ to a progrock musician's big band”

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2 : The history of the Hammond organ

Chapter 3: How does it work? By PA member Pierreolivier

Chapter 4: The heavy weighted Hammond models on the small catwalk

Chapter 5: A personal Hammond story: a meeting with my hero Thijs Van

Leer

Chapter 6: The masters on the Hammond organ (from Jimmy Smith, Eddie

Hardin and Greg Rolie to Brian Auger, Reese Wynans and

Barbara Dennerlein)

Chapter 7: 1967-2007 Fourty years of Hammond sounds in progressive rock

Chapter 8: A Hammond story by PA member and jazz specialist Dick Heath

Chapter 9: Quotes about the Hammond organ by Dutch progrock musicians

(like Rick v/d Linden, Thijs van Leer and Ton Scherpenzeel)

Chapter 10: My favorite Hammond organ drenched CD’s and DVD’s

Chapter 11: PA members about the Hammond organ and their Hammond Album Top 5 (Jim Garten, Ozzy Tom, Jimmy Row, Easy Money, Rivertree

and Dalt99)

Chapter 12: This is not a Hammond organ! (about the Farfisa and Vox

Continental organs)

Chapter 13: Sources of information

Chapter 14: Interesting links

By the way, M@X : can I get a small percentage of the money you earn with the 'Hammond adds' in this thread

Edited by erik neuteboom - October 30 2007 at 07:27

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Posted: October 30 2007 at 06:25

After holding back for a very long time - but also restricted by not readily finding his albums available - I've bought my first Larry Young solo album, the (apparently totally) improv Lawrence of Newark (Castle Communication Records). An excellent piece of Hammond in Young's unique style, I guess continuing on from his work on Santana's Welcome album (although I'm not certain which got recorded first). The liner notes for the CD point to other albums, which the author claims were masterpieces - I'm definitely going to sample his solo work further.

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