The Brutality of the Hammond: Tarkus

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   Tarkus is indeed an awesome accomplishment. I don't even really like ELP, but that is a great track with some great organ on it. Overall though, I perfer Vincent Crane's playing to Emerson's.

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thellama73 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: May 29 2006 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 8368	Posted: December 11 2010 at 23:20
	Tarkus is indeed an awesome accomplishment. I don't even really like ELP, but that is a great track with some great organ on it. Overall though, I perfer Vincent Crane's playing to Emerson's.


Epignosis Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: December 30 2007 Location: Raeford, NC Status: Offline Points: 32559	Posted: December 11 2010 at 08:41
	"Tarkus" is one of the greatest prog epics ever written, and I agree- the organ is awesome throughout.
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yanch Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 03 2010 Location: Lowell, MA Status: Offline Points: 3247	Posted: December 11 2010 at 08:33
	I agree the Hammond on Tarkus is wonderfully brutal, but I'd also give some love to Jon Lord of Deep Purple who got some wonderfully brutal, almost fuzz guitar, sounds out of the Hammond.

ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420	Posted: December 10 2010 at 23:56
	Yep, agree wholeheartedly as *Tarkus* has some of the most visceral organ sounds in the whole of Prog. From memory, I think the instrument is limited to having the percussion setting available on only one manual at a time (so Keith used two organs for his left and right hand parts on the album)

jammun Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Prog Reviewer Joined: July 14 2007 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 3449	Posted: December 10 2010 at 22:25
	Okay, I'm 'round 'bout two sheets to the wind it being Friday night. But..if ya want to hear pure Hammond fury, that Tarkus ranks right up there. Emerson is taking no prisoners, he's got the Hammond drilled down to it's essence, the tone-wheels at their edge. Percussion set to Third, probably with some extraneous modifications. Yes there are better players I suppose, but this is the Hendrix of the Hammond. We hear every nuance of that instrument. We hear every wail and every high and every low it is capable of. sh*t, clear the battlefield.
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