Hammond Extravaganza Part 2 : A HAMMOND S

erik neuteboom wrote: OK Jim, good idea, shall I create a new thread entitled Hammond Extravaganza Part 3 or .. ?

Leave this with me Erik, I've had a couple of thoughts - I shall get back to you asap.

Dick, about Niacin, I have their album Time Crunch, their covers from Jeff Beck (song Blue Wind) and King Crimson (song Red) are mindblowing, very special to hear these Hammond drenched versions

A big hand for Jimi and Steve Winwood  !

Not Prog but a very nice Hammond moment can be heard on a track called Forever by The Charlatans from the Us and Only Us album.

Nightfly wrote: Not Prog but a very nice Hammond moment can be heard on a track called Forever by The Charlatans from the Us and Only Us album.

Good spot - Nightfly

I can remember - just digged out the song - great!

Mandrakeroot wrote: great work, Erik.   For my name-day finally I received a DVD reader.  So "Rock Millenstones: Wishbone Ash: Argus" and Phish's "In Concert: Possum" are my two new DVD. Frankly to see the DVD with the computer was too mortifying!    In Ash's "Argus" album (the definitive Prog album for me) is great the Renaissance John Tout's Hammond on "Throw Down The Sword" (the first Epic Metal song in history), that it is not easy to understand. Personally in record and in CD the two twin soli by Andy Powell, originally created for to find the better one, overhang the work of the Hammond.  In "Rock Millenstones: Wishbone Ash: Argus" finally Mart Turner with the original multi traces album it does to listen to us this masterpiece without bass and drums... That atmospheres that a Hammond carpet creates... And think that Tout plays in "Argus" to change again the made favor from Andy in an album of the Renaissance...    Well, after this my revelation, Erik, what driven Hammond DVD you recommended me?

jimmy_row wrote: I've been listening to Electric Ladyland a lot the past couple weeks and I'm struck with the amazing hammond organ/guitar all over Voodoo Chile.  For some reason, I never bothered to find out who was playing the Hammond on that track and checked today...and it's Steve Winwood.  I knew he could play...but damn!  He always seemed just a bit restrained with Spencer Davis and Traffic.  Voodoo Chile has some of the best tones I've ever heard from the B3, and he really smokes it!

Rivertree wrote: Nightfly wrote: Not Prog but a very nice Hammond moment can be heard on a track called Forever by The Charlatans from the Us and Only Us album. Good spot - Nightfly I can remember - just digged out the song - great!

The Charlatans were always a band worth listening to for Hammond junkies; the 'Us And Us Only' album is particularly good (you even get the occasional Mellotron popping by...)



Not absolutely sure, but I seem to remember reading the keyboard player on that album died a year or two ago; since then, although they still have a Hammond player, their sound has moved away from so much reliance on the organ sound.

Dick Heath wrote: jimmy_row wrote: I've been listening to Electric Ladyland a lot the past couple weeks and I'm struck with the amazing hammond organ/guitar all over Voodoo Chile.  For some reason, I never bothered to find out who was playing the Hammond on that track and checked today...and it's Steve Winwood.  I knew he could play...but damn!  He always seemed just a bit restrained with Spencer Davis and Traffic.  Voodoo Chile has some of the best tones I've ever heard from the B3, and he really smokes it!   Excellent choice - remember because of contractual reasons, most of the players on ELL weren't named, so it was some time before Steve Winwood and Jack Casidy's names bubbled through wrt to that tune. Also remember the tune was an afterthought wrt to inclusion to the album. It is a cleverly spliced together  track of several spontaneous jams that petered out individually. So wonder if Winwood  did any "plastering over the cracks" with his solos? There are a couple of  bootlegs around with Hendrix and most of Traffic in support. You would have read that Traffic also jammed with Wynder K Frogg when Winwood wasn't around. The hippy culture and all that!   BTW just read that at a recent Hendrix tribute concert Mitch Mitchell played; the reviewer stated this performance demonstrated Mitchell is still one of the best users of Elvin Jones' style of drumming around.

It still seems like there are many credits missing...the notes of the cd reissue don't list who plays Hammond on the remaining tracks, harpsichord on Midnight Lamp, and the extra piano bits here and there.  Interesting that Voodoo Chile was an "afterthought", it really feels like they hit the "sweet spot" with that one (the fact that it was apparently improvised tells me that something "special" was in the air), and I'd agree that it is masterfully pieced together, I can picture myself in the audience with the added sound effects - just like a crowded smoky bar with Jimi's almost Satanic leads and that evil B3 sound.  I'll have to search for one of these bootlegs you speak of with Hendrix/Traffic.