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.)
We were just a “working” band...we WERE our own roadies.
Yeah, but not just rock, it was also big in jazz, gospel, soul, funk, even a lot of early heavy metal.
It’s kind of sad that they faded out, but anyone can get a cheap Stratocaster (or imitation) and tote it around with them, while Hammonds get rarer and more expensive and you need to also buy a van or station wagon to get it to a gig. Sure, you can get good synthesizers nowadays but even the best synth falls short of a real Hammond.
That album didn’t have Jon Lord on it?
Agreed, great artist! One of my favorites too.
>>Yeah, but not just rock, it was also big in jazz, gospel, soul, funk, even a lot of early heavy metal.<<
And old-fashioned hymns.
Except to music affectianados the Hammond is underappreciated.
>>but even the best synth falls short of a real Hammond.<<
Truer words were never uttered :)
You bet it was.
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