The grooviest Hammon organ solo of all time is in The Buckingham’s Kind of a Drag, hitting #1 on the charts in late 1966. You can almost see Teri Garr and Toni Basil twisting in miniskirts and vinyl boots.
I winder what instrument was used on ‘Fire’ by Arthur Brown, it was pretty important to the sound of that song.
Deep Purple used organs quite a lot.
The Doors have popped up a few times on this thread, but I don’t believe Ray Manzarek played a Hammond B-3 (which has sort of become the hijacked subject). He and a number of others played Vox or Farfisa organs, which always sounded a little metalic and thin (at least to me). Think of that “bink bink bink bink” sound at the beginning of ? and the Mysterians song “96 Tears” - that’s the sound I associate with the Doors.
How in the world has this gone so far without mention of the best one so far: In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida
twickster A few years ago,I was cleaning out my father’s house and ran across his casettes of R.W. Though the sound has been a bit degraded as they’d sat for years near electronic equiptment,they were just as cool sounding as always. I must say that I still like King Arthur better. Now,I Wish I’d have had the brains to save the L.P.s
TelecontarStorm – Come to think of it, I still have it on vinyl. Maybe I should fire up the ol’ turntable.
How about Mike Oldfield’s Tubular Bells? Nothing but organ and analog synth, all 20 gloriously overblown minutes of it, IIRC.
As for modern artists using vintage organ tones, The Black Crowes use a fair amount - especially on the album
The Southern Harmony & Musical Companion
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And “grand piano . . . reed and pipe organ . . . glockenspiel . . . bass guitar . . . double speed guitar . . . two slightly distorted guitars . . . mandolin . . . Spanish guitar, and introducing accoustic guitar . . . plus — tubular bells!”
Not to mention the heavenly female choir that helps close out the 25:29.
Yes, but weren’t they all synth versions of those instruments - reproduced by organ/synth?
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No, all those instruments were the real thing.
Yea, I stand corrected - I could’ve sworn they were synth.
You learn something new everyday - thanks Walloon!
I also found it here:
http://tubular.net/discography/TubularBells2003.shtml#notesIns
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Organ music in rock?
My Ding A Ling
Actually, Deep Purple’s Lazy was the first thing that came to mind.
“Meadowlands” by Jefferson Airplane: a little-known, but really cool bit of trippy late-60s organ music. It can be found on their “Volunteers” disc. It’s basically the Soviet Union army marching music played on a full pipe organ, accompanied by a snippet of an old New York merchant hawking his wares. It’s weird, polemic and funny all at the same time.
“Ever-buddie entitled to a buy…
Ever-buddie entitled to a GUD buy…”
Ah, such a lovely image! And a second, for the Buckinghams, a talented bunch often overlooked by oldies stations.
Perhaps one of the board’s organ experts can enlighten me — I’m wondering what type of organ did the glorious bridge in Del Shannon’s Runaway?
Some organ-heavy groups from the sixties in the Northwest included Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Kingsmen and The Sonics (“She’s a Witch”)
That organ solo in Del Shannon’s Runaway? Max Crook on the The Musitron!
Damn! That’s an excellent site.
That Runaway break has echoed in my head since I first heard it more than 40 years ago
Many thanks Walloon!
There’s a nice gratuitous stereo effect in that bit where each solo instrument, as it comes in, starts on one side of the “stage” and crosses to the other, except the tubular bells, which come in BONG! in the middle. You hear it best through headphones.
As a nipper I always liked the riff in Son Of My Father (Chicory Tip), but that was a moog UIVMM, not a Hammond. Unlike many of the other reasons why I wanted to learn to play organ/keyboards, I can actually play that bit now.
Don’t know the organ, but hey-- El Chicano? “Viva Tirado, pt 1” with the hot organ by Bobby Espinosa? You can’t drive through East LA without putting on the deck. It’s the law.
Another vote for the Lee Michaels album. Just Lee on the organ and Bartholomew Smith-Frost on drums. A day and all-nighter in the studio (the liner notes called it something like “As close to live as you’d want to get without being forewarned”), and a lot of passion.
Has there been anything like it since?
Oh, and don’t forget “The Mothers of Invention Play Louie, Louie on the Royal Albert Hall Organ” 