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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

... Hammond, that is. Just listening to a live version of Clapton singing Change the World and the Hammond Organ just makes it.

Whats your favourite song with this earthy instrument featuring? Another of mine is Pandoras Box by Procol Harum.

Do you have a fave rock song that features more than a lead, bass and drums?

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"... Hammond, that is. Just listening to a live version of Clapton singing Change the World and the Hammond Organ just makes it.

Whats your favourite song with this earthy instrument featuring? Another of mine is Pandoras Box by Procol Harum.

Do you have a fave rock song that features more than a lead, bass and drums?

Loads, one of my favourites is the S&M performance from Metallica

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not rock (well it could be but....)

the Wedding March (Mendelssohn) PLAYED BACKWARDS!!!!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Loads of Deep Purple Tracks

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"... Hammond, that is. Just listening to a live version of Clapton singing Change the World and the Hammond Organ just makes it.

Whats your favourite song with this earthy instrument featuring? Another of mine is Pandoras Box by Procol Harum.

Do you have a fave rock song that features more than a lead, bass and drums?

Loads, one of my favourites is the S&M performance from Metallica

That is simply exquisite - but it's a full orchestral. I was thinking more yer Rolf Harris and a stylophone type of song (bad example, I know!)

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By *etillanteWoman
over a year ago

Whiter shade of pale

Piano Man - Billy Joel, ok not an organ but lol, piano

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Loads of Deep Purple Tracks"

your fave, featuring?

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Whiter shade of pale

Piano Man - Billy Joel, ok not an organ but lol, piano"

I love you yve xxxxx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Deep Purples Hush

Ace

And House of the rising Sun , Animals version

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Loads of Deep Purple Tracks

your fave, featuring?"

Child In Time and Highway Star

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

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"Deep Purples Hush

Ace

And House of the rising Sun , Animals version"
Wow my favourites...

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By *andKCouple
over a year ago

Norfolk

me and my filthy mind

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Deep Purples Hush

Ace

And House of the rising Sun , Animals versionWow my favourites...

xx"

Maybe i could play one or two for ya sometime , failing that , sing you a song

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

"Deep Purples Hush

Ace

And House of the rising Sun , Animals versionWow my favourites...

Maybe i could play one or two for ya sometime , failing that , sing you a song

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Sounds an awesome suggestion on a dull Monday evening.. seriously House of the RIsing Sun.. such an Oldie but wow...;-)

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

I have always assumed Baby You're A Rich Man was George on some bizarre type instrument he experimented with Ive just checked and it was Lennon on a clavioline!!

One of my fave Beatles songs thats often forgotten.

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By *orestersCouple
over a year ago

The Forest

I think the keyboard solo on the Doors' "Light my fire" is either a Hammond or a Farfisa organ.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

" I was thinking more yer Rolf Harris and a stylophone type of song "

Space Oddity has a stylophone on it

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"I think the keyboard solo on the Doors' "Light my fire" is either a Hammond or a Farfisa organ."

Mmmmmmmmm Jim Morrison half naked to the waist...

and the organ - some say its a Hammond others insist its a Vox - Im clueless xxx

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

" I was thinking more yer Rolf Harris and a stylophone type of song

Space Oddity has a stylophone on it"

Yeah.... wobble board was sadly lacking....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Nantucket Sleigh Ride, By the band Mountain relied heavily on the mighty Hammond organ….It was used at the theme for Weekend World a Sunday morning news programme yonks ago,,, I used to watch the show just for that!!!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Nantucket Sleigh Ride, By the band Mountain relied heavily on the mighty Hammond organ….It was used at the theme for Weekend World a Sunday morning news programme yonks ago,,, I used to watch the show just for that!!!

OMG I have that on cassette! Haven't thought about it for ages. Well obviously decades!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Phantom of the Opera....

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Have to reiterate Whiter Shade of Pale and the Metallica S&M concert... Mind blowing

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By *ENGUYMan
over a year ago

Hull

And what about Rick Wakeman, in "Yes" and all their tracks which featured him on, amongst other things, an Organ.

Superb!

Another expert exponent was Vangelis; too many tracks to list, but all round, excellent playing.

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

Almost any Deep Purple track with Jon Lord on.

Am suprised no one had mentieoned Bruce Springsteens E-Street band, Dan Federici (RIP) did some greta Hammond stuff on the early albumns and live

No ones mentioned Georgie Fame yet either am suprised at that as well

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

OMG I’m feeling so nostalgic here….

I’m welling up with emotion...sniff-sniff…………

Ahem, Sox wheels in the many wonder that are Klaus Wunderlich and his amazinly dextrous digits, just to add a scintillating backing track to this musical thread albiet deflty played from somewhere far beyond the silver triangle of this life…….. ting-ting

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Almost any Deep Purple track with Jon Lord on.

Am suprised no one had mentieoned Bruce Springsteens E-Street band, Dan Federici (RIP) did some greta Hammond stuff on the early albumns and live

No ones mentioned Georgie Fame yet either am suprised at that as well"

You just did

Hold Your Head Up by Argent was another of my faves also Joy to the World - Three Dog Night.

We've only had the stylophone in one Bowie hit so far!

I wonder if anyone ever played the melodica in a rock track?

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

by the way - Red Hot Chilli Peppers,

amongst others

And yes i googled it

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

as frp stylophone, Jean Michelle Jarre uses one

or at least he did when i saw him live last year

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"as frp stylophone, Jean Michelle Jarre uses one

or at least he did when i saw him live last year"

You can't really express on such a small instrument the way rockers can sink to their knees during a heavy riff. I just had a horrible mental picture of the Osmonds going 'all rock' on their song Crazy Horses. That was cringeworthy and abuse of a synthesiser!

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

plenty of abuse of synths over the years , take Trio and their use of teh casio VL-1 for example, (if you can call that a synth)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Synth-schminth!!!!.... wot you really need is.....a Theremin......

yeah baby.... thats the baby,,,, a fooki'n rock n roll Theremin.......

pah..... ya schminth-synths are so Passé now, don't ya know... init

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

Just gonna add this one, good job I read down first! lol.. Actually just made me start listening to the 17:38 live version from "Mountain Live. The Road Goes Ever On". Made just one year before Felix Pappalardi was killed.

Fantastic piece of music...

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

Yeah I was being generic re synthesiser I was emphasising more on the osmonds gannin all rock on us... shudder...

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

"Hold Your Head Up by Argent was another of my faves also Joy to the World - Three Dog Night.

OMG!! I am with Soxi.. (not biblically!)

This is so nostalgic for me. Stuff you don't forget but store away in the back of your mind...

Rod Argent. He lived in Chiswell green, St. Albans. That is where I met him back in the 70's just after "Hold Your Head Up"! I worked for a small Hire company and had to deliver to this house in Chiswell green... As the guy opened the door I thought I recognised him..

After chatting for a brief time, I shouted "Argent! Your Rod Argent! (Not a difficult assumption.. Argent was the name on my paperwork!) Met a few times after that on odd occasions...

Anyhoo, I digress... (Fookin memory lane! Got so far down it, gonna have to catch a bus back...

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

how to really abuse your organ, think the link says it all really

(hope you tube links are allowed)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTrbIvKdKo0

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By *umourCouple
over a year ago

Rushden

Thijs Van Leer.. Focus

Another Hammond organ exponant! Some fantastic track from the 70's like Hocus Pocus and Sylvia...

Back to the music folder... More to play!

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By *eighleedsMan
over a year ago

leeds

"Thijs Van Leer.. Focus

Another Hammond organ exponant! Some fantastic track from the 70's like Hocus Pocus and Sylvia...

Back to the music folder... More to play!

you got me at it now i love those two tracks but aint heard em in ages

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

See... music makes the world go around. Loved the Argent anecdote

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