MLT Club Member Chris Weber
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I’m from Michigan, but I was driving 9W last summer; my nephew, who lives in Albany, was getting married in Poughkeepsie. Not as far north as that sign.
In a couple of weeks, I’ll be in Tarrytown at my niece’s wedding. Even further south.
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I’m remembering Nights in White Satin reading this.
Cold hearted orb
That rules the night
Removes the colours
From our sight
Red is gray and
Yellow white
But we decide
Which is right
And
Which is an IllusionClara Bow, in person or a colorized photo, could appear in color or bw, depending on ambient light. Teens don’t use their bw vision as often as they did millennia ago, but probably still use it daily.
I think it’s just another tool for the artist. Almost like timbre to a musician.
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Yeah, heard that on the radio last night. He was great.
Lots of memories of listening to him and learning and playing his songs back when I was in high school and just started playing guitar.
If You Could Read My Mind was probably my favorite, but I remember playing Carefree Highway back then too.
When I started listening to Mona and Lisa, I realized it had been a long time since I’d done much listening to someone just playing acoustic guitar and singing. When I was younger I listened to people like Lightfoot, or Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, Dan Fogelberg, people like that. But I had gotten away from it.
Maybe it’s more a reflection of my age than anything else, but it seems like we have lost so many greats in recent years.
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When I was growing up, we had a big stereo in the living room. One of those that was furniture first and stereo second. One day I came in and saw that album laying on top of it. I’d never seen or heard of it before. Actually, I don’t think I’d ever seen any Who albums before – I was in grade school.
I picked it up and looked at it.
Tommy
the who
I thought the album was named “Tommy the who”.
Hey, I was just a kid.
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One reason those vids look interesting is that there were 200 different automakers in America in 1920.
As far as safety goes, I did some looking at New York City.
In 2019, there were 121 pedestrian deaths.
In 1920, there were 114 pedestrian deaths.
Not that much difference, but there were more than 3.3 times the number of people living there in 2019 than a century earlier.
You guys are right, Jung and Tim. It was dangerous crossing the street back then.
But on that video, and so many others, you look at it and can tell it’s been colorized. I don’t think that helps.
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In the song the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon mentions Mariners’ Church in Detroit where every year they ring the bells 29 times for the sailors lost on that ship.
Yesterday they rang it 30 times. Once for each sailor, plus once for Gordon Lightfoot.
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Fred,
99 Luft Balloons is definitely known in America.
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Someday, way in the future, that prop will have it’s own spot in the MonaLisa Twins Museum in Liverpool.
One More Time is my favorite video. Of course, any video that has multiple Monas and Lisas in it has a big advantage.
In the middle of that dancing Lisa appears to get flipped up in the air, and you don’t get a really clear view of it. I always wondered if there was a stunt double doing that. 😉
But it can’t have been more dangerous than jumping out of an airplane or running a 1/2 marathon through a Welsh bog, right?
I think Lisa should have won Best Actress Oscar for that, and Mona should have gotten Best Supporting Actress. That was a great video.
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I think you can tell it’s a B-3/C-3 by the sound. I mean, if it was easy to imitate that sound, why would anyone want to mess with a box that weighs 400 pounds?
But this was for music from the ’50s to the ’70s. In the ’80s the first polyphonic synths and samplers came out. Synths can generate a sound that sounds organish, and samplers use recordings of the real thing. So then it’s harder to be sure of what you’re listening to. A sample can be a recording of an actual Hammond. But even if it is, there’s still a difference in how it can be played, for example.
And there are other organs that sound similar too. Some with the Hammond name on them. But there are a lot of factors in something like this. I remember studying human perception in college, lots of things can affect this. I mean, a CD and an MP3 are quite different, can you tell which is which?
When you mentioned Three Dog Night, I figured it was a B-3 based on how it sounded and when it was recorded, plus like Tomás said, Greenspoon was known for playing one.
I am not an organ player. I have no doubt Rudi could tell you a lot more than I can about them, since he’s a pro and I’m not. But I do think the C-3 he has now is still the gold standard for that sound.
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Jacki,
If you click on your name in the upper right corner of the page, then click on Comments, you can see what comments you’ve made.
I sometimes check on what I posted too.
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Joey played at the Detroit International Jazz Festival a number of times, and not too long ago. I saw him there, but didn’t know much about him otherwise.
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https://bsumc.blogspot.com/2013/06/rockin-with-hammond-organ.html
That link says it was a B-3. fwiw.
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Maximum R&B.
If there was a “hit” on that album, that was it. All time classic rock anthem.
Most of my life, I said the best live rock album of all time was Live at Leeds – another album with minimalist artwork on the cover. And lots of competition to be best live album ever. But hard to argue with a band that had arguably the best rhythm section in R&R history.
Mona and Lisa said they saw The Who in Australia. That must have been awesome for them. They were pretty young.
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You grow up, learn a few things, and you…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHhrZgojY1Q
and nope, that’s not a Hammond organ…
