MLT Club Member Jung Roe
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Here is a really informative and entertaining little video on the history and legend of the Hammond Organ. Some interesting fun facts, like George Gershwin and Henry Ford are one off the very first owners of a Hammond organ. Though this video ends on the Hammond B3 legacy and does not mention the Hammond C3, apparently the only significant difference between the B3 and C3 is the cabinet design. The C3 is every bit as remarkable as the B3 in sound and performance.
Over the years, we at Keyboard Exchange International have been asked thousands of times, which is the better instrument, the B3 or the C3. The simple answer is that the only real difference is the furniture style.
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Billy Preston contributed to a number of Beatles songs with his remarkable keyboards skills. He often used a Hammond B3 organ as shown here in Let It Be.
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Hi Roger, thanks for posting these awesome organ performances. I really enjoyed the dueling organs with Rick Wakeman and Jon Lord’s Hammond! Such incredible skill. Keith Emerson is amazing, as you said playing forwards, backwards and upside down. I like how Tom Scholz gets so into it that he literally lifts that organ off the ground as he plays!
It’s quite something that the organ is so prevalent in Rock and Roll, given it is in instrument that has been around since 200 BC!
Here is Jon Lord doing Highway Star
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Hi Daryl
I’ve really come to appreciate vinyl lately ever since the Orange Vinyl. I got a new record player just so I can play Orange, and I went back and dug up many of the old precious vinyl’s from the Roe family collection I could find. My first vinyl, Walt Disney’s 3 Little Pigs I got when I was a wee little lad, my dad’s Ludwig Van Beethoven Symphony No 9 performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and conducted by legendary Herbert Von Karajan, pressed in 1964 that my dad has had since then, that I own now and listen to feeling what my dad must have felt all for all those years. Now I am giddy with joy awaiting MLT’s “WHY!” album in vinyl. WHY? is as magnificent as the 9th Symphony for me!
My latest vinyl addition today is a new used Beach Boys Concert (probably 1963/64 performance) album vinyl I was gifted by a friend. It’s a Capital reissue, but from the very faded album sleeve, it looks very vintage.
Has anyone seen the movie Equilibrium? Imagine a future dystopian emotionless world where music and art is banned because it causes emotions that is deemed a bad influence to the social order in society, and one day someone discovers an old vinyl of Beethoven’s 9th symphony and he listens to music for the very first time, and realizes this amazing beauty the living world has never experienced before!
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Just got my “Don’t Look Up” Studio Scribbles Art print today, and it is just gorgeous! Love having 3 autographs on this one, Mona, Rudi, and Lisa! The fountain pen ink shading in the handwritten lyrics look so marvelous. Now I can’t wait for my “Any Other Day” Studio Scribbles.
Please Mister Postman, look and see
Is there a letter, a letter for me
I’ve been standin’ here waitin’ Mister Postman
So patiently, for just a card, or just a letter -
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PAPA RUDI!
Us cool cats celebrate our birthdays in March! 👍😀🎂🎉
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I found this fascinating video that raises some interesting points about why music is magical from a famous music producer. I saw him in that recent interview with Paul McCartney.
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Here is some New Age piano sounds to Alaska. Music always is like pearls to a scenery.
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David, Jurgen…you guys are impressive to find this many good Alaska songs! 👍😉 I thought that would be near impossible.
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Hi Dave
The Organ sound of Procol Harum is so iconic, especially Whiter Shade of Pale, one of my favourite organ sounds in rock music. The Animals also used the organ effectively in their House Of The Rising Sun, though they did not use a Hammond in that one.
Here is MLTs wonderful performance of House Of The Rising Sun, and we can hear Papa Rudi on the organ creating some awesome organ sounds.
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Hi Dave
Nice playing by Billy Preston. I never see him singing in his days playing with the Beatles, but he can sing pretty good too. Yeah Billy was a Hammond organ musician. He also played the electric piano too.
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Hi David
That one is a very relaxing organ work for sure, great background music when you are doing something, and I did just that as I played and wrote something. Yeah, that Bach Tocatta and Fugue has often been associated with something eerie on TV. I guess that leading organ part does a have a very sombre tone to it, but it gets so beautiful. Love the counterpoint in it.
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Loving the stats David, keep them coming!!!!! I find them valuable and interesting.
And keep off those streets at night! 😉
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Hi Jurgen
Thanks for that great write up.
Like many of us here I discovered Mona and Lisa because of their amazing covers, and discovered they are the real deal, remarkable artists in their own right able to create inspired original work of their own that are incredibly moving, and stayed because of that. I think their covers and numerous compilation albums over the years grew their fan base and audience for their original work. I think with WHY? and future albums more and more new fans will discover them through their amazing originals.
As for continuing to do covers, I think as long as MLT enjoy doing them and find fulfillment in creating them, it is good because they have and will continue to grow their audience through them if they want, but their original work is the future and what will keep and grow their fan base even more, and I am sure ultimately the most fulfilling for MLT. As the new album WHY? proves yet again, MLT are an amazing talented musical powerhouse creating the best new music today. Their new music has so much emotional depth and complexity, they are in the realm of the legendary song writers and composers. The more I listen to the WHY? album and all the songs in it, the more I am drawn back to it over and over in joy and amazement. Only great art like the works of the Beatles and Beethoven can do that captivating their fans for a lifetime, and MLT’s original work is just like that. Here I go drawing a comparison! HAHA 🙂
I love their artistic philosophy of progression and never repeating themselves, which will ensure they will never be stuck creating the same music, and be pioneers of new music and the future of rock/pop.
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Hi Jurgen, thanks for that beautiful video. There are some intriguing creatures under the ocean in Alaska, like that red fish with bulging eyes. On the next Alaska Cruise I think I will do a one way up to Anchorage and then explore the parks up there, and take a boat cruise to explore some of the ocean wildlife to, I am sure lots of whales.
On a side note Alaska is also well know for King Crabs. I remember years ago experiencing these massive Alaskan King Crab legs in one of the well know Seattle seafood restaurants. The legs were so huge, you get full on just the crab legs alone. 😀
