From kaluna55@erinet.com Sat Mar 30 05:50:31 2002
Subject:Re Workin those pedals


>Not a clonewheel post per se, but last night I caught Ron Levy in
>downtown Manhattan with his band - awesome Hammond player, funk -
>blues stuff, and he's honed his chops down pretty good. If you
>haven't heard of him, I suggest you do.

>Anyway, I was watching his footwork. He lays down left-hand bass
>lines, and works his feet also, but his feet are pretty sloppy. All
>he does is stomp the pedals to the groove, and I couldn't tell the
>difference if he was hitting chord tones or not. His left hand did
>all the talking, but the feet just gave that Hammond background bass
>buzz.

>I'm basically a piano player who's interested in the Hammond sound,
>and I know a lot of you cloners have and play the real thing.

>Is this how you pedal? I've never watched anyone else, so I'm
>curious.

John,

If you want to see some footwork, I'd recommend Tony Monaco, an excellent
jazz player from Columbus. I saw him in Dayton a couple of weeks ago and he
used pedals the whole time, even for fast bebop tunes.

Larry Halpern