From bruce@ashbysolutions.com Fri Sep 06 16:12:25 2002
Subject:Re: OT (Another) Leslie 3-d Question - Steppenwolf

All,

Goldy McJohn used different Leslies during his career. "Born To Be Wild," "The Pusher" and others were obviously recorded with a single-rotor Leslie. I've seen articles that claimed it was just a 147 with the upper rotor and crossover disabled, but he might very well have used a Dual Showman or an old Ampeg -- they were pretty loud. OTOH, listen to the break in "Magic Carpet Ride," and you'll hear two rotors speeding up and slowing down at different speeds.

Before you go and dissect your 147 or 122, though, remember that his sound was unique -- a sort of "amps on 11, can't we go to 12?" tone that suited their music well. I can't see myself doing Greg Rolie, G-E-Lady, or even early Deep Purple with one, though.

Regards,

-BW

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At 06:28 PM 9/6/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>couldn't tell. most of the lights were on John Kay and it was a small dark
>club. in fact we tried to stay for the second show and hid in the bathroom
>but we got found out. i'll bet if you get an old tube amp like a bandmaster
>or something, turn it up to ten and unplug your top rotor you'll get the
>sound or close to it.
>In a message dated 9/7/02 6:04:13 AM, rockwithxs@aol.com writes:
>
><< > saw steppenwolf in an LA club years ago. it was only one leslie and if
>im
>> not mistaken his sound was a guitar amp thru a leslie with the top rotor
>> unplugged...
>>
>Please, tell me more. What exactly was he using when you saw them?
>>>