From tonysounds@yahoo.com Wed Apr 21 18:28:22 2004
Subject:Re: Soundside Mods to VK8m


Funny how jazz enthusiasts and other "knowledgeable and toneworthy B3 players" can use 867000000 and their own set of cliches, but yet because it's "jazz", they're not seen as cliches or overused sounds because they're appropriate for the music (because they're playing typically without a bassist, their drummer uses brushes and tippy-taps his trap set, and the guitarist only uses the neck pickup on his hollowbody guitar which is plugged into a Polytone amplifier incapable of generating any overdrive or sweet distortion. Yet rock or blues Hammond players who not only are "toneworthy" players who have developed a set of registrations (like 8088, 8888, 080000000) to compete with their particular music's orchestrations (drummer who pounds the skins, an electric bassist and a guitarist who would never dream of playing without some kind of tube amp with volume!, not to mention vocalists which jazzers generally dont have to deal with) but also tend to vary those registrations in the middle
of phrases more than most jazz players, would somehow be deemed an inferior musician at best.

Let's look at some of those Hammond players, as opposed to musicians....Booker T, Keith Emerson, Seth Justman, Mark Stein, Lee Michaels, Jon Lord....jeez, you're right, these guys arent musicians!

:-)
T





I use the term "musician" as mostly vintage
>jazz enthusiasts and IMO otherwise knowledgable and toneworthy B3
>players will use 867000000 and the like as registrations versus just
>pulling out 888, 8888, 88888, etc to play like certain of our most
>idolized and copied Hammond icons - maybe they play good and have a
>natural talent for the keys, melody, rhythm - but dumber than a bag
>of hammers.. (rich too $?) heh-heh (no names, no flames, just havin'
>fun) Wj
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