From bcarson@bitstream.net Thu Sep 22 15:02:48 2005
Subject:Re: Was "Roundabout" Hammond Solo-now BLOODROCK

The latest Shemekia Copeland album, produced by Steve Cropper, has Felix
Cavelliere playing Hammond on several tracks.

Your list is pretty much my list except I have no idea who Bloodrock is. Did
they skip over Minneapolis?

Bill

Bill Carson
President
FourEyes Creative, Inc.
Minneapolis, Minnesota
612-270-1613


> Hi All,
>
>>OK all you "Classic Rock" wanna be Hammond emulators. Running out of
>>Hammond based material? Check out the classic album "Bloodrock 3". I just
>>picked this up on CD at Amazon. Bloodrock opened up for GFR way back in
>>the day and we were all blown away by this band and Jim Hill the Hammond
>>player. Plus their guitar player was "really fast" as we used to say!
>>Anyway, no mid-70"s Seattle rock band was any good if you didn't play
>>"Jessica" or Kool-Aid Kids". I had forgotten how cool this band was
>>actually. And how much I learned from Jim Hill! The Hammond tone is
>>really great. Pretty clean with just a touch of grit. They had the big
>>vocal sound like Uriah Heep/TDN as well. Jessica is a great dance song and
>>your guitar player will like it. Kool-Aid Kids has a big slow down in the
>>middle with great reverb-drenched Hammond solo building up to the guitar
>>solo blazing back at fast tempo. "Breach of Lease" is the "DOA" type song
>>on this album with the heavy guitar riff and after the
> space
> y verses with the reverb-drench Hammond. "DOA" which you all might
> remember is on another Bloodrock album. Oh yeah, those were the "BIG
> Hammond sound in rock" days! Anyway check it out!
>
> Boy, this takes me back. No mid-70s western NY band was any good without
> playing Jessica and Kool-Aid Kids -- even if you only had a Farfisa and a
> Uni-Vibe like yours truly. I completely wore out a 12" of both Bloodrock
> 2 and Bloodrock 3.
>
> Unfortunately, no one in New England seems to have even heard of them.
>
> My early organ influences were, in rough order of importance:
>
> 1. Greg Rolie (Santana)
> 2. Jimmy Greenspoon (Three Dog Night)
> 3. Jim Hill (Bloodrock)
> 4. Felix Cavelliere (Rascals)
> 5. Jon Lord (Deep Purple)
>
> Everybody else -- even prog-rock heavyweights like Keith Emerson, Rick
> Wakeman, and Mark Stein -- were way back in the pack. With the exception
> of Mr. Lord, none of those five is a real technical monster, but all of
> them knew how to make a Hammond sound like ... well, a Hammond!
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
> Still playing Hush and AWSoP in a rock band -- and pissing off bandmates
> by dropping into the riff from DOA now and then ... )
>
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