From tonysounds@yahoo.com Tue Jan 02 17:21:05 2007
Subject:Re: Organist on Sam Brown's "Stop". was Re: Your Top Ten

Rabbit of course has been the keyboardist for the Who for 20 years.
T

kziss71 wrote: Hi Simon and Dave.
I was originally wondering if Jon Lord was the organist on Sam
Brown's "Stop" because it had like a Jon Lord-like character to it
but a few years ago I saw the Sam Brown album at a shop and I looked
at the album credits and if I remember correctly it said that it was
John "Rabbit" Bundrick who played the organ solo.

Around sixteen years ago a local music TV program showed a video
clip of Sam Brown and her band performing "Stop" live on stage and
the organist who looked like John "Rabbit" Bundrick was playing a
1950's C3 with the quatrefoils on the cabinet sides and the C3 organ
tone sounded similar to that of the distinctive sounding organ on
the "Stop" organ solo on the album so I assume that it might have
been the same organ as that used on the album.

Interestingly John "Rabbit" Bundrick was the real organist who
played the Hammond organ in the mid 1990's comedy movie starring
Billy Connelly called "Still Crazy" which was about a bumbling
1970's Heavy Rock band called "Strange Fruit" who reformed back
together in the 1990's. In the movie the actor Stephen Rea played the
organist who played a 1950's C3 with quatrefoils on the cabinet sides
but John "Rabbit" Bundrick was the organist who really played the
Hammond organ on the soundtrack.
The Hammond organ sound in this movie also had a distinctive
sounding nice fat overdiven sound so I wonder whether it was the
same organ that John "Rabit" Bundrick used on Sam Brown's "Stop".
All the best.
Kon