From rmaccrea@verizon.net Fri Sep 05 07:05:33 2008
Subject:Re: A Hammond that 'talks' OT

It's not meant to be super high quality music. It is a very interesting novelty that "speaks" to
the enormous possibilities of the Hammond B3. If they could do that, what could we do? With music we don't do just what has a point. Its fun. Its experimental.

> I don't get it either. It just sounds cheezy to me too, no matter
> what language it's in, no difference = weird and what's the point?
>
> The guys I really think are special are the ones who don't use the
> expression pedal on a B3 type console. They just set the pedal once
> as a volume baseline, then all the volume and control come
> from "hands on" constant manipulating of the drawbars - Loud, soft,
> varying pitches during songs, near zero volume at the end of songs,
> but manuals/drawbars played entirely by hand. I think Al Kooper liked
> to play like this. Pedals could be played the same way. Now that's
> not a novelty, that could still be useful today. Wj
>