From lpnalda@gmail.com Tue May 25 22:28:54 2010
Subject:Re: Ventilator Warning

True it was slim pickings but for me a fun subject. I think "Black Coffee in Bed was played on an Original (analog) cx3, Too bad (ska band) the Selector didn't have more hits, their keyboardist used an m100. Also Patti Smith had a hammond player as well in her band. "She" from "Waves" had some that even sounded like registration changes being done as well. I am pretty sure the two Lena Lovich songs are real hammond. One band that had me really fooled (though they never had any "hits"), was a band from Japan called "The Plastics". I'm still not sure they weren't using a yamaha combo organ tweaked from the get go, as every video I can find of them looked like that. Boy sure did sound real on their album though.

> True, but some of those "Hammond" sounds were actually a synth set up to
> sound roughly like a B-3. I've always suspected this of Freeze Frame;
> the percussion just sounds kind of un-Hammond to my ears. If you want
> to talk real Hammond, think Crowded House (Don't Dream It's Over,
> Something So Strong).
>
> That said, a half dozen songs over a decade is pretty slim pickings! :-(
>
> Regards,
>
> -BW
>
> Bruce Wahler
> Ashby Solutions.com^(TM)
> bruce@ashbysolutions.com
> http://music.ashbysolutions.com
>
> On 5/24/2010 5:47 PM, Pete Nalda wrote:
>> Actually, Hammonds weren't totally Passe in the '80's. What about j.Gails Bands' "Freeze Frame", and a couple of songs on the Cure's Kiss album featured hammond sounds. I think even by the time of Elvis Costello's "Imperial Bedroom" Steve Naive was running his Vox Continental through a Leslie (or maybe was even using a hammond). Also Lena Lovich ("Home", and "Lucky Number" both featured Hammond.