From ccmacdon@rogers.com Fri Nov 02 05:39:34 2018
Subject:Re: OT.. Get Blown Away.

A few things.. first awesome performance!!!

Over the years, I learned a fair number of difficult classic rock organ solos/songs.. Green Eyed Lady, Hold Your Head Up, Foreplay/Longtime, and a few more, and I could play them pretty well, pretty much note for note.. I also learnedly number of ELP songs.. Hoedown (which I played 6 nights a week with a couple of bands in bars in my youth), The Sheriff (just because it was a fun song) and probably another ELP tune or two, and it seemed that if I really liked a song, I learned it.. THIS was the exception.. I loved this tune and I learned parts of it, but I just could not master the left hand lick (at that time I didn’t have the left/right independence). So I ran out of patience on this one.

Now, I hate to burst anyone’s bubble, but these guys are not performing this song live.. First of all, you can’t get that sound out of a spinet organ without a lot of processing, and that would start with micing the leslie.. I can’t see any mics on the leslie.. Furthermore, if you look closely, in some images of the drummer you can see the spinet organ, the leslie, and the moog sitting against the wall to the drummers right, without anyone playing it (and it’s highly unlikely that this configuration is perfectly duplicated in this small studio).. lastly, I’m pretty sure that that organ sound is coming from the Korg Kronos, which has some awesome ELP programs that came with the updated Korg CX3 engine (sounds that I am pretty familiar with).. Lastly, the keyboard player plays an ascending run up the kronos keyboard and it sounds identical to what we hear when he appears to play the spinet.

So all that said, this crazy clone nut says it’s fake, and we’re not hearing a Hammond organ, it’s a Kronos CX3. BUT whether the video is faked or not, the performance is awesome.. and I’m definitely jealous that this young guy can play this so well!!

Thanks for posting Norm!!

Craig

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