No mention of the legendary Billy Preston? Preston was definitely one of the greatest Hammond organists of all time. May He Rest In Power!
@RichardMNixon-zh6uz
2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely. Billy, Keith, Goldy, Vinnie Crane...lots! But, I think this is more of the influencers rather than the influence. Oh well. Good to know there are those who know of Billy Preston and folks of his trade.
@kegginstructure
2 жыл бұрын
Then, of course, the late Earl Grant was a notable Hammond player from the 50s. And there was Jimmie Smith, Ethel Smith (no relation to Ethel), ... oh, heck, too many to name - and not all of them named Smith.
@nadimovitch9237
8 ай бұрын
Larry Young too please
@EtzEchad
6 жыл бұрын
I love Hammond organ. It has a unique sound that defined music in the 60s.
@daeone1514
9 ай бұрын
It’s very crazy how Mr Hammond made this just as a gimmick and it’s so legendary. We still love Hammond organ.
@mailomail
11 жыл бұрын
The Hammond Organ sound is amazing. I think, this is the most beautiful instrument in the world.
@audiodood
2 жыл бұрын
It’s definitely up there ❤️
@KS-cp6bj
4 жыл бұрын
My Mother was a professional musician. she owned a B3, a A100, and a Grande The B3 only had 1 service call in over 25 years of service. Amazing since it was constantly being moved. The Grande sat at home and always had some problem. Can't beat the tone generator and a leslie highboy.
@bertskoi
4 жыл бұрын
I was going to comment, "I hope they don't go through the whole short documentary WITHOUT mentioning Ethel Smith!" - and RIGHT at the moment that I started to realize they weren't going to mention Ethel Smith, the narrator MENTIONS ETHEL SMITH! & briefly shows her in action. Some of her music videos showcasing her work have been available on youtube since youtube started in '05, thankfully. She was as an electric a talent as was the amazing Hammond Organs she rythmically played on! Thanks for the upload.
@garys8990
8 жыл бұрын
The Hammond is fantastic and unsurpassed and why I have three of them. Hammond forever! Thanks for posting.
@charleskuckel3173
4 жыл бұрын
I would've anticipated Keith Emerson being prominently featured in a HAMMOND Organ retrospective. He was referred to as the Jimi Hendrix of the organ. I saw him TRASH his Hammond organ while performing Rondo with ELP. Awe inspiring!
@sottoblue6510
4 жыл бұрын
There's so many great players. I think they were focusing on the hallmarks that made it a staple in music, so you have to get to at least Jimmy Smith, and then Booker T was just one of the ones plucked off a list of styles that grew from there. Procal Haram was picked not because of virtuosity, but because the line is so recognizable. And I think the Greg Rollie thing from Santana was shown at Woodstock, I think, to point out that the Hammond was there at seminal moments in music history. Emerson was amazing and groundbreaking, no doubt, just harder to quantify in a 5 second sound byte.
@charleskuckel3173
4 жыл бұрын
@@sottoblue6510 I agree with your assessment. However, there's NO doubt that Keith Emerson revolutionized the use of the Hammond organ and elevated it to a lead instrument in his hands. IF the video had even a mention of him with a still photograph, it would be sufficient as well as an acknowledgement of his contributions to the genre.
@wdilks
4 жыл бұрын
@@charleskuckel3173 Yes, for his genre. Sotto Blue...you have a great handle.
@danattkisson962
3 жыл бұрын
All I can say is Knife-edge! Oh my god I’ll never forget that show... Eastown Theater Detroit with....ELP and Yes
@RichSzabo1
4 жыл бұрын
Joey DeFrancesco incredible on this instrument, saw him twice live in small clubs, blew me away.
@LaFayta
4 жыл бұрын
Joey should have bolts sticking out of both sides of his neck cause he's a monster on the B3!😎
@Fresh-tw7ev
4 жыл бұрын
Tony Monaco is an accomplished B3 master as well!
@IwshIcldstrtover
5 жыл бұрын
Who can forget the heavy Hammond sound in Gimme some Lovin' by The Spencer Davis group? That was , I believe, the first time the organ was used in a rock song with that super beefy sound it produced in that song. In Karn Evil 9 Third Impression by Emerson, Lake and Palmer, Keith Emerson, by far, wrote the absolute best Hammond solo ever, with that beefy, aggressive sound. He pushed it to the limit, as he did everything he touched in keyboards.
@DarrenWalley
9 ай бұрын
Yes, you're right....what a song that is, it's incredible. 😁
@tubefixxer
5 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget Greg Allman & the Allman Brothers had so much of their sound with a B3!!
@russellbvi
12 жыл бұрын
Grace Potter said was inspired to play the B3 by Billy Preston. RIP Billy,you were one of the best ! Grace loves her B3 and always does many classic rock covers including a smoking cover of Cortez the Killer with Joe Satrani !.
@spuds6423
4 жыл бұрын
Not only is Grace talented, she is awesomenally Hot!!!😄😄😄
@TheEDNC
3 жыл бұрын
Just try carrying one of these around from venue to venue! As a roadie during the 70’s, I nearly snapped my back in half moving this thing around.... but the sound was worth it! Thanks for the video 👍
@vincenzonapoles4371
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for bringing the B3 to the masses!
@RishonaCampbell
2 жыл бұрын
Yeah I was thinking about this too. How did bands tour with these things? Or maybe they just got a local supplier to bring them to each show.
@TheEDNC
2 жыл бұрын
@@RishonaCampbell Rarely that was the case... Actually it was pure roadie muscle power, and when a venue had no elevator or escalator, trying to carry a B3 or the heavier B2 up one or two flights of stairs was enough to pop you eyes from their sockets
@jgowin66
4 жыл бұрын
The late, great Goldy McJohn, of Steppenwolf, on "Magic Carpet Ride", and Al Kooper on Dylan's "Like A Rolling Stone" are both outstanding examples of the amazing Hammond at it's best usage.
@BKFan342
3 жыл бұрын
The most majestic sounding instrument ever created. Societies should treat old hammond organs like they treat ancient artifacts. They need to be preserved and maintained so people in the future can hear it forever
@LapuenteJuanCa
Жыл бұрын
totally dude!!!
@pellapaigeaah7579
4 күн бұрын
Agreed 💯. I often say, If God created anything, he most definitely created the Hammond Organ lol 🤣 🥰
@Twobeers1
4 жыл бұрын
In the late 60's I & a few others formed a folk rock band in our local church. We performed the Sunday noon mass, after our 4th Sunday we had the church packed, standing room only with about 800 people. The church had this huge Hammond organ with a Lesley that stood over 6' tall & the big foot pedal things. We loved the sound of that organ. We had the whole church bopin, Jump ahead about 3 months, we arrive at the church to find that our beloved Hammond was sold & replaced by a fancy electric piano by the churches choir director. We were pissed to say the least, we were never consulted, nor did we here any talk about replacing it. It was our service that packed people in, not the choirs service.
@dennymcfastlane3159
9 жыл бұрын
At 13:32 Hammond and Leslie...A Match Made in Heaven!!!
@beatz04
6 жыл бұрын
The grandfather of a friend of mine invented the Clavinet (and the Pianet as well) while working at the Hohner company. He is over 90 now and still invents new stuff. They should make a documentary about him and the Clavinet as well, me thinks. Afterall, it had significant impact on the sound of funk, r&b and soul.
@wdilks
4 жыл бұрын
Who is "they"?
@stewartnicol3028
4 жыл бұрын
The Fender Stratocaster was made legendary by Jimi Hendrix. The Hammond geniuses were obviously Jimmy Smith, etc etc. However, as a legendary LEAD Musical instrument, the Hammond was taken into Legend by Keith Emerson.
@ramsesstafford4640
2 жыл бұрын
That still would be the incredible Jimmy Smith.
@PaulTheSkeptic
9 жыл бұрын
If you like jazz organ, go check out a guy called Lonnie Smith. He's a Sikh so he often looks a bit unusual but he plays the most amazing jazz organ.
@RocknJazzer
8 жыл бұрын
+Paul TheSkeptic - nah....larry young is the man. and lonnie aint sikh or a doctor...its all an image
@B3burner
6 жыл бұрын
Paul TheSkeptic >>> I saw LS at the Boom Boom Room in San Francisco, and you’re right... he did not disappoint. He has a more open drawbar style that is unusual amongst jazzers.
@B3burner
6 жыл бұрын
progjazzfusion >>> Yes Larry Young had an incredible pure tone that is very hard to describe but beautiful. The first song I was aquatinted with was “African Blues” off the *Young Blues* album. (Sept 30, 1960- Englewood Cliffs, NJ) What a hell of an album! “Nica’s Dream” another favorite of mine. Thanks for mentioning him... I just had to dust off the CD & give it a spin right now! 😎
@williamspeakmancherry4435
6 жыл бұрын
Yes, Lonnie is great for sure.
@briangreene7085
6 жыл бұрын
you look weird to someone, as do we all, and so sayth the good lord........all hail Trump haha
@craignehring
2 жыл бұрын
The sound of the Hammond with the Leslie speaker cabinet is still rocking the music world. Truly an electro - mechanical marvel The lubrication system is very cool
@charlesarmstrong5292
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this most enlightening expose of that iconic instrument. Been around them most of my life only to find how little I really knew about them.
@DrLumpy
7 ай бұрын
When you're a professional musician (other than organ) and you show up at a gig with a B3 player, it's like landing on another planet. The organ has command of the universe. Sure it plays the bass, rhythm, comping, and melody, all in about thirteen different voices. But then it adds all those rumbles, swells, crashes, explosions, barks and all that other stuff we love. Us poor solo instrumentalists sit on the side and wait for the organ player to have lunch so we can solo. After the concert, people go home and talk about "That guy that played the heck out of the organ. And I think there was another guy on stage too". Thanks, Mr Hammond
@jonkern9503
9 жыл бұрын
We just bought a new house and it had an old Hammond M down in the den. The previous owner said it didn't work and he couldn't even give it away. He was going to haul it to the dump before we moved in. I told him to leave it. After a few days of oiling, it fired up! So far, everything works but one bass pedal and it's got one dry bearing I need to track down. I suppose I should learn how to play the organ now.
@undeadJazz
9 жыл бұрын
Jon Kern AWESOME!!!!
@exoticcar5482
9 жыл бұрын
Lucky!
@mongolikejazz
6 жыл бұрын
Lucky you. A friend told me a story about a guy who went to a garage sale and bought an electric guitar for $5.00. The guitar was given to the homeowner's son as a gift, and I guess he lost interest and left it behind when he went off to college. Turned out it was a Fender Stratocaster.
@craigcaver4051
6 жыл бұрын
Big C What's so special about a Strat? I guess the fact that he paid 5 dollars but I guarantee it wasn't an oversight. Probably a made in Mexico or Asia Stratocaster.
@craigcaver4051
6 жыл бұрын
Jon Kern The notes are the same as the piano.
@JimmyRJump
4 жыл бұрын
A Hammond retrospective without mentioning Deep Purple's Jon Lord is sacrilege.
@jimmymurphy7789
4 жыл бұрын
AMEN, Brother.
@bzbzob
3 жыл бұрын
He did play a DP riff though...
@treytrapanibackup4655
3 жыл бұрын
Tony Banks as well
@TheMetalChannelNZ
3 жыл бұрын
Or Keith Emerson!
@cassam
3 жыл бұрын
Ken Hensley, Tony Kaye, etc
@HighCrystal
12 жыл бұрын
Been in love with the sound of the Hammond since I was 15 years old. I was lucky enough to own a C3 at one point but had to get rid of it when I got divorced. To me these guys, Keith Emerson, Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff, Richard Groove Holmes, Joey DeFrancesco and, ladies, Barbara Dennerlein, are and have been heroes my whole life. Tx for this upload.
@sbingham1979
5 жыл бұрын
This is so interesting! I just went to a live concert where the Delvon LaMarr Trio was playing -- they are a band out of Seattle -- Delvon plays the Hammond, and it was this big wooden beauty of an instrument. He was so good on it that I became interested in it - your video is so cool with the old footage - thanks for posting this!
@LoganCharlesII
5 жыл бұрын
7:13 "Let's go below the border for some South American jive."
@RMoribayashi
6 жыл бұрын
In the 80's you could pick up a used Hammond organ for a less than $1000, especially the C3 whose solid panels made it just a little harder to gig with. I knew about electrical circuitry and worried that buying an instrument that might be over 20 years old was a bad investment. The new keyboard I bought for nearly two grand was obsolete in five years and the company that made them went under. Hammonds are still going strong. Oops.
@RMoribayashi
5 жыл бұрын
@cindykrista New can also be better. Today's emulators can create nearly any sound and still have enough power left enough room on the computer for a complete mixing station.
@RMoribayashi
5 жыл бұрын
@cindykrista I'm not trying to get into an argument, I think analog and digital have their places. Sound reinforcement is way out of my wheelhouse but I've heard both great digital rooms and lousy analog ones and vice versa. Back in the day tape was the best you could do for home (yes, better than vinyl) but most people couldn't afford reel-to-reel decks or metal cassette decks, let alone the few pre-recorded reel-to-reel albums out there. They just had cheap walkman knockoffs or 8-Track players in their cars that sounded as bad as they were cheap. Today more people have access to better sound than ever, including a reviving vinyl market. If only record companies stopped over-compressing the life out of it. BTW, that keyboard I passed up a B3 for was an ARP 2600 analog synth. A lot of fun to play but not a practical thing to use in a small band.
@RMoribayashi
5 жыл бұрын
@cindykrista My ARP 2600 was no lightweight at around 60lbs. I know that's only 1/5th of a B3 but remember it the next time you run into that old video of Edgar Winter wearing the 2600's 20+lb keyboard section like a guitar. Yes, I thought about putting a guitar strap on mine and no, I wasn't that dumb. Just sitting it on my lap made my legs sore. 😉😁
@charlieross-BRM
3 жыл бұрын
@cindykrista I stare at the guts of a Hammond and think if someone is good at restoring the old mechanical pinball machines they'd have a good shot at figuring out the guts of a Hammond organ. To me they are both very electro-mechanical whirly-jig hoojackapivvies. I love them both :)
Жыл бұрын
Hammond organ is eternal! 💎
@dylanjeffers9257
11 жыл бұрын
Awesome... I'm a bass player, but I gotta say the sound of a B3 has gotta be one of my favourite sounds ever.
@jeronunkoffunk9437
4 жыл бұрын
Awesome little documentary, although a percussionist, I always love the Hammond organ
@tomcarto6401
5 жыл бұрын
Just to set the record straight on terminology, the Leslie speaker does not implement VIBRATO. It actually provides TREMOLO. There is a vibrato setting on the B3 - but not through the Leslie. Vibrato is frequency (pitch) modulation. Tremolo is amplitude (volume or amplitude) modulation. The spinning horns change the amplitude - NOT the frequency.... It is common to use the Vibrato setting (through the B3 signal) to the Leslie (adding tremolo). Just sayin' - the professionals should know this.
@TuneStunnaMusic
5 жыл бұрын
Youre right, and good catch that the leslie does tremolo, but you still get the slight doppler effect with the top horns as well as tremolo. So it kinda sounds like a slight pitch modulation, which is why the sound is so popular, dont you think? I still have to find a video on how Leslie got this radical idea in the first place.
@Daaremikkel
4 жыл бұрын
@@TuneStunnaMusic And some phase shift.
@BertGrink
4 жыл бұрын
@@TuneStunnaMusic Your remark about the doppler effect is correct; it _does_ provide a subtle shift in pitch as the horns move closer to the listener and subsequently further away. In fact, there is both pitch, phase, and volume modulation when the Leslie rotates, and that is what gives the Leslie its unique sound.
@LTJR.
4 жыл бұрын
my super reverb has tremolo, my Stratocaster has vibrato. I've owned Leslie 16"s & 18"s the Vibratone I think it's called. playing through mahogany cab 122 I think was the model, is a whole lotta different (ha) In the top, the horn spinning only has sound coming from half of it. the other side of horn is dummy, to Accentuate Doppler/Phase shift. on bottom, speaker 15'' is static with vented cover that spins opposite direction. at different speeds, with a ramp up and down effect... it all comes together to make not a trem or vibrato, but a Leslie effect is it not?
@IamDoctorJekyll
4 жыл бұрын
@@TuneStunnaMusic -- I read that Laurens Hammond said "I never intended for my organ to sound like that.". Too bad, dude... it's ruled for 70+ years I gather...
@farshimelt
4 жыл бұрын
My father had a Hammond & Leslie, in his house, in the late 40's. i remember musician friends coming over on Sundays to jam. Everybody loved that sound. Also, don't forget Milt Buckner, Brother Jack Mcduff & Ethel Smith.
@lorentat
3 жыл бұрын
They forgot about one person, that's Billy Preston
@johnw2026
5 жыл бұрын
I'm more a pianist than an organist, but any opportunity i get to play a Hammond of any model, i take it. First played one in church at the age of 12 or 13, and i've been hooked ever since!
@bluzplayer1
13 жыл бұрын
OUTSTANDING - Thanks for sharing! It helps me understand why I own a B3,C3,M3. XK3 C, XK1 and SIX Leslies!
@warrenwilson4818
4 жыл бұрын
Nine years late, but I'm glad I found this. Great! (dec. 2019)
@gj8683
5 жыл бұрын
One of most interesting videos I've come across in the KZitem Universe. Thanks for posting!
@2dasimmons
10 жыл бұрын
The Hammond B3 KING is Jimmy Smith. Hands down. RIP James Oscar Smith.
@Babyboomer67
7 жыл бұрын
together with Jimmy McGriff, don't forget him. there are several other kings as Lee Morgan and others
@gumby909
7 жыл бұрын
There are kings & queens, of virtually everything but yeah, James Oscar Smith remains the undisputed king of the Hammond.
@2dasimmons
7 жыл бұрын
Agreed! He really was the master of the Hammond B3 organ. There is a magnificent album you might like to listen to: THE DYNAMIC DUO- Jimmy Smith with Wes Montgomery, Beautiful.
@craigcaver4051
6 жыл бұрын
Yes the Dynamic duo. Two of my favorite musicians on their respective instruments!
@bumblerock4048
6 жыл бұрын
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@StanKindly
11 жыл бұрын
Jon Lord was the first to introduce distortion to the B3. Funny to hear this guy play Smoke On The Water... sans distortion :)
@rabtab9495
4 жыл бұрын
Lord usually played a C-3, not a B-3, but they are the same organ except for the wooden cabinet. He also didn't use a Leslie that much, but would often run it through a Fender Twin Reverb or a Marshall. Trivia: he got the "C" he toured with from Christine McVie of Fleetwood Mac back when. :-)
@danielschoen8402
3 жыл бұрын
Funny that one of the most famous guitar riffs in history is actually played by a Hammond organ!
@StanKindly
3 жыл бұрын
@@danielschoen8402 ..well Ritchie Blackmore is playing the riff on guitar as well 🎶
@StanKindly
3 жыл бұрын
@@rabtab9495 Jon also played the piano in You Really Got Me
@cornucopia8591
3 жыл бұрын
@@StanKindly as well as brainwashed
@klieglite
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much for this. full of historical facts about an instrument just as iconic as a fender strat. only a Hammond sounds like a Hammond...……………………………..awesome!
@manifestgtr
5 жыл бұрын
I’m a guitar player by trade. It’s my main passion and always will be. But I also own 3 hammonds....a b3, a c2 and an a100. There’s something completely unique and living about the Hammond organ. It’s the steam locomotive of modern musical instruments. There’s a certain magic to the sights, smells and transcendent sounds that can be matched by no other instrument. You have this whirling, breathing thing in front of you and this beautiful, spinning speaker next to you. There’s no other experience like it in music...it’s very, VERY easy to get bitten by that bug.
@scottsheehan9890
4 жыл бұрын
my fav hammond b3 player is and always will be Greg Allman.
@danaturner8354
10 жыл бұрын
hate to say, the Hammond model goes back to 1933. I worked at a music store and we got one in and had an inspection date of October 3, 1933. it was a model A serial number 320 built by the Hammond Clock Company. I worked at the music store as an electornic technician for 15 years.i have worked on many Hammond organs and other organs out there. just my 2 cents worth.
@DeedsResearcher
4 жыл бұрын
I have a Hammond H-111 that is...currently... not functional. A so-called "technician" came to my house to repair it...and that was last June! The unit needed [arts, and he "thought" he had them when he made his return trip. Instead, he needed to take one of the main units out of the cabinet because it supposedly needed to have all of the capacitors tested... which he could only do in his shop. When he returned to my house, he had to take TWO units back to his shop. He then started to come up with all sorts of excuses as to why he was not finished! One was that the area where he had his shop had been flooded and thus he supposedly could not get into the shop. THAT WAS LAST AUTUMN! I still do not have the "units" back, and he keeps coming up with excuses. Now, I know that the H-111 is old, and that parts might be hard to find. However, we are no going on 8 months since our first phone conversation. Is this unreasonably long? Is it true that some of the parts...such as capacitors...are very hard to find? By the way, the so-called "technician is located in Vermont, and I am in New Hampshire. Do you know of anyone in this area who can help me? The guy still has my units!
@deathshead357
3 жыл бұрын
@@DeedsResearcher Did you get your units back?
@strangersound
4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Smith, Jack McDuff, Jimmy McGriff, Charles Earland, Charles Kynard, Lonnie Smith, Leon Spencer...all worth your time if you love the Hammond. The mod/beat scene had a lot of it, too. :)
@jibsmokestack1
2 жыл бұрын
And Larry Young imo the best of them all!
@retired42002vz
5 ай бұрын
Own music by all these greats!
@thewoodys_surf_instrumental
5 жыл бұрын
Amazing to think about Jimmy Smith's Hammond organ and Chuck Berry's guitar influence on millions of young musicians.
@TrevWILL79
12 жыл бұрын
this was a very educational video from the standpoint that I played along side many Hammonds to this day...and i always had this secret desire to play well. This coming from a drummer.
@scottelliott5816
6 жыл бұрын
I have a 1961 M111 I! I love It! It's not a B3, But it has beautiful tone and is fully functional! Sometimes you can't even tell the difference! what an amazing Instrument! TY Hammond!
@str8upme2
2 жыл бұрын
Funny but al green organ player was the taste in that music he was the sauce man!!! That swooop on love and happiness 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
@TomRivieremusic
6 жыл бұрын
Great! The B 3 Hammond Organ. Bought mine in 1970 for 5,283 dollars and still have it. First thing I ever bought coming out of the Vietnam war. I was 22 years old and loved Jimmy Smith. Larry Young, Brian Auger.
@garys8990
6 жыл бұрын
Hammond Organ the greatest instrument in all of the world!!!!
@knutnskar6796
5 жыл бұрын
Agree. And I play the guitar 😁
@imthatboy5916
5 жыл бұрын
THAT’S RIGHT !!
@chrisstrobel3439
4 жыл бұрын
Cool video, I miss my B3, it got stolen in the late 80’s along with my Leslie 800 .. but never fear Hammond now has a B3 app for the iPad that sounds just as good as it did .. only thing missing is the waterfall keys :)
@rictrexell2118
7 жыл бұрын
When I was 7 in June of 1959, a big wooden device was brought into our home and I was told that I could play it but I had to wash my hands and take off my shoes. Mom played by ear and that C-3 was finally sold in 2005 one year after mom died. I sold it on ebay. It went from Wisconsin to Louisiana and to my surprise, the guy that bought it didn't even want the tone cabinet. He fixed them up and he said it went to a church. He was surprised how good the wood was and I told him that was because I had to wash my hands and take off my shoes before I touched it. Now every time I see a band play I look to see if they have a Hammond.
@TheEgg185
7 жыл бұрын
When I was 8 in July of 1960, a big wooden box was brought into our home and I was told not open it. My mother told me that my grandpa was sleeping inside and had come to live with us from now on.
@matrox
5 жыл бұрын
When I was 2 Christmas 1959. I recieved a box. I opened it and it was a genuine Mickey Mouse Club guitar!
@xxEzraBxxx
4 жыл бұрын
I got my Hammond R-128 3 days ago. First organ I ever owned, I love it!
@denniswalsh8476
4 жыл бұрын
The A 100 has the same keyboards and the same tone generator but has internal amplifers with speakers and a reverb chain. It's (ugly) open back and intended to be placed against the wall. It does not have internal rotary speakers. Like most/all A100s, B3s, C3s M3s etc. needs to be modified to connect to Leslie cabinets. Standard for B3s C3s (and others without power amps and speakers), the standard connections were for Hammond "Tone Cabinets" that had two (channel?) power amps a necklace reverb and a reverb amp with its own, dedicated speaker. Good sounding but not at all the sound of a Leslie.
@mj99a
6 жыл бұрын
keith emerson sited awesome jazz b3 player brother jack mcduff''s "rock candy" as the song that inspired him to play the organ!
@daveyr5462
6 жыл бұрын
For a genius, Laurens Hammond was sure stubborn at times. I wonder what would have happened to the Hammond company if they went into partnership with Leslie. Some organs even had output jacks that were incompatible with Leslie speakers so that they couldn’t be used. Still, nothing can come close to the original genuine Hammond sound and electronic organs like the Vox Continental and Wurlitzers which sound like they have laryngitis compared to a Lesliefied B3.
@EarlSchaffer
11 жыл бұрын
Hammond B3, C3, and A100 are ALL THE SAME ORGAN with the same internal mechanics. The letter simply represents the furniture the organ was built in.
@mattrogers1946
4 жыл бұрын
Exactly!
@Shred_The_Weapon
4 жыл бұрын
Same with the RT-3, right?
@gr8fullfred
4 жыл бұрын
Thanks for that info!
@jimmymurphy7789
4 жыл бұрын
Wow - Didn't know that. Thanks.
@TheLarryBrown
4 жыл бұрын
that is not true, A100 is not the same at all. It has fewer keys and other differences.
@bulldogbrower6732
5 жыл бұрын
Check out Green Onions, Booker T, live from Daryl’s House. Now thats the B-3
@EJP286CRSKW
6 жыл бұрын
The Hammond company should also be given great credit for reducing registration to the drawbar system, and for building these things really well. Most are still running. And the keyboard action is still the best in the business, something the 1960s imitators simply could not get right.
@mongolikejazz
6 жыл бұрын
Until recently. I owned a Hammond RT 3. I wanted to learn how to play it, but I am a terribly undisciplined musician. I ended up selling it to an African-American church where I know it will put to good use. It finally went home!
@mattwalsh9413
5 жыл бұрын
That's the best one ever made!
@markstrumma4733
5 жыл бұрын
I have an RT3 hooked up to Leslie 147 and a PR40 It came out of a cathederal in NE of UK, It's got pride of place in my studio now. I still have to pinch myself when I look at it. Sounds awesome!!.. @@mattwalsh9413
@ralphbenites1819
6 жыл бұрын
Don’t forget billy Preston 🎹 r.i.p.
@BabyBoiQue
7 жыл бұрын
Ijust watched a video on the history of the Hammond Organ, and not one mention of Billy Preston? Not even a picture??
@wdilks
4 жыл бұрын
He was just one of many users of the instrument.
@3243_
4 жыл бұрын
No mention of Keith Emerson or Larry Young either.
@vajrasattva1
4 жыл бұрын
@threeby8887 They probably didn't want people seeing Emerson stick knives in it or rock it back and forth.🤣
@shaunrish9516
5 жыл бұрын
I am amazed you can have a documentary about the hammond without including Steve Winwood
@EclecticHillbilly
4 жыл бұрын
Watch it again, he's in there with Traffic.
@MoBettaLedbetter
12 жыл бұрын
Ethel Smith and Jimmy Smith!!! Two Hammond Organ Legends!!!
@johnmizutani8324
5 жыл бұрын
I love the sound of the B-3 with dual Leslie cabinets. The sound utilized by Roger Smith from Tower of Power. The percussive touch was really outstanding.
@doce7606
5 жыл бұрын
Wow ! now I see, the stops add the overtone series ! And the trick was producing them using valves and caps, isolating them and evening their volumes out.. ! Then add the Leslie. What an pair of inventions... Great to see the afro-american pioneers.. So the 'Jazz' sound Jimmy Smith got was the first three stops? What does that mean harmonically, each note adds its 2nd, 3rd, and 4th overtone? That must have helped generate 'quartal' harmony for the pianists... ! Thanks a lot for super post. Peace
@jeanhodgson8623
5 жыл бұрын
What did the B3 in was the arrival of the Rhodes suitcase electric piano. It was a nice novelty when it appeared, but it soon became tiresome, especially when Bob James played it. Bill Evans gave it a try, but he didn't like it much.
@tedphillips2501
5 жыл бұрын
As long as you can get 6V6 vacuum tubes (now made in Rusia) you can't kill'em.
@andywright8803
5 жыл бұрын
Used to play one in church until I was 18. Beautiful instrument. The minister didn't mind me pretending to be Keith Emerson on it if nomody else was around. Then I went to university and have never played one since
@willys6529
5 жыл бұрын
That is a pity!
@andywright8803
5 жыл бұрын
@@willys6529 yes. I have played some rather nice pianos anf keyboards, but not a Hammond
@steveskouson9620
6 жыл бұрын
"On the inside, most speakers don't have moving parts." The Voice coil, and the diaphragm, aren't moving? If they didn't move, we couldn't hear anything! You are right, the spinning stuff inside a Leslie Speaker is pretty DAMN impressive! steve
@Bitterrootbackroads
5 жыл бұрын
I once bought a $2 organ at a farm auction for my keyboard playing girlfriend. It didn't seem to be working, and being mechanically curious, I pulled the cover off to see what was inside expecting an air blower and rows of pipes. Well--- it was a Hammond! I don't remember which model but something for home use. Me and my oil can had it working in no time. Some years later the electrician at the lumbermill where I worked thought he was so "smart" when he tried to explain to "dummy me" how the sensor was reading little segments in the wheel and creating the rpm display on my machine. So I says to him--- "yea, like a Hammond organ". And he says to me--- "NO, you idiot, that's NOT how an organ works". I persisted and we had quite a heated discussion, I eventually got an apology out of him! And he is a wiser electrician!
@kelvikelv5322
6 жыл бұрын
A really good education on the Hammond. Notice the two people who did the most for the Hammond had the same last name: Ethel Smith and Jimmy Smith.
@willys6529
5 жыл бұрын
Let's not forget the German organist Klaus Wunderlich who sold more than 20 million lp and cd's almost worldwide. It is a pity that he switched from Hammond to Wersi in the seventies. His early Hammond lp's (the fifties and sixties) are the best, at least that's my opinion.
@geraldcity5706
4 жыл бұрын
That is amazing two people who brought the Hammond to its reality today with the last name Smith.
@DeadKoby
5 жыл бұрын
When inventors and musicians collide, sometimes great things happen. Another great musical instrument developer was NOT a player... I'm sure you've heard of Leo Fender. Very cool stuff. I encourage anyone out there to salvage old instruments that you find, and get them a new home with someone who will enjoy them. I've saved a few Pianos, and it's wonderful to hear them played by their new owners.
@OrganGuy314
13 жыл бұрын
"Whiter Shade of Pale", Procol Harum
@sandrasanders706
4 жыл бұрын
Steve Winwood..
@nohaste4me
3 жыл бұрын
Must have been the greatest 'Hammondhit' !!
@icebob8555
6 жыл бұрын
I know ya can’t mention all the famous Hammond players but Here’s to you Greg Allman
@loydmcintosh4961
6 жыл бұрын
Also, Jon Lord of Deep Purple. Those two are gigantic equals on the Hammond in my opinion.
@CyclingSasquatch
5 жыл бұрын
@cindykrista How were Gregg Allman and Jon Lord "not even in the music scene" before a video from the 2000s?
@johnzane4610
5 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid; it was the Rascals, Vanilla Fudge and "The Vagrants" (Leslie West's first band) that ruled, especially their Live Shows !!!!!
@spuds6423
4 жыл бұрын
Isn't that Gregg Rolie of Journey playing with Carlos before he and Schon formed Journey?
@mistersparkle
4 жыл бұрын
No, that's Gregg Rolie of Santana, playing at Woodstock waaaay before he and Schon (also of Santana) formed Journey.
@spuds6423
4 жыл бұрын
@@mistersparkle well, if you want to get technical, both Schon and Rolie were with Carlos before they formed Journey. Because very few people today know who Gregg is in the first place and that he was a founder of Journey. All they know is today's " Karoeke Journey"even though Schon is totally underrated and still with the band.
@mistersparkle
4 жыл бұрын
@@spuds6423 My 'tongue-in-cheek' post does mention Schon having been in Santana before forming journey. The post was meant to be humorous in the same vein as seeing a video of Paul McCartney in the Beatles and saying, "Hey, isn't that Paul McCartney from Wings playing in that band".
@spuds6423
4 жыл бұрын
@@mistersparkle No worries...I guess emoticons come in handy sometimes!!!😃😃😃
@lock514
4 жыл бұрын
The Hammonds B3 and Leslie Are a staple in every black church
@playonkorg
5 жыл бұрын
I own a A100 and a Leslie 760 for playing covers from bands like Earth and Fire and playing Realbook Jazz in a combo. I drag myself silly to get it in my Berlingo Van bút ...... it's worth it every time !! That experience is as a mariage with bad and nice days....the dynamic of the sound is the dynamic of life
@jeanhodgson8623
5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the upload. Very interesting. Jimmy Smith didn't get the recognition he deserved?? He is widely recognized as the boss man on the B3. Those Mickey Mouse rock players don't win, place or show, lol. As with too many KZitem videos, the volume is way too low. I had to use headphones to hear it.
@stuartdinkes8048
5 жыл бұрын
ALSO THE LATE GREAT LARRY YOUNG WHO WAS VERY WIDELY OVERLOOKED YOUNG PLAYED WITH SOME THE HEAVY WEIGHTS IN JAZZ AND JAZZ FUSION ON THE B3 ORGAN AND WITH THE GREATIST DRUMMER OF ALL TIME IN MY OPINION TONY WILLIAMS!! IN LIFETIME BAND WITH MCLAUGHLIN JUST LISTIN TO INTO SOMETHING OR UNITY, LAURENCE OF NEWARK BY YOUNG OR HIS WORK WITH TONY WILLIAMS EMERGENYC, TURN IT OVER YOUNG IS ON SOME THE GREATIST ALBUMS IN MUSIC NEVER GOT THE RECONITION HE DESERVES DIED WAY TOO YOUNG IN 1978.
@petermautner198
4 жыл бұрын
Rock is just in many ways crass commercialism pawned off on the masses through The Controlled M(ASS)MEDIA .
@ramsesstafford4640
2 жыл бұрын
You just explain exactly why Jimmy Smith is overlooked it's because people want to give the credit to a rock organist and say that was the true innovation turning point for the organ, hell, there are people who are doing in the comment section of this video. With the exception of Miles Davis and John Coltrane people love to push aside what great Jazz musicians brought to the table as blasphemous as that sounds.
@ramsesstafford4640
2 жыл бұрын
My point was the rock organist were supposed to be the NEW cool but certainly wasn't the better virtuoso's at it so they get overrated and Jimmy Smith gets overlooked unless you know.
@D33Lux
4 жыл бұрын
Hammond: Had 110 patents by the time of his death. Me: I opened up my chocolate milk all by myself...GREAT SUCCESS!👍
@johnstorton
4 жыл бұрын
IMO, NOBODY has ever made a B-3 sound better than Ken Hensley!
@paulj0557tonehead
13 жыл бұрын
I like Harvey's playing best. The popular standards of the 1930's sound so nice on a Hammond tone wheel organ. It all goes back to Ethel Smith!
@wanderingwade8877
4 жыл бұрын
Great video. I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Hammond is a part of much of the music I love.
@cengeb
8 жыл бұрын
Lee Michaels Stormy Monday!
@B3burner
6 жыл бұрын
cengeb >>>> Oh yeah!!!! The live version I’ve heard is especially nice!
@tahoecoyote
3 жыл бұрын
He is the reason I have a Hammond today.
@paulgibby6932
4 жыл бұрын
Also Brother Jack MacDuff
@rickhasitallbro6321
4 жыл бұрын
Jon Lord played a Hammond
@hippieinmississippi
13 жыл бұрын
12:07-12:16 the reason i started learning hammond, gotta love Santana at woodstock
@Joeh1154
4 жыл бұрын
Wow! I've never seen this before. Always loved the sound of the B-3 but folks, if you've worked the small rooms and the keyboardist played a B-3, you hated helping him move it after the gig!! That was wonderful and thanks for posting it. Best.
@JimBischoff1184
8 ай бұрын
LOL ! 😂 That’s the truth ! The band I was in during the mid 80s through the late nineties was blessed with an amazing keyboardist ; who had a Hammond B3 & Leslie speaker setup ! Did I mention that we had practice in his basement ?! 😮😅 We both loved and dreaded getting gigs to play ! 😁
@OwenAdamsMusic
5 жыл бұрын
I think the best Hammond emulation these days is NORD by a long shot! The leslie emulation is more realistic than the XK in my opinion, and the tube overdrive is pretty much spot on. Just use a second board underneath for the bottom manual 🔥🔥🔥
@loubarrett6479
5 жыл бұрын
Owen Adams Music the nord is almost indistinguishable from the true Hammond! And it can produce sounds the Hammond never could. I did a recording with a pro session player and I swear you can hear horns! The Nord with a true Leslie is absolutely awesome!😎
@gregkrouse9015
Жыл бұрын
I have ignored an a ham and SK one. I disagree. The ham, and Leslie is pretty strong. This is Ricky people worked really hard to emulate this organ, and added all these other great voices, including a pipe organ. He sounds on my Hamon are incredible but of course the B3 emulation is tops.
@OwenAdamsMusic
Жыл бұрын
@@gregkrouse9015 So, you're saying you prefer the Hammond SK-1? I haven't played it myself - just basing my opinion on recordings I've heard, so I could be totally wrong, lol. Have you tried the Nord Electro or Stage stuff though? I dunno, they have a special kind of warm, nostalgic sound in my opinion.
@gregkrouse9015
Жыл бұрын
@@OwenAdamsMusic Sorry for slow response. I have not listened as critically but my hammond SK pro seems okay with Leslie. I have a early nord which I do like and recorded with and it does sound great on the recording with its Leslie. Curious about piano sound on stage Nords. Again mine is an early one and I have had to put it through a tube preamp to improve the piano sound. I know some of the Nords have a tube to round them out and probably add overdrive.
@harryschaefer8563
5 жыл бұрын
I remember the Rascals playing at an RIT "beer bash" dance and I wondered what was the thing spinning in the speaker? Now I know what it was.
@curbmassa
5 жыл бұрын
I had a small Leslie (marketed by Fender) that I used with guitar. The rotating drum faced the front of the cabinet and the grill cloth was missing. People would come up to me and ask what that was all about. I'd tell them I was running a load of laundry. I'd hit the foot switch to speed up the drum and announce that was the spin cycle.Most of them were satisfied with my answer.
@TheMJGChannel
5 жыл бұрын
I love the Hammond Organ!!! It’s the best!! 🎹
@klbax63
7 жыл бұрын
Lorenz Hammond was tone deaf and could not hear the Leslie effect and did not recognize as more than riding off the success of his organs Don Leslie in fact offered to give the technology to the Hammond organ company in trade for a full time Job with the Hammond company.Lorenz still could not hear what the speaker brought to his organ and rather than accept Don's offer he chose to continue his harassment and kept his dislike of Leslie till the day he died What a moron the company's that would eventually become his competition all welcomed doing business with the Don Leslie many even would come with on board Leslie speakers and Don Leslie became a pretty wealthy guy in his own write
@analogikahamburg
5 жыл бұрын
I was under the impression that he could hear exactly what the Leslie speaker did, and just *hated* it, because it destroyed the purity and beauty of the Hammond tone. His goal was an electronic reproduction of a pipe organ. No swirly Doppler effects and phasing on those.
@jbooks888
4 жыл бұрын
You just can't beat the sound of a full blown hammond with that leslie spinning!
@surefmeurope5766
4 жыл бұрын
Bridge tables to organs... seems the tables turned HAHAHA! !!😂
@knowledgeispower9241
5 жыл бұрын
I watched the whole video very interesting great info. If you are a musician gotta watch this
@AMStationEngineer
6 жыл бұрын
I've repaired a total of five Leslie's over the years. One, was modified by an engineering prof from Georgia Tech, Dr. W. Marshall Leach. He had passed away by the time I received the Leslie for repair, there were no included schematics, so I contacted Georgia Tech's engineering department. That, was a blast! The short story is, there are more "Leach Leslie's" out there, treasure them, because I don't believe they'll ever be equaled!
@euripidiesupman9755
6 жыл бұрын
I learned to play classical organ on an A-105 that we had for about 25 years. The thing was bullet-proof. I traded it in for a Baldwin church model, and got just as much as we paid for it 25 years before.
@AlvaSudden
4 жыл бұрын
What a planet I live on. These animals I live among invented this amazing-sounding thing. When I'm gone from here I will remember this music and say what the hell was that?
@TryptychUK
5 жыл бұрын
A friend of mine has a classic "Split" C3 painted black and covered in Dymo stickers that formerly belonged to Pete Bardens of Camel. It's a true monster. Part of the sound is that as they get older, the tone wheels "bleed" so you get this underlying tone coming through that only the old ones give, that result in this "dirty" or even "filthy" rock Hammond sound.
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