Did I ask this already? Hum.... sounds familiar....
What's your favorite Hammond organ solo?
2007-11-29 16:46:43 · 14 answers · asked by meep meep 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
Yahoo Answers wanted to put this in:
Health > Diseases & Conditions > Infectious Diseases
2007-11-29 16:47:07 · update #1
Recommendations: Oh right, I did. My memory fails me too often.
2007-11-29 17:27:05 · update #2
Smiley: Oh yes... I think I got infected, so it hasn't been eradicated.
2007-12-01 15:47:53 · update #3
Have you not heard of the 'Hammond Virus'? Apparently it wiped out thousands back in the late 60's early 70's. It was finally eradicated by the 'Yamaha Polyphonic Synthserum' sometime in the late 70's.
It really doesn't get much better that this great performance by Keith Emerson with ELP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ptJ_PUx1mRk
Or this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-B3UrB_dex8&feature=related
Or heck, even this one:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0FuFfcCZiE&feature=related
Another one of my favorite Hammond B-3 soloists was Jimmy Smith. He was awesome!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb5s3t65Q3Y
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufTbNTxu6g&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YZlvYcZwoU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DufTbNTxu6g
Here's a cool Jimmy tribute by 'The Tony Monaco Trio'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xVU_BLow5M&feature=related
And there's always Vincent Crane:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BiDSiGu8aI&feature=related
Edit - I tried to post this answer the other day, but Yahoo wouldn't let me for some reason. Sometimes Y!A is fussy when it comes to links I guess. So I saved this answer as a draft, thinking it might post properly at a later time. I was right!
2007-12-01 08:23:25 · answer #1 · answered by Smiley 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Check out "Fifty/Fifty" by Frank Zappa & The Mothers.
Some truly awesome B3 work on that track. It's kinda a parody of the styles of big bands of that era like Deep Purple and their ilk, but the musicianship, as always with Zappa's material, is outstanding. One of the few tracks where you can hear a Hammond, a guitar and a violin trade solos. Mind blowing stuff :) Enjoy !!
2007-11-30 04:19:28 · answer #2 · answered by martinowens5173 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure about solos but
Stevie Winwood on Gimme Some Lovin
Felix Cavallerrie(sp?) on Good Lovin
Ray Manzarek on Light My Fire
and
AL Kooper on Like A Rolling Stone
are some of my favorite pieces of B-3/Leslie work
2007-11-30 10:34:13 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Not sure about 'solo' exactly, but favourite Hammond songs :~
Child In Time ~ Deep Purple
Whiter Shade of Pale ~ Procol Harum
Sunny ~ Billy Preston
2007-11-30 07:03:33 · answer #4 · answered by Lady Silver Rose * Wolf 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite Hammond solos are from Jimmy Smith. His creative interpretations are like Jimmi Hendrix on the guitar.
2007-12-05 18:03:13 · answer #5 · answered by David J 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Keith Emerson. No one plays the Hammond organ like he does...
2007-12-01 00:24:39 · answer #6 · answered by jjdemarchi 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Sister Ray" Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat, truly pushes the boundaries of the instrument itself. Not to mention the recording being so far into the red that you wonder if your speakers are blown!!!!!! God loves the original speaker cabinets that came with these relics of a former era.
2007-11-30 03:53:39 · answer #7 · answered by Bender 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
pretty much anything by Jon Lord.
now if this was Moog instead of Hammond, it would be Keith Emerson
2007-11-30 03:13:02 · answer #8 · answered by deadhead (Who Dat Nation) 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Deep Purple-Burn
Uriah Heep-July morning
LOL on the infectious disease... but it is a machine not a soul...
2007-11-30 01:22:18 · answer #9 · answered by GreenEyes 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You asked about favorite organists.
Favorite is the one in "Highway Star" by Deep Purple.
2007-11-30 01:10:28 · answer #10 · answered by Montag 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋