Is this famous sound commonly used by Stewart and Sinclair a Wurlitzer?
Is this famous sound commonly used by Stewart and Sinclair a Wurlitzer?
A Lowry through a fuzzbox was it not?
As I recall it, Ratledge played Lowrey and Stewart played a Hammond.
I found an ineresting article about Mike Ratledge's organ sound:
"Ratledge's first organ in Soft Machine was a Vox Continental, which he soon replaced with a Lowrey Holiday Deluxe, relatively inexpensive compared with the Hammond he would have preferred. The Lowrey had a number of features that Ratledge put to good use (e.g., note bending), but suffered from a "weedy" quality (Ratledge's word) that the keyboardist remedied by using a fuzz box. With this setup plugged into a Marshall stack, seriously deranged volume levels were possible, but feedback was hard to avoid in the silences between notes. In a real-world example of the cliché about necessity being the mother of invention (and perhaps an inevitable Zappa reference as well), Ratledge found he could prevent feedback by avoiding the between-note gaps and forging on with his solos in a legato style, relentlessly pushing forward like a circular-breathing saxophonist who never takes a gulp of air until his solo is completely finished. Brian Hopper is quoted in the Bennett book describing the Ratledge soloing approach as "uncompromising strings of notes, leaps of musical structure and texture, and complex time signatures that all characterize a style not heard before or since."
Read more: http://www.answers.com/topic/mike-ra...#ixzz2cn5KLcSc
Stewart and Sinclair did play Hammond but most of the time they didn't. Hatfield at the rainbow is definately no Hammond
Dave Stewart writes: http://davebarb.amajor.com/visitor.html Hammond L122 organ
Stewart always used a Hammond except in the very early days of Uriel (largely unrecorded). I don't see what makes you assume the Rainbow show isn't with the Hammond. There are parts where he used his (also fuzz'd) Hohner Pianet to play dual lead lines with the Hammond (as in the climax of his solo in "Halfway Between Heaven And Earth").
Sinclair also used a Vox Continental in the early days, then switched to a Hammond until 1974 ("Fairfield Halls" live album) when he got a different, and VERY inferior-sounding model (heard on "Cunning Stunts" and, to most disastrous effect, on the BBC "In Concert" from March 1975), which was probably lighter and easier to carry when the band toured the US in late 1974.
Hmm didn't know about that model. My dad has had a Hammond for years and thought it didn't sound like a Hammond
Here's a pic of Dave Stewart's L122 (from Dave & Barbara's Facebook page). It's also on a pic of the back of The Civil Surface.
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There are people, and I'm one of them, that think the Hammond spinet models sound slightly better than the big church consoles for rock. I wish I still had my M3; that thing growled.
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