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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 03:07 PM
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Songs with the "Leslie Speaker" sound
That is, where the horns spin, giving it a phase-ey sound.

An example - the guitar on Elton John's "All the Girls Love Alice"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eyjBBcUO9k
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:41 PM
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1. Blue on Green
Booker T and the MGs
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:44 PM
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3. You mean Green Onions?
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DFW Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:46 PM
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5. Nope. "Blue on Green"
Edited on Sat Oct-08-11 04:49 PM by DFW
Some obscure tune on one of their albums where Booker T kept turning the Leslie on and off to perfect effect.

*on edit--I found a short clip on amazon-UK: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Blue-On-Green-LP-Version/dp/B001EZ802A
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Amerigo Vespucci Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:43 PM
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2. Anything by Deep Purple
John Lord got his keyboard sound by sending it through Leslies.

:toast:
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 04:44 PM
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4. Ahhhh John Lord - A "Lord" among Keyboardists
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Iggo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:27 AM
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14. I was gonna post Highway Star...
...but I like your answer better.
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bluesbassman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 05:21 PM
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6. Cold Shot - Stevie Ray Vaughn
Mucho Leslie on this one. :)

http://youtu.be/fAPo0EMfdLw

Couldn't Stand The Weather is another good example;

http://youtu.be/ofj6l9f939A
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Taverner Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 05:34 PM
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7. See my post here:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 06:37 PM
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8. One of my favorite Philly area musicians up through the 90's was Earl Hines...
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... who fronted The Earl Hines R&B Quartet on a Hammond C-3 and a Leslie speaker.
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He was in his 70's when I asked him if, after lugging those enormously heavy
monsters to-and-from gigs for decades, he had ever been tempted to get a light
electronic organ with a Hammond/Leslie feature programmed into it.
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He told me that he had NEVER heard anyone program that sound just right -- "it's
the tubes, man -- the TUBES!!!"
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He did admit, however... that after he reached the age of 65, he stopped booking
second-floor gigs.
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:rofl:
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friendly_iconoclast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 07:01 PM
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9. Heard Sam Yahel using one with a Hammond B-3 a week ago yesterday.
His trio opened for Steely Dan at the Wang Theater in Boston. I was very impressed by them.
The spinning horn(s) were easily visible from my seat


http://www.samyahel.com/
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edbermac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 07:22 PM
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10. John Lennon's vocals were put through the LS for Tomorrow Never Knows
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Tom Ripley Donating Member (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 07:32 PM
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11. "Let It Loose"
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 08:19 PM
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12. Lots of good B3/Leslie on this
Warren Haynes Band covers I Wish then breaks into Soulshine. :thumbsup:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phbo9cTsqt4&feature=youtube_gdata_player
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Tikki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-08-11 08:28 PM
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13. Rusty Young (POCO) often played his steel...
through a Leslie speaker.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4JXoEc3LCY


Tikki
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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:54 AM
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electric Worry by Clutch...
And the lead singer gets me all twitterpated.

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mcctatas Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:54 AM
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15. electric Worry by Clutch...
And the lead singer gets me all twitterpated.

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Frank Cannon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 10:14 AM
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16. Pink Floyd's "Echoes"
The ethereal "pinging" that serves as the basis for the track is Rick Wright playing a grand piano through a Leslie.
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smoochpooch Donating Member (688 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 10:56 AM
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17. You mean like "Crimson and Clover?" I think that's what is used. nt
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panader0 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 03:37 PM
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18. Any jazz song by Jimmy Smith
and his big Hammond organ.
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saras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 09:48 PM
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19. A few of them, all classic rock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTQF89JiEJc">Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be (vocals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW3pZjmS3rg">Black Sabbath - Planet Caravan (vocals)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McSPd3aVXNk">Steve Miller Band - Song For Our Ancestors (guitar solo at end)
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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-11 03:57 PM
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20. Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger & The Trinity's killer cover
Edited on Tue Oct-11-11 03:58 PM by hifiguy
of "Light My Fire." Can't find a youtube link. :( From the 1969 LP "Streetnoise." Most real-sounding recording of a Hammond organ through a tube-powered Leslie speaker ever. And I am paid to offer my opinion about such things. Seriously, a guy at a hi-fi show demoing a $250,000 system wouldn't let me out of the room until I let him rip it from my CD.

And the reason Jon Lord's Hammond sounded the way it did was because he drove his Leslie speakers with freaking Marshall Major 200 watt tube guitar amplifiers. Keith Emerson did the same thing, but with ultra-clean sounding Hiwatt tube amplifiers.

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LeftOfSelf-Centered Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-11 04:43 PM
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21. I actually just posted one on YouTube
It's a song I wrote a few years ago and re-recorded recently.

Thete's a guitar with a Leslie effect in the second half of the bridge, even though I think I mixed it too low.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0KWBGigtU

<\shameless plug> :evilgrin:
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LeftOfSelf-Centered Donating Member (270 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-11-11 04:43 PM
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22. Oops. Double post. nt
Edited on Tue Oct-11-11 04:45 PM by LeftOfSelf-Centered
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