OT: Re: While we're off-topic...

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2000 14:35:15 +0200
   From: Ingo Debus <debus at cityweb.de>

   does anyone remember the band Caravan? They had a very typical sound in
   many songs on their early albums ("If I could do it all over again", or
   "In the land of gray and pink"), it is a special distortion, I don't
   even know if it's from a guitar or an organ. Does anybody know how they
   made it? I love that sound.

I believe it's an organ through a fuzz box.  Keyboard players in the
"Canterbury" bands did this all the time.  I *love* the Canterbury
bands; Soft Machine, Caravan, National Heath, Hatfield and the North,
the Bruford band; those guys.

The most extreme case was Mike Ratledge from Soft Machine.  He played
this cheezy Lowrey organ through a fuzz box and made it sound all the
world like some mutant saxophone.  Check out the Soft Machine albums
"Third", "Fourth" and "Virtually".

These folks had an attitude of experimenting with their instruments
that you rarely see these days.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
Palo Alto, California, USA
don at till.com
http://www.till.com