Caravan sound

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In a message dated 9/16/00 7:20:06 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
harrybissell at prodigy.net writes:

<< It was also common at that time to just overdrive the hell out of the
 old tube Leslie speakers (like 147's) and let the tubes clip. Some were
 hot rodded to enhance this effect.  If you pull all the stops out (so so
 speak...lol)
 you have plenty of signal to work with. >>

Oh yeah, of course.  But that's quite a different sound from the fuzzbox 
organ.  Fuzzbox organ is much cheesier, more nasal, and almost impossible to 
play chords with.  Even the big two-fisted jazz and gospel guys like to 
disort their Leslies, and they can play any chords they want without losing 
too much harmonic definition in the chords.  

In my opinion, the ultimate overdriven Leslie tune:  "Chest Fever", by The 
Band.  Interestingly, Garth Hudson, the Band's organist, has always favored 
dorky theater organs such as Lowery's and Gulbransen's over Hammond B3's.  I 
think the "Chest Fever" organ was a Lowery, although it so freaking ballsy, 
most people refuse to believe that it could be anything other than a B3.

Best regards,
Michael Bacich