Caravan sound

[Don Tillman]

   Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2000 08:50:33 +0200
   From: Ingo Debus <debus at cityweb.de>

   I shouldn't have used the term "cheesy" here. Of course a Hammond is
   *not* cheesy ;-). But since you wrote about a Lowrey organ and someone
   else wrote me that Sinclair used a Lowrey too... I never heard a
   Lowrey... how do they sound?

A Lowrey sounds like a home organ; it doesn't have anywhere near the
soul or character of a Hammond.

Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine used a Lowrey organ with a fuzz.  His
stuff is really out there; sort of the Ornette Coleman of the fuzz
organ.  

   But is this really a Hammond in the first part of the solo? (Listened
   again to it, headphones this time...) Yes, it could be a Hammond with
   strange registration. 

It sounds exactly like a Hammond to me.

   There's a "normal" sounding Hammond playing chords during the solo
   too. 

There are a lot of overdubs on that album.

  -- Don

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Don Tillman
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