Caravan sound

[frank olivieri]

The most incredible organ distortion I have ever heard is on 'Peel the Paint' from the Gentle Giant Octopus album. Sounds almost like a mechanical scraping. Time to warm up Napster!

Frank

On Sat, 16 Sep 2000 18:28:01 EDT WeAreAs1 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 9/16/00 11:50:01 AM Pacific Daylight Time, don at till.com 
>writes:
>
><< Chords don't work through fuzzboxes because of intermodulation.  But a
> good Canterbury keyboard player will use the "intermodulation chiffs"
> from multiple notes as an expressive tool.  Listen closely for that;
> it's pretty neat. >>
>
>Yes, it certainly is!  You can also hear a similar distorted organ solo in 
>Traffic's "Low Spark of High-Heeled Boys", from their album of the same name. 
> The organ is played by Stevie Winwood.  It's especially cool when he kind of 
>slurs his various monophonic solo notes into that intermodulated grunge, and 
>then later just starts playing full chords, just for the beautiful noise of 
>it.
>
>Oh yeah, "Ummagumma"-era Pink Floyd seemed to like that kind of organ sound 
>quite a bit, too.
>
>Don is right about the type of organ or type of fuzzbox:  It doesn't much 
>matter what types you use.  However, if you have a drawbar-type organ, it's a 
>lot of fun to change the drawbar settings while you're playing through a 
>fuzzbox.  The effect can sometimes sound kind of like a guitar breaking into 
>harmonic feedback, or even harmonic feedback breaking into a guitar...
>
>Michael Bacich
>
>

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