Re: M-100 - Your attention please!

[aq255@freenet.Buffalo.EDU (Paul W. Zablotski)]

>
>Perry Hemus cracked me up when he wrote:
>
>  > M-100 ........Will it give me a decent hammond sound, when driven
>  > through a lesley?  I have one at the moment, I am looking out for
>  > a decent lesley.
>
>  > .....but at the moment it sounds crap (churchy, ooh Mrs Miller,
>  > wheres my bloomers)
>
>  > If it's not going to give me 'THE' sound then I will get rid, and
>  > forget about it.
>
>  > If however it comes close then I will keep.
>
>  > ......before you B3 owners smugly reply with smart answers
>  > like....forget it, nothing comes close, then just remember that
>  > most of the mail going to and fro from this list, is about little
>  > boxes for A3500 that do just that, come close.
>
>  > I don't want a module or a synth, I hate them, I want a big
>  > bastard Hammond that screems, hums and smells like an old man's
>  > house.
>
>  > I have one at the moment that does the latter, but not the former.
>
>  > Advice please........
>
>haw-haw-haw. keep that thing. get a leslie, hook up that hammond and
>drive the snot out of it.
>
>btw - whois mrs miller?
>
>  > PS, Check out:
>
>  > John Patton, Reuben Wilson, Lonnie Smith, Johnny Hammond, Trudy
>  > Pitts, Jack Mc Duff, Charles Kynard, Charles Earland, Brian Auger
>  > (...what a Brit??) , Ronnie Foster etc..
>
>you got to check out "bar wars", a willis "gator" jackson album
>(tenor), charles earland on organ, pat martino (guitar), idris
>muhammed (drums). it's listed in gilles bacon's discography.
>
>all i want to do when i grow up is play a short shuffle on b3 in some
>smokey joint named "the blue flame" with "gator tail" jackson walkin the
>bar and raising the roof. eleven or twelve choruses later i'll towel off
>and do it all over again.
>
>perry - you have convinced me that it's time to start the hammond-list
>quotation collection. i hereby nominate the following as the first entry:
>
>     "I don't want a module or a synth, I hate them, I want a big
>      bastard Hammond that screems, hums and smells like an old man's
>      house."  - Perry Hemus
>
>

(Sorry to quote it all, but then, it's WORTH quoting)

Brad - 
I agree on the quotation collection.  I also think Perry is now the leading
contender for the first annual Hammond list "Golden Quill" literature award!
Mind you, you're not far behind with that "Blue Flame" scenario.  Perhaps there
could be categories - descriptive, fiction ...........   ?

:^)

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Paul Zablotski        aq255@freenet.buffalo.edu