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If I got on this forum and tried to tell you guys that I think that I am the Jimi Hendrix of the organ I would hope that you would find a way to make me stop. Somebody....assuming this guy doesn't have a tour manager handed that statement for the MC to read. Doley had to have been aware of it. Maybe I should have noticed Hammond Dave's comment about him putting on quite a show..... I guess I don't care much these days about what kind of show you have I am mostly concerned about the music. Quite honestly there hasn't been much in the thirty or so plus years at the blues festival that would fall under the category of being about show. It has been said that at the end of Hendrix career that he had tired of his past on stage antics and he just wanted to play....ala Band of Gypsies and his Rainbow bridge performance. I do think Lachy Doley does have a lot to offer but at that gig it seemed that he was overcompensating to get over to the large crowd. I liked him more in a sideman role which I was fortunate enough to hear later that day.

I heard him at the Waterfront Blues festival on Thursday.....with his own band and later as a sideman with vocalist Jade Macrae and guitarist Kirk Fletcher . The musical style was pedal to the metal for most part. Lachy seems to have a grip on how to make a Hammond sound exciting and he has a lot going regarding use of drawbars and coaxing unique sounds out of his instrument. He was obviously pumped to be doing his first American tour and he was in front of a large crowd of approximately 5000 or so people. The thing that concerned me was that the material was not all that intriguing. When a band is relying on doing Voodoo Child ( loud version ) it is just reminding me too much of all the times I have heard bands fall back on this and once again purely pedal to the metal. It was also announced before the set that we would be hearing. ,the ,"Jimi Hendrix of the Hammond organ "....which was not even close and I would wonder whose idea it was to announce him as that? What really got my attention was the set he did with Jade Macrae and Kirk Fletcher. Jade is an excellent vocalist and her material was well suited to the blues festival. In this environment Lachy played very tastefully and his Hammond sounds did much to enhance this set. After I heard his band I was wondering what he would do in a less "urgent" environment and to my surprise he showed up in a later set of just that. It seems to me that the Lachy Doley Band aim is to to knock your socks off, take no prisoners etc etc.It was refreshing to know that there is more to him than that but please.....lose the Jimi Hendrix of the organ billing ASAP

Yes.....I am going to be able to go hear Tower of Power that night. Quite a few years ago they played at that same location.....There is a bandstand right in front of the river in Albany Oregon.Tower of Power on a summer night.....sounds just about ideal doesn't it? The band members usually hang out and talk to people at this event..... in years past Rocco would always be available to chat with as well as Roger Smith Jerry Cortez etc.etc. These guys are into year 56 at this point.....will they make it to 60?

I have on occasion tried to twist Mr. McIntosh's arm and tried to get him to check in with this forum. One thing I do know about Michael is he is very conscientious about pricing and I also know he does teck work because he loves to help people. He had a huge reputation among players in the Portland area for many years. There shouldn't be a problem about asking questions ....I can relay some things to him and I do some amount of trying to help out as far as getting gear to and from his shop if needed. It's fairly amazing to reestablish contact with several players who I knew many years ago. In general digital keyboards can be a pain and do not have the longevity of something like a toneweel Hammond.

I have both the Mojo module and the Viscount module and both have been dependable for me. My biggest frustration is in trying to tame some of these Leslie sim issues. The HX3 sim and the Mojo sim drive me nuts because there is so much I don't understand about mic distance ...cabinet simulation and the like. Of all the Sims I find the Viscount most useful with the exception of overdrive. I am severely tempted to use a Leslie with the Mojo or HX3. It wouldn't be too hard to get a 45 size cabinet going....I just haven't gotten around to it

McIntosh Audio is 503 931 7577.....meeting with Michael should be time well spent. He is up in West Salem. So this is the one I know about....I suppose I know the original owner. Anyway Michael will take care of of you and he is not one of those overpriced hourly labor sharks.His first concern is to get you going....

Well....knowing most of the players who have owned Mojo's and toneweel Hammond's between Portland and Eugene I can just about GUESS who might have owned and modded this Mojo. Is it a dual manual....and was it previously used at jam nights in the Albany/ Corvallis area? I guess I shouldn't make this public perhaps but it's possible I have played this instrument.....no ? Once again.....I know Andrea personally.....I met him and Guido at NAMM quite a few years ago and helped them with some sales and service connections and I assure you that they and McIntosh Audio go to great lengths to keep the Crumar instruments ticking. It sounds like this might be an older Mojo dual manual ? Regardless....Michael is one tech who will go to great lengths to keep it going..

And Beato seems to be able to bitch all he wants about the state of the music industry. Yet somehow I am wrong for speaking up about him? The only education I get from him is his skill at self promotion. Thank God I don't have to chase that one anymore....

I think Beato is in danger of monopolizing the interview market. If you want to see a bad Beato interview listen to the one he did with Chuck Rainey where he's over there laughing when things ain't funny......to quote Mose Allison I try hard to avoid him though because I know he is going to upset me. And he's constantly begging for money so he can interview his dream guests. I know some of you guys think I am supposed to like him....how can I when he is showing off his personal gym ?And as far as I am concerned this is not education when he is demonstrating guitar licks but not teaching them at anywhere near learnable tempos. If Frank Zappa were alive today.....some of you would probably be saying that he shouldn't be speaking out. I can't demand that people see what I see.....I just wish his stuff would stop showing up when I search YouTube.

Correct me if I am wrong but aren't you in the Willamette Valley area of Oregon? Did you know that the national service center for Crumar is McIntosh Audio in Salem? Michael McIntosh works closely with Andrea in Italy to support Crumar both in and out of warranty. Let me know if you need contact info.... I will post if you don't already have it

A lot of you seem to love this Beato guy....I do not. I tried to listen to this clip and had to turn it off. Was he addressing us from his personal gym in the latter part of this video ? I do not agree that music was ever easy to make. And the fact that people no longer worship recordings as religious objects? That is gone....there are many reasons why but one place to start is the price of tickets to hear major artists in concert. I do not respect this person and strongly wish his videos would stop popping up so frequently in my YouTube search. I sadly miss Joe Chambers from Musicians Hall of Fame who never went off on crazy rants like this.

I am curious about Liano but I never see them at GC or anywhere else. Weighted keys are not always a must for me and if it means decreased weight and decreased price I am all for it. Also hoping to check out Go Keys....how are the acoustic and electric pianos on those? Really hoping that Roland would offer the FP-10 acoustic sound in something light weight...to me the FP-10 broke new ground in sound for under $600 list. That sound engine would be wonderful in a light weight board. For some reason Roland has gone in a strange direction with EPs.....the FP30x just sucks. My 15 year old Casio CTK 4200 just blows it away....I just don't get it For now.....the Rhodes in the Casio CTK 4200 works for me. This is the 61 key version of the WK220 from quite a while back. That Rhodes to me is very similar to some of what was on the Motif...in fact I preferred it to most of what was on the MOXF awhile back. I see them in the $40 to $50 range on Craigslist occasionally. It gets the job done for a lot of grab and go situations. And the WK220 /CTK4200 acoustic sample will get you by among a dense mix of other electric instruments. Not bad to have one given that they are practically free in the used market .

Today I did an experiment. I wanted to hear what my Viscount Solo would sound like if I took the percussion out of the sim and added it from another source........ in order to have percussion not be affected by the Leslie sim. I ran a midi cable into a Mojo module and then ran the Viscount and the Mojo into a mixer.The only sound from the Mojo is percussion with no sim spin at all. The Viscount had percussion turned off. . The tonality of the notes. IMO...... is much better with no spin in the percussion. It is very much like having no vibrato in the percussion with the chorus vibrato dial engaged on a real toneweel ..Hammond kept vibrato out of the percussion circuit for a reason and I think these clonewheel manufacturers could benefit from taking a serious look at what I am saying here. Those Leslie Sims screw up the natural sound of percussion dramatically in my opinion. They have come so far with all of this technology to be missing this important element.Percussion.....IMO.....just does not work well with attempts at making it spin.You may disagree but just push in the drawbars to listen to what having an effect engaged does to percussion. To me it makes a tremendous difference and I am just hoping I can get somebody to listen. The addition of percussion to Hammond was a big factor in making a B-3 etc. the legend it became. They did it right for a reason. I see a lot of people pay big money for the latest and greatest when we could make adjustments to what we already have. O

Unfortunately we lost David Sanborn recently and it made me go back to the live recording he did with Joey De Francesco of Let The Good Times Roll at a European jazz festival more than 10 years ago. I have heard comments here and there that the chorus vibrato on Key B instruments might not be up to snuff....What??..that Key B from back then sounds so good..... ..I I have both Mojo and Key B modules and to my ear they sound quite similar...except for the CV on the 30's model that Key B included. I love that sample because it is so unique.....there is nothing else like it in the clonewheel market. For whatever reason I prefer the Key B sim to anything else but I know I need to understand what is going on with Mojo editing. Most of the parameters mean nothing to me.And also I am starting to get frustrated with just about every speaker system I try.....but at home I just use phones and CV sounds great. I have actually had etter luck with some of the cheaper PA type speakers I have tried.The original Jensen driver's used in Leslies we're not exactly high tech.....oh well

I admit I like the Montage piano ... but am I going to chase the latest and greatest or buy a new roof? I have never ever bought a new car ....are you kidding? I picked up a used 2001 Toyota Camry 3 years ago which was one of the best decisions I ever made. I often wonder how some of you generate resources. I am slightly envious but it doesn't last............ I picked up a used FP10 for $150 recently and there is nothing I don't like about it. I had my RD300GX for 14 years and wish it hadn't become dysfunctional.I certainly wouldn't have replaced it with anything Yamaha.....unless someone gave me a Montage .....not going to happen. But if you can afford flagship......you are very fortunate. That's all ....