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Outkaster - Seeing Red?


Joe Muscara

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OK OK tough guys! LOL. I always thought Billy carried one of Bill Brown's chops and also was using a Korg CX-3 at one point? My dept closed yesterday so I was not around. Got Springsteen tickets this morning so I am really pshcyed about that.

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OK OK tough guys! LOL. I always thought Billy carried one of Bill Brown's chops and also was using a Korg CX-3 at one point?
I'm not just saying this to piss you off, but I'm like 95% sure that Billy was using a Hammond before this, just not sure if it was an XK-3 or an XK-1 but I do think it was an XK.

 

He was using a chop back in the Lowell days, and perhaps when Feat got back together too.

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I've seen Billy play a B-3.

I've seen him play a C-3 (mine).

I've seen him play his own chop.

I've seen him play a HS XK3.

 

Now I've seen him play a Nord.

 

It's pretty obvious that the Feat gigs so much, and in so many varied circumstances, that Billy plays "provided" gear a good deal of the time.

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I've seen Billy play a B-3.

I've seen him play a C-3 (mine).

I've seen him play his own chop.

I've seen him play a HS XK3.

 

Now I've seen him play a Nord.

 

It's pretty obvious that the Feat gigs so much, and in so many varied circumstances, that Billy plays "provided" gear a good deal of the time.

yeah, I would guess that there's a lot of backline going on. It's too expensive and difficult to transport gear these days.
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I know he gigs provided gear when they go outside of the US. He's a Korg guy, and in clips of him from Jamaica, he's playing an RD-700 (SX, I think). But in the US, I've usually seen him with the same two Korgs and the organ du jour. And the X-stands. ;)

 

This was a US gig.

 

OTOH, Feat let Shawn Murphy go for money reasons. So maybe you're right. I guess we'll see when other clips of them show up.

 

I thought he was also a Hammond endorsee, but he's not on that page any more. That could explain the change as well.

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No I did not take it in a bad way at all.
The whole point of this thread was to get you riled up because Billy was playing an Electro. The fact that he might have given up a Hammond to do it was just icing. ;):thu:

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Billy switched to an XK-3 about 3 years ago as far as I know. Until then for smaller shows or gear cartage logistics he would sometimes just use the synth organ in his Korg SGx/Pro. He has used that on CD for different texture I guess or studio logistics again I would guess. I had an SGx/Pro and it did sit well in the mix for a synth organ.

 

About 5 years ago they played a show here at Planting Fields on LI and he had the chop which up close looked like the very chop he had on the cover of Waiting for Columbus. When I saw it at Planting Fields up close I realized how old it was and realized it most likely was the WFC cover chop.

 

It looked like a old Harrington or Oakland chop but could have just been custom or a one off or private job! It sounded to me like it had a transistor pre-amp whenever I heard the band live but it didn't sound 'nasal' to me on WFC if it was that organ! Maybe the album and picture were from different gigs...

 

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