Herb

The trombone..........

Buck was a truly class act. The world could learn a LOT from him. RIP, Buck.

I don't think $300 is steep for an M-3. Especially when you hear what you are getting. The expensive part will be the Leslie 145 or 147 you'll need to go with it.......

Dang, Conn! Don't do that! Them things hurt! Hope they break up and come out small. Get well soon, buddy!

Drool!

Sorry, guys, but Pluto never was a planet, he was a dog - just ask Mickey!

Hi, guys! I dropped in Saturday night (Sunday morning) about 2AM Central time, and nothin' was happening; so I went on to bed.

Happy Birthday, Soul Stream!

Thanks, guys! I am here every day, I just don't always have a lot to say. I will say that this is a great place to be, and that I consider myself lucky to have found one of the rare places that honors or has anything to do with the Hammond Organs! I'll try to speak up a little more often. (you may live to regret that request! )

12 - 56 flatwounds on the two Gibsons and the Gretsch. My Tele and my Carvin get 11 - 52 roundwounds. The Ric 12 gets roundwounds, too.

You're welcome. I don't even know how I wound up with it. When I sold my last Rhodes, it had one with it. I even have the adjustable rod to it! They're just sitting on a shelf gathering dust.........

Jim, Do you need a sustain pedal for a Rhodes or a Wurlitzer? I've got one for a Rhodes.

Thanks for the "Hammond" section!

Powered through the Hammond.

Yes, the M3 is the way to go. I owned 3 or 4 of them before I finally got my B's. It is the spinet version of the B, real tone wheel generation and draw bars, the sound is identical, you usually couple them with a 145 or 147 Leslie.

Happy Birthday, Jazz Kat!

The bulk of the import archtops are made by Samick for Epiphone, Washburn, et al, and as far as the guitars themselves are concerned, they are nice instruments for their budget area, usually around $300 to $600 used. The electronics in them need to be upgraded to some quality stuff to make them a fine gigging guitar. I'd say that is probably what yours is. The high grade import archtops for Gretsch and D'Angelico and their like are made in Japan by the Terada factory, and go for $1500 and up used.

Break a leg! Don't forget to keep it fun!

Happy Birthday, Randy!

I ain't afraid to admit that I enjoy Basia's stuff - besides, Peter White is on most of her recordings.

A Leslie makes all the difference in the world. But you need to get one that had the proper hookup for your organ, there are several different pin/plug styles.

How embarrassing! A day late and a couple of bucks short again! Happy Birthday, Jim!

A West Texas cowboy was herding his cows in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. he driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, Ray Ban sunglasses and YSL tie, leans out the window and asks the cowboy, "If I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, will you give me a calf?" The cowboy looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?" The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects it to his AT&T cell phone and surfs to a NASA page on the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite navigation system to get an exact fix on his location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the area in an ultra-high- resolution photo. The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg, Germany. Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses a MS-SQL database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response. Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet printer and finally turns to the cowboy and says, "You have exactly 1,586 cows and calves." "That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says the cowboy. He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on amused as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car. Then the cowboy says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what your business is, can I have something? The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why not?" "You're a Congressman for the U.S. government" says the Cowboy. "Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?" "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already knew, to a question I never asked. You tried to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you don't know a thing about cows........ Now give me back my dog."

1965, I was fifteen, playing rock'n'roll at local teen towns and school functions. I joined the Musician's Union when I turned 16 so I could get permits to play in bars.

I carried mine in a trailer with a ramp door, organ dollies, and if there was more than two steps getting into a gig, three other band members with strong backs and weak minds - and only one of them could be a drummer! (No offense meant, Randy!)