GIANTS OF THE ORGAN IN CONCERT

[.:.impossible]

Bad ass organ sh!t from Paul's Mall in Boston. I picked it up on vinyl for $6 a couple of weeks ago and HOT DAMN. Two tunes per side. Four sides. Two organs. Three guitars. Drums and percussion. I think if the whole jam band scene hadn't heard any other music other than this 2LP, it would be exactly where it is today. Take that at face value, but I hear so much in this music that came AFTER it... and this is just one night at a club with the mics on. This album may have been discussed elsewhere, but I had to throw it out there. This is a lot of fun. Find it!

As a side note, I also picked up a Von Freeman Willis Jackson album on Muse for cheap that burns in an entirely different way. Man, I'm really enjoying the turntable.

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

was playing this disc for company last night in a moment of respite. no one but me enjoyed. idiots.

I don't play ANYTHING for company. No point in getting annoyed about other people.

Good album though.

MG

[Jim Alfredson]

This is one of the albums that made me want to play organ, the other being a double-LP Best Of collection of Jimmy Smith. Not to nitpick, but I think McGriff had Kools sitting on top of the organ, not Newports. You can tell the entire thing is improvised and the funniest part to me is how unprepared and downright scared the all the guitarists sound. The poor guys are struggling to keep up and McGriff and Holmes just keep going after each other.

Sloppy but very entertaining and soulfu.

[Noj]

I have two volumes of this pairing, Giants Of The Organ and Giants Of The Organ Come Together. Virtually the same except there's only two guitarists on Come Together, George Freeman replaces Mike Elf and Leon Cook next to O'Donel Levy. Cool stuff, I dig how they stretch out!

[Soul Stream]

I think if the whole jam band scene hadn't heard any other music other than this 2LP, it would be exactly where it is today

I totally agree. I was listening to this a couple of days ago and thought the same exact thing.

[JSngry]

Could somebody please put up a photo of the smokes in question?

[JSngry]

The Kool packaging back then was predominantly white, not green like it is today, so if you don't have that older memory & a glimpse of it is all there is, you might think it's Newports, which used to be mostly green in packaging, but not by then, not as I remember it. But no matter about all that, it's the shade of green that will tell the truth, and thank god it wasn't Salem, truly menthol for white people who thought that menthol = candy.

[JSngry]

alfredo is most probably right...bad job outta me in a big spot.

Dude, it's a just pack of fucking cigarettes, dig? You're ok!

[Dan Gould]

and thank god it wasn't Salem, truly menthol for white people who thought that menthol = candy.

My Mom smoked Salem. I remember blowing out her matches for her.

[JSngry]

Sorry man, no dis to your mom (or to anybody, really) intended. It's just that I put in a lot of years smoking Kools (including a few weeks on the unfiltered jobs, YIKES) & finally switched to Newports for a few years before finally quitting. Salems were the other "major" menthol brand of the time, & I never could get a taste for them. Too sweet (in a cigarette way, of course).

Menthol is a lifestyle, it really is. People who don't smoke can't really understand this, but it is. And like all lifestyles, there are "camps".

What I really miss (oh wait, I wait, I don't miss any cigarette any more, right? yeah...) are Players menthol. A hip-ass box and some not-bad smokes inside.

I know a drummer who was religious about More menthols. He was a tall, skinny guy who walked like a drummer (if that makes any sense), and that long skinny green More pack & those long skinny 120s made for a total image, if you know what I mean (and if you don't, count your blessings).

[The Magnificent Goldberg]

We had some menthol ciggies over here, but I can't remember the brands. I thought they were horrible. Give me a proper ciggie that I make myself with nobbut tobacco in it.

MG