Aiff at Rainbowpark Dordrecht June 15th 2008.

Yes, I do play this thing live occasionally! Very funny to have a soundcrew drooling around a 50euro organ.

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Don’t you just love youtube. An endless pitt filled with talent. Keep diggin’!

Yes, you begged and begged. And I said no, no, no, but I did it anyway. Recorded the Hammond organ to test out my new olympus portable recorder. I just set te levels, and fiddled for 2 minutes on the ol’organ. No theme, no nothing. So there you go.

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Yes, the Schlager returns. I know I just gave away the punchline with this first sentence, but there is no denying that ‘Schon ist es auf die welt zu sein’ still is a killer song. At least in my book it is….

(Thanks Curtis T. )

Scott at Modd3d installed a midi port to his microwave. Now he can defrost a corn dog by playing a few notes. That brings a few ideas to my mind for the studio. One of them is a midi controlled Coffee machine : in the middle of a session just play the ‘Coffee in Brazil’- song and within 5 minutes your prayers have been heard.

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My new years resolution is becoming true now. I bought this 1963 Hammond organ in January this year . And it took sjaak up until yesterday to finish it. So it was transformed from this lovely sweet lady:

into this beast:

The organ comes in two cases now. One for the tone-generator, and one with the keyboards and amplifier. All the contacts, soldering contacts, wires, -you name it- are brand new. The inside looks shiny, as if I walked into a music store in 1963 and bought this thing off the shelf.
Speakon connections on the back to hook it up to 2 leslie cabinets. All the keys have been painstakingly modified, felt and action has changed.
I’ve been playing it for 10 minutes and I played some lines that I normally never could do. (I swear this is true) The very first chord gave me goosebumps.

Of all the organs I played in my life, this has to be my nr. 1, and the good part of the story is: it is mine!

To clarify this story: this feels like playing a 50$ guitar for 20 years and suddenly you have a Gibson es335 1963 in your hands.

Now comes the funny part: I’ll be having an incredibly busy weekend, doing gigs all over, but I’m not allowed to bring a Hammond organ to those concerts: ‘Rob, we really need a philicorda sound this Sunday’ I couldn’t make this up.

Had a few major setbacks (private and studiowise). All is well again. Normality had been restored. Happy to be in the studio with a Uke in my hand. Again no audio today. I didn’t feel it was ready to be presented to the public. I’m pushing up the post-count in the coming weeks. Here’s a movie to annoy you a little.
Hint: you should play it at least 3 times in a row.