Green Onions

[Cosmo Blues]

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[walkingman]

1. I love the days of the Hammond B-3 ☮

[ProfessorGAC]

7. My Dad Had An H-100

But, he has a friend through my Cub Scout days that had a C-3 with a Leslie 147 cabinet.
Same as a B-3 but even less mobile and had the locking lid to cover things up when not in use.
My first piano teacher also had a 147 cabinet but I don't remember the organ being big. Maybe an M series like the one used on Whiter Shade Of Pale.
My dad's was nice, but had different circuitry than a B-3 so it didn't sound the same. Didn't have the key click or the percussive pop of the B-3.
I have a killer B-3 patch on my QS-8.1, with the mod wheel used to adjust distortion to get that Jon Lord growl. The sliders function as drawbar, so I can change timbre mid note.
It's not quite a B-3, but still awfully authentic.

[walkingman]

8. Cool - Have you heard of the Vox Continental?

I thought "96 Tears" (? and the Mysterians) was a Hammond but turns out it was a Vox.

Great sounds....☮

[ProfessorGAC]

9. I Had A Jaguar

That was the Continental's little brother. I got it for only $75.
We didn't do the music that a Vox organ worked on so I used a Big Muff Pi to add growl and roll off the highs. As close to Deep Purple as I could get.
Fortunately, I had access to a Micromoog, an Ella's String Machine, & a Wurlitzer electric piano. So I had a fill rig.
City of 75,000 and I was one of only 2 guys in town that had a full rig.

[Leghorn21]

2. After surveying myself last year, it turns out that this is

MY FAVORITE SONG ON THE ENTIRE PLANET

I couldn’t name another song that *gets* to me as much as Green Onions!!

Thanks, Cosmo!

[3catwoman3]

3. Why does it get to you so much?

[Leghorn21]

4. Ultimately, cat, it's just the *coolest* song I ever heard

There are plenty of cool songs, but from those opening notes?
Yeah, this is the coolest.

[3catwoman3]

5. I remember hearing this in Jr High, and watching 2 of my classmates...

…demonstrate the dance in gym class. They were 2 of the “cool kids,” and I was massively envious of their ability to dance, and of the female classmate’s very “in” wardrobe and beautiful blonde hair.

[Leghorn21]

6. YES, what a wonderful SPECIFIC memory, cat!!! --- "Green Onions" was released in 1962, when I was 11, so

I’m a couple years behind you (?), but I love that hearing this song takes you to a place you once were and how you felt in the moment!! (I do not, sadly, recall when I first heard it, probably 3, 4? years later)

Which reminds ME of a very specific moment in *gym class*, 1967 — one of us brought in a portable record player, apparently, and a song called “Funky Broadway” (still love that song and Wilson Pickett!!) —- now I don’t know how, but one of my friends knew how to do that dance — you just kind of bend over and bring your arms up together in time to the best, BOOM! And that’s pretty much how I danced from then on out!

I grew a quick dislike of “music videos” when they showed up, because to me, that robbed listeners of that first moment they ever heard a song —- the big tunes of the ‘60s and ‘70s, if I hear one, I usually go right to an exact memory of where I was when I first heard it (magic moments!) —— videos, to me, replaced those very personal memories with artificial images and ideas that took away from people’s deep connections to music —

I’m just sayin!!!