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alan

Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« on: 31 October, 2008, 12:32:05 pm »
Won't Get Fooled Again : The Who

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #1 on: 31 October, 2008, 12:41:32 pm »
The piano in Sweet Home Alabama.
"Yes please" said Squirrel "biscuits are our favourite things."

Really Ancien

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #2 on: 31 October, 2008, 12:51:03 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9jp3de50_d8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9jp3de50_d8&rel=1</a>
Most people think of it as a guitar riff but it doesn't have any power until Jon Lord comes in.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/N0FuFfcCZiE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/N0FuFfcCZiE&rel=1</a>
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/ZvQIobg0BwU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/ZvQIobg0BwU&rel=1</a>

Amusing to watch Emerson play so fast but he never really got any expression into his playing.

Damon.

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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #3 on: 31 October, 2008, 12:51:49 pm »
He was good at throwing knives into pianos though...
It is simpler than it looks.

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #4 on: 31 October, 2008, 12:59:41 pm »
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/9jp3de50_d8&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/9jp3de50_d8&rel=1</a>
Most people think of it as a guitar riff but it doesn't have any power until Jon Lord comes in.

I'm no fan of the organ, but with DP.  :thumbsup:
Frenchie - Train à Grande Vitesse

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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #5 on: 31 October, 2008, 01:00:20 pm »
Voodoo Chile by The Jimi Hendrix Experience

(not to be confused with Voodoo Chile (Slight Return))
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RJ

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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #6 on: 31 October, 2008, 01:01:41 pm »
The Charlatans <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/aZI1BQzY-nU&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/aZI1BQzY-nU&rel=1</a>

Jools Holland's contribution to The The's Uncertain Smile


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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #7 on: 31 October, 2008, 01:12:54 pm »
Piano in Layla, Green Onions

Really Ancien

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #8 on: 31 October, 2008, 01:30:59 pm »
This performance of Green Onions from Norway circa 1966? shows the roots of prog rock. Also notable for a Steve Cropper Telecaster solo reckoned by some to be his best.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-7QSMyz5rg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/U-7QSMyz5rg&rel=1</a>

Damon.

alan

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #9 on: 31 October, 2008, 01:35:39 pm »
This performance of Green Onions from Norway circa 1966? shows the roots of prog rock. Also notable for a Steve Cropper Telecaster solo reckoned by some to be his best.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-7QSMyz5rg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/U-7QSMyz5rg&rel=1</a>

Damon.

Terrific :thumbsup:
I recollect that being a favourite Saturday night tune at the Top Rank for a long while.
Major nostalgia attack  ;D

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #10 on: 31 October, 2008, 01:41:28 pm »
Virtually anything by Professor Longhair - maybe Every Day I Have The Blues, or Tipitina.

Flying_Monkey

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #11 on: 31 October, 2008, 02:02:38 pm »
This performance of Green Onions from Norway circa 1966? shows the roots of prog rock. Also notable for a Steve Cropper Telecaster solo reckoned by some to be his best.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/U-7QSMyz5rg&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/U-7QSMyz5rg&rel=1</a>

Except prog rock was a hideous self-indulgent mess that probably should never have been born. IMHO of course.  ;)

The really good stuff that came out of and after the 60s R&B explosion was back in black music: War, Sly and the Family Stone, GSH, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield...

Back to the OP: hasn't anyone ever head of Jimmy Smith or Jimmy McGriff? Those guys were far better Hammond players than most others. In Britain, the two best mod players were probably: Ian McLaggan of The Small Faces (listen to some of their instrumentals as well as rock'n'soul tracks like Song of a Baker and Afterglow); and of course Steve Winwood - I mean the Spencer Davis Group tracks, Keep on Running, Gimme Some Lovin' and I'm a Man all piss all over anything that The Who have to contribute to the history of the organ.  :)

Really Ancien

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #12 on: 31 October, 2008, 02:13:08 pm »
What they're playing on the radio now.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/6IEp5i9K7xQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/6IEp5i9K7xQ&rel=1</a>

Damon.

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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #13 on: 31 October, 2008, 02:37:12 pm »
Straighten Out - Dave Greenfield of The Stranglers
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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #14 on: 31 October, 2008, 02:41:30 pm »
Saturn 5 by Inspiral Carpets.

Really Ancien

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #15 on: 31 October, 2008, 02:48:14 pm »
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Except prog rock was a hideous self-indulgent mess that probably should never have been born. IMHO of course.  ;)

The really good stuff that came out of and after the 60s R&B explosion was back in black music: War, Sly and the Family Stone, GSH, Marvin Gaye, Curtis Mayfield...

Except that Booker T and the MGs featured the distinctly caucasian Steve Cropper and 'Duck' Dunn, they were the house band of the white owned Stax label, original home of the funk, which begat Jazz Fusion which interbred with Prog Rock,
there isn't much distance between Gong and Parliament/Funkadelic.
 Prog appealed to 13 year old boys at a loose end who wanted to listen to dense self indulgent instrumentation to extend the listening life of the one album they could afford a month. Those tunes are hard wired into our brains, so are as instantly nostalgic as an RAF greatcoat. Get to 16 or 17 and you gave away everything except Dark Side of the Moon. The only Who track to heavily feature keyboard, a VCS3 synthesiser, was 'Won't get fooled again' .
Jon Lord was always the best Hammond player in the early 70s IMHO.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/BJCTrolF3CY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/BJCTrolF3CY&rel=1</a>

Damon.

Flying_Monkey

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #16 on: 31 October, 2008, 03:54:06 pm »
Except that Booker T and the MGs featured the distinctly caucasian Steve Cropper and 'Duck' Dunn

Did I say that they didn't? I was talking about what happened afterwards. In the 70s, post Black Power, things did get rather more racially split again (The Family Stone being rather the exception - in fact a hangover of the brief period of 60s integrationism, although sonically and socio-politically very black), and my contention is that by far the most interesting musical developments took place on the black side of the divide. If one adds in reggae, the case is even stronger, because without that you couldn't have had punk and new wave that destroyed mouldy old prog rock! That of course is a personal aesthetic judgement...

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #17 on: 31 October, 2008, 04:49:46 pm »

Really Ancien

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #18 on: 31 October, 2008, 04:53:45 pm »
We're singing from the same songsheet here FM, albeit in a different key. I got rid of all my prog by the time I was 18 and transferred my alleigance to black groups, one of favourites is God made me Funky by Headhunters. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/SAfVsuVEYD0&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/SAfVsuVEYD0&rel=1</a>
But it does share a lot of features with this Gong track from two years previously.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/D09H7OkseZY&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/D09H7OkseZY&rel=1</a>
The syncopation is better on the Headhunters track, but they share the basic funk style, there is a Charlie Parker inspired sax solo in both and the use of electronically treated instruments is common to the two.

Damon.

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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #19 on: 31 October, 2008, 04:56:37 pm »
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Flying_Monkey

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #20 on: 31 October, 2008, 05:31:20 pm »

Really Ancien

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #21 on: 31 October, 2008, 07:00:27 pm »
I always liked the piano in this.
YouTube - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
But there's so much to like, the guitar, the bass, the drums, the sax.

Damon.

Flying_Monkey

Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #22 on: 31 October, 2008, 09:09:36 pm »
I always liked the piano in this.
YouTube - Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick - Ian Dury
But there's so much to like, the guitar, the bass, the drums, the sax.

Exactly - they were a really tight outfit.  :)


Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #23 on: 01 November, 2008, 01:21:49 am »
Self-flaggelation aside, this is my favourite track from the first LP I ever bought with my own money! I'm nearly sorry about it too ...

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Re: Organ/Piano "riffs". Your favourites
« Reply #24 on: 01 November, 2008, 02:30:20 pm »
YouTube - Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

Still cant get this out of my head scince watching "Manhunter"