Gary Brooker dies aged 76
 

Underrated in my estimation.

R.I.P Gary

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60485697

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mb3iPP-tHdA

This is very sad news. I had featured Gary Brooker in the Subsim Music thread last year and his live rendition of Whiter Shade of Pale. I found this rendition to be an incredible masterpiece. The late John Lennon had said the song Whiter Shade of Pale was perhaps the greatest song ever written. HW3 had posted the original performance. as Jim said, very underrated as an artist, singer and keyboard / piano player and arranger.

Here is that that rendition once again. Gary performed this in 2006 in Denmark, 16 years ago. This song lends itself easily to a symphony orchestra arrangement and Gary gives his signature song his all backed by an orchestra. A Hammond organ / synthesizer is used in this performance as in the original. Nothing sounds like a Hammond. Just ask Steve Winwood.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=St6jyEFe5WM


Rest in peace Gary and thanks for stopping by and leaving us some great music and performances.

R.I.P Gary thank you for the music

Markus

In 1990, the Grateful Dead's then keyboardist Brent Mydland ODed on a speedball and died. Brent was very, VERY good with the Hammond. His replacement, Vince Welnick, used a sampling of four different Hammonds, which he thought was somehow better. It was not. A real Hammond through a Leslie speaker has a very distinctive sound

You are very right. Roland experimented with a number of different setups to try to approximate the sounds of a Hammond to no avail. Roland did come up with a guitar pickup setup that tied into a synthesizer that produced some incredible sounds including that of a violin.

Similarly, for most guitarists, especially those who play blues, feel that nothing beats an all tube amplifier. Tube Amps don't color the sounds of the guitar pickups in conjunction with various tone woods like ash, alder and mahogany among others. Tube amps simply amplify the sound of the guitar and pickups. It always amazed me how many guitarists that I personally knew that would get a tube amp and then " color them " with various effects like a tube screamer, Fuzz face and many other distortion units. In my opinion, distortion units like the ones I mentioned ruined the sound of the tube amps.

Fender Twin reverbs, Marshall JCM 800's and other Marshall amps and even the Fender Bassman are highly prized for their great sounds and tube driven tones. Many of these amps were made in the 60's. Fender has wisely manufactured new twin reverb amplifiers that are built to the same specs as the 1960's originals. The Traynor tube amps made in Canada also sound very much like a Marshall and for good reason. They use the same circuit diagrams / setups and materials as the Marshalls.


It's all about the tones.