Gary Brooker dies aged 76

[Torvald Von Mansee]

Originally Posted by Commander Wallace

A Hammond organ / synthesizer is used in this performance as in the original. Nothing sounds like a Hammond. Just ask Steve Winwood.

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