Hammond B3 is going to Illinois

I decided to take the organ to Illinois with me to the Cornerstone Festival.Everybody is using “keyboards,”to make organ sounds in live concerts and on recordings.The so called “duplicate sounds,” are cheesy at best.Ever notice Greg Allman always uses the real Hammond organ in his shows?World class groups like “Deep Purple,”now deceased Billy Preston and all the great classics used the real thing.

Everyone says”you gonna move that thing,that will be a lot of work.”Well just call me the hardest working man in the music ministry.Once I get it on the stage an up and running the crowd will know the difference.It’s time to give our God the best we can do.I can certainly do this for his glory.

Organ on the road

The Hammond B3 and the Blues

Portugal 2009 at "Rock on Christmas"

With all the glut of “keyboards,” on the market few people consider where it all began.Before digital anything, stuff still had to get done.Pianos were tuned by ear and organs amplifed by vacum tubes.Rock and roll and blues are very closely kin.The drums drive the beat,The bass drives the bottom,guitars make it chunky and the Hammond makes it smooth.This I learned from a road trip with Mylon Lefevre.
Now I bought this organ from a neighbor 9 years ago to resale and turn a buck.After three years in my dining room my wife is weary of the thing (it is quite large),and wants it out.I asked God please help me sell it.God says no I want you to play it!
I put the organ in the church six years ago and guess who plays it every Sunday,that little ole organ picker me.

You have all heard the sound from the likes of Greg Allman,Rush,Yes,and about all Gospel music.God truly inspired Mr.Hammond when he came up with his invention.Thank you sir.