Jazz Burning Organ

[rhysonsax]

Ouch !

Rhys

 

[Ivan]

Interminable

 

[Colin the Bear]

Uh! I thought this was about urinary tract infection.

 

[rhysonsax]

Feel free to suggest your own favourite organ tracks ...

Rhys

 

[Nick Wyver]

Cheers Rhys! Lovely stuff. I've liked Mr Auger's stuff since the sixties and I've often thought that if I didn't play sax then a B3 would be my instrument.

 

[rhysonsax]

Cheers Rhys! Lovely stuff. I've liked Mr Auger's stuff since the sixties and I've often thought that if I didn't play sax then a B3 would be my instrument.

I'd heard the name Brian Auger but never knowingly heard him play. I was blown away by this clip when I stumbled on it.

And I've been watching a series of interview clips on YouTube and he comes across really well - lots of good stories, fantastic memory for people and places and a really genuine enthusiasm for what he does. Not too bothered about genres and labelling music styles, just being very creative.

Rhys

 

[Nick Wyver]

Feel free to suggest your own favourite organ tracks ...

Rhys

Try this then:

 

[Nick Wyver]

I've just realised the guitarist in that Atomic Rooster track is Steve Bolton who did a solo act after my band played in Ramsgate a few weeks ago.

 

[Andrew Sanders]

A few years ago I saw a clip from a sixties film with Brian Auger, Dick Heckstall Smith and John Mclaughlin in the band. Anyone recall what the film was?

 

[Nick Wyver]

A few years ago I saw a clip from a sixties film with Brian Auger, Dick Heckstall Smith and John Mclaughlin in the band. Anyone recall what the film was?

Sorry, the film's not ringing any bells. Are you sure it was Brian Auger and not Graham Bond?

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Sorry, the film's not ringing any bells. Are you sure it was Brian Auger and not Graham Bond?

You're right Nick. Graham Bond's the man. Any ideas of the film?

 

[Andrew Sanders]

Found it. Thanks @Nick Wyver "Gonks Go Beat" 1965. No sign of Mclaughlin, but Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker are on there. And doesn't Graham Bond look like @Taz

 

[Nick Wyver]

Wow!

 

[Ivan]

I'd heard the name Brian Auger but never knowingly heard him play. I was blown away by this clip when I stumbled on it.

And I've been watching a series of interview clips on YouTube and he comes across really well - lots of good stories, fantastic memory for people and places and a really genuine enthusiasm for what he does. Not too bothered about genres and labelling music styles, just being very creative.

Rhys

I am impressed.... really impressed... by his playing. And I have become a bit of a Hammond devotee in recent times...that is an impressive left hand

BUT

He gives the singer almost no chance to do her stuff. She might as well be hanging around for a bus for five minutes, sing for thirty seconds then continue waiting for that elusive lift. Meanwhile the king of keyboard(s) uses the other players as a light seasoning to keep his audience salivating but he's offering only one flavour; so for me the ensemble performance is a fail

Plus, let's face it, the keyboard player's sweat dropping between the Hammond keys didn't short the capacitors and start the electrical fire that your title had me eagerly waiting for...............

 

[altissimo]

He gives the singer almost no chance to do her stuff

I think it's just how that particular tune is arranged, other numbers seem to give her plenty of opportunity - after all, she is his daughter...
and I think it's his son on drums

 

[Taz]

@Andrew Sanders , It can’t be me, I’ve never the sort of drugs that make me move like that!

 

[kevgermany]

Plus, let's face it, the keyboard player's sweat dropping between the Hammond keys didn't short the capacitors and start the electrical fire that your title had me eagerly waiting for...............

I was deeply disappointed as well.

 

[Ivan]

I think it's just how that particular tune is arranged, other numbers seem to give her plenty of opportunity - after all, she is his daughter...
and I think it's his son on drums

Fairynuff

I was coming to the recording without prior knowledge, but in the cold light of day I see that context is everything

 

[Colin the Bear]

Favourite Organ tracks...

View: https://youtu.be/A2l0z9SUEyk

View: https://youtu.be/WKNOlDtZluU

 

[altissimo]

Are We Burnin' ...?. Burn Baby Burn..
Booker Y And The NG's set on Stax Revue Live At The 5/4 Ballroom is a lively listen

View: https://youtu.be/oxWri4ZJT6E


and of course it's got this.. played at a sprightly tempo

View: https://youtu.be/gpck4c2lmrQ