I've never cared for Green Onions, it is a tune that goes nowhere. It has a catchy little phrase but after the first several bars, I'm ready for something else. I have played the tune in the past (wrongly I might add) but now cringe when sitting in with a group and someone suggests playing it.

As for the video, did anyone else catch the fact that several times when he says 'Fifths' he is actually playing a 'Fourth' and when he shows the drawbar registration of 808808008 that he also says he uses percussion. The top drawbar drops out when percussion is activated. This can be internally changed to another drawbar if desired, but I don't think that is the case here.

As for a real Hammond versus the many clones, there is nothing like sitting at a real Hammond. Between the mechanical aspects of the tone generator and the key contact system and the old tube circuitry, an original Hammond is a living, breathing instrument with tons of subtleties that has yet to be achieved within todays digital circuitry. And to say that any arranger or workstation keyboard can come close to duplicating that sound, those words could only come from a person who has never known or has forgot what a real Hammond sounds like or how it feels to play one. Even though instruments like the current Hammond-Suzuki instruments, or the Nord, or the many others out there, and even some arrangers/workstations can produce a sound that may sometime even fool a Hammond aficionado, I assure you that the person doing the playing is missing out on a huge part of the Hammond experience.

My first Hammond was an M3 through a Leslie 145 back in 1973. Since then I have owned 3 B3's w/122's, a B2 w/TrekII perc w/147, a BCV w/147, a XB3/122XB (still have) and I also own and use for gigs the XK3 Pro System with a Leslie 3300. I'm no expert on the Hammond organ, but I do know quite a bit about them and certainly enough to realize why the real thing is still a sought after piece of yesteryear.

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Wm. David McMahan
LearnMyKeyboard
JazzItUp Band
The Modulators