Originally posted by ianmcnll:
Did you have it chopped...it was a favorite for chopping, as was the M-3?
My M-3 is still in use a studio here in Cape Breton...it's painted flat black (it got pretty beat up), and they are using a Leslie 147 with the Leslie Combo Preamp I sold with the organ.
Those were the days.
Ian
Yep. Took a circular saw to my M102 a couple of inches below the generator housing and cut a hand-hole at either end of the top half. It took 10 multi-pin connectors to hook the wiring between the two halves. A real amateur job.
I originally bought an L102 in 1965 and gigged with it for about a year. That one wasn't chopped and I was concerned for its cabinetry. So it was one guy at each corner to lift it in and out of the van. Anyway, we played some dingy joint one night and, in a back corner of the stage, covered by an old curtain, stood an M102, beer stains, cigarette burns an' all. So a word with the manager guy, who was ogling my pristine L102, and I walked out with the M102 in exchange. You know, so what if this did gain a few more battle scars.
To those who think that might have been a poor exchange, well the M102's sound is a lot more B3-like than the L102, and that was my sole reason for the swap. That old M battled on on the road for many years after that, and it still does duty in our old guitarist's studio. Built like a tank.