[HAM] How do I get overdrive on an L-100 spinet?

[DougJ1986 at aol.com]

first, I was 4 in 1970 when ELP playing isle of wight festival!  lol I  meant 
i have been playing guitar for 20 years not i am 20 years old..... ah to  be 
young again.....
 
second, - i could line out into the marshall head which has 4 speaker  
outputs and i could use one of them for my Leslie model 16 which would give me  
swirly whirly!  woo hooo.......
 
which leads to the question how do I create a line out from the back of the  
L-101 without doing damage....
 
Thanks guys, 
Doug
 
 
In a message dated 8/11/2006 11:31:57 A.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
ijackson at lancaster.gov.uk writes:

As a  guitarist you will be aware that 'that overdriven sound' is a
pretty vague  description...

The Leslie distortion, as exemplified by Santana (first  3 albums), Deep
Purple (early and late, but NOT Smoke/Highway Star etc),  Steppenwolf,
Uriah Heep etc requires a hot organ signal going into a  tube-amplified
Leslie, everything on 10 (or above), and (optionally)  various degraded
or out-of-spec components in the signal path to add to the  general
mayhem.

The Marshall distortion (eg Purple's Machine Head  album, and the related
'Making Of...' DVD) simply requires a lineout from  your L. This will be
plenty hot enough (and then some) to make any tube  geetar amp scream...

Unfortunately, with the latter option, you'll have  no Leslie swirl, and
only the L's cheesy vibrato channel to provide any  animation.

I may be wrong (???), but I think Keith Emerson's ELP debut  at the Isle
of Wight Festival (you were minus 16 at the time!) used this  second
setup - and was actually able to get feedback...

--UK  Jake