[HAM] don't add up

[joe d]

Well, whatever I guess...
I personally can't get satisfied either unfortunately.  It became annoying 
fast. I'm sorry but I'd rather be honest than BS here.  Perfect example of 
someone very ready to move forward with his learning after having fun with 
the blues and feel. I don't want this to be a huge bash thread so i'll stop 
here, but it IS a good example of some traps one might want to avoid.

Plus, there's no need to hit b3 keys like that.  You can't/don't force in 
soul - you feel it and let it fall out.

Again, he's probably a good guy.





>From: Scott Hawthorn <organfreak at donobi.net>
>Reply-To: The Hammond Forum <hammond at zeni.net>
>To: The Hammond Forum <hammond at zeni.net>
>Subject: Re: [HAM] don't add up
>Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2007 06:51:19 -0700
>
>At 03:34 AM 6/4/2007, joe d wrote:
> >and then...some things don't add up sometimes.
> >:|  sumpin' bothers me about this workshop...and one could say it begins
> >with a topic named the "Jimmy Smith Style"...?????
> >Gonna need more than a workshop for a topic title like that, and you're
> >gonna have to really learn JOS to teach it.  I don't feel the man (JImmy)
> >was just a lotta blues runs/tonality. Yes, he certainly played the
> >blues...but there's so much more than that which can be told.
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNa66rwMkiE&mode=related&search=
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYzbU5nwJPk&mode=related&search=
>
>In the first video, Pierre is playing straight boogie-woogie piano on the
>organ. Got exactly NOTHING to do with Jimmy Smith! That bugs me too. In the
>second one, he does a piece of Jimmy's famous "Organ Grinder Swing," but he
>quits playing bass on the turnaround, in order to use both hands to play
>the wrong chords. Those particular chords (the correct, original ones) have
>given more than one excellent organist fits. I think this guy plays very
>well, but I agree with you, to put "Jimmy Smith Style" in the title is
>being more than a little generous.
>
> >and perverbial blues runs/stabs with stock funk beats (hey, we've all 
>done
> >it).
> >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n68HSmboKo&mode=related&search=
> >
> >i don't know him, I'm sure he's a great guy... I'm not out to knock
> >this...but this "workshop" flirts with questionable to me.
>
>I thought this was really good. Simple, effective, funky, and,
>oh.............nothing to do with Jimmy Smith! Check out this one: he's
>playing on a beautiful New B-3, doing Jack McDuff's classic "Can't Get
>Satisfied" (originally on the "Tobacco Road" LP). How odd, I hadn't heard
>that tune in years, and yet it came up in a private conversation I'm having
>with another player, just two days ago. Anywho, here:
>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oKwuaunn7Y
>
>
>
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