[HAM] Auger chop

[Steve Beach]

Jeez, that's poor quality video.   Obviously, he has more than one organ. 
That one looks like a Bill Beer chop.  The one he had last week on tour in 
Canada was more like a stock looking B-3, still painted silver sparkle. 
The chopped one looks like th organ on his instructional DVD "Insights of 
the Keyboard Master".  I'll have to take a closer look.

Thanks!

Re: the Leslies, yes that's what he said to me for studiio gigs.   I have 
some really old stuff of his, and he's heard with a Leslie on a couple of 
cuts.

Steve B.




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From: <goffmac747 at aol.com>
To: <hammond at zeni.net>
Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2007 12:07 PM
Subject: Re: [HAM] Auger chop


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> Thanks for the in- depth. From what I see on the net, he has handles and 
> the B3 side shape is gone. 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nIZY4kLrAo&mode=related&search=
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> It's cool you get to converse with him. Saw him years ago in San Diego 
> when someone I knew who produced his show asked me what I thought of 
> Brian. The producer did not know much.
> Never saw him use Leslies. But does he do recording work for other 
> projects that need Leslies?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Beach <steve at secludedbeach.anikast.ca>
> To: The Hammond Forum <hammond at zeni.net>
> Sent: Sun, 24 Jun 2007 9:01 pm
> Subject: Re: [HAM] Auger chop
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> His website refers to a place called "Organ Planet", but they have no
> presence on the web that I could find.
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> His silver-sparkle B-3 doesn't appear to be chopped as the legs and bass
> pedal assembly with expression pedal are still intact.   He does have a 
> few
> mods though, which I asked him about recently.   One was a percussion 
> boost
> mod on the lower block of the lower manual.  He claims he doesn't use this
> anymore.  I also asked him about some insert jacks which were just below 
> the
> percussion boost mod.   He said those were so he could hook up to 4 
> Leslies
> for when he's doing studio work and someone wants him to use Leslie's for
> recording.   I think he was pulling my leg on that one, as I've never seen
> Leslie hookups in the location.  It looked more like an effects loop for
> getting to and from his adjacent mixing rack.
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> He also has a small rack beside his rig, which includes all the standard
> reverbs, compressors, etc.  JBL or Carvin monitors.
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