[HAM] Jimmy Smith's B3

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At 10:50 PM 3/9/2007, Alan Alsobrook wrote:
>It's been quite I while since I worked on it, but I would say that is
>was his modified Organ, I know there was quite a bit of after market
>changes applied. As for what they specifically were I can't really
>remember at this time. I still have all my old service tickets
>somewhere, so I should have the one that Jimmy signed in the pile if I
>get excited enough to go look.
>I took this service call in 1982 or 83..

Yours is an odd story to be sure. I knew Jimmy; Jimmy HATED add-ons. It was 
a point of pride for him, in my opinion. And possibly an unwillingness to 
take chances playing something that might not behave normally.

He gigged on my C-3 quite a few times in Seattle. The first time I 
introduced it to him, I tried to show him the variable chorus control, 
variable percussion volume control, and other such customizations. He kept 
on interrupting with, "I don't play that shit! I just play ORGAN!" 
(Meaning, stock organs.) In an older interview, he was asked if his organ 
was beefed-up. His answer, "NOTHING I play is beefed-up. I'M beefed-up!" No 
truer statement was ever made by Mr. Smith.

Furthermore, even by the early eighties, the days of a player like this 
touring with his own organ were long gone. The entire game is played with 
backline rentals. The fact that you remember this but remember nothing at 
all about the organ itself seems, uh, suspicious.