Help me find songs where someone jams on an electric organ for a really long time

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inspired by "Ou C'est Lui Ou C'est Moi" off the African Scream Contest comp--i'm looking for stuff where the band gets a little vamp going and some poor soul has to jam on a cheap/old electric organ (aka the instrument with no dynamic range whatsoever) for several minutes.

obv this is not about hating, it's about the awesomeness of extended electric organ jams.

call all destroyer, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:05 (seventeen years ago)

alice coltrane

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2009 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

would the doors qualify?

Redknapp out (darraghmac), Friday, 30 January 2009 16:08 (seventeen years ago)

yeah the doors have organ jams but they are also the doors, unfortunately.

i didn't know alice coltrane ever did that. any of her albums in particular?

call all destroyer, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:09 (seventeen years ago)

alice coltrane "transfiguration"

plus:

deep purple

Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:16 (seventeen years ago)

jon lord doing his thing

Neotropical pygmy squirrel, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:17 (seventeen years ago)

i know she plays organ on translinear light (her final album?) and universal consciousness, but other people would know her early stuff better.

Tracy Michael Jordan Catalano (Jordan), Friday, 30 January 2009 16:18 (seventeen years ago)

Larry Young!!

ellaguru, Friday, 30 January 2009 16:41 (seventeen years ago)

IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA

Jesus Christ, Attorney at Law (res), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:26 (seventeen years ago)

Charlatans - "Weirdo" (and other songs, but that's my favorite organ break)

anything by Brian Auger

Ricky Apples (Pillbox), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:36 (seventeen years ago)

X: "The World's a Mess (It's in my Kiss)"

zero learnt from nero (Neil S), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:39 (seventeen years ago)

Lee Michaels. "Do You Know What I Mean" was his famous single, but much of his material was extended rhythmic vamping with him on B3 and a drummer, one of the original two men bands. The bass isn't missed because Michaels handled it well on organ. Lee Michaels Live and Lee Michaels are primo examples. On CD, an anthology was pushed out the door a few years ago.

Gorge, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:40 (seventeen years ago)

BO HANSSON. He Has an organ in the woods!
And he's got this thing. too:
http://www.enricobassi.it/atticthoughts.JPG

Trip Maker, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

Del Shannon - "runaway" has the best clavioline solo I've ever heard. it's not TOO long but it's satisfying.

throwbookatface (skygreenleopard), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:52 (seventeen years ago)

album version of "Loose Booty" from 'America Eats Its Young' ... one of Bernie's best and insane solos

Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 30 January 2009 17:53 (seventeen years ago)

Is a clavinet close enough? Because there's version of Stevie Wonder doing "Superstition" on Sesame street you can find at youtube that's around 9 minutes.

Dear Tacos, how are you? I am fine. The weather is nice. I miss yo (Oilyrags), Friday, 30 January 2009 17:54 (seventeen years ago)

Maybe Dyke & The Blazers, Sly & the Family Stone, or early Mott the Hoople. I can't think of any particular tracks that really stretch out at length like you ask right now, but they all have the organ jamming.

james k polk, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:04 (seventeen years ago)

at about 2:50... not really long time unfortunately but you get the idea of its infinity.

ian, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:07 (seventeen years ago)

Alice Coltrane thirded! "Battle at Armageddon" is an awesome jam with just organ and drums.

Tuomas, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:08 (seventeen years ago)

Graham Bond fits your bill. I'm most familiar with the Holy Magick period but the 60s stuff probably foregrounds the organ more.

Also if you've never heard John Cale & Terry Riley's Church of Anthrax you should do that asap.

Hoes Cartwright (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 January 2009 18:11 (seventeen years ago)

Hoes Cartwright (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 January 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

first Atomic Rooster record, when there was no guitar, only Crane jamming away...

Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:12 (seventeen years ago)

yeah early atomic rooster is dope

crackers is biters (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 30 January 2009 18:14 (seventeen years ago)

This is fucking mindbending in the best possible sense

Hoes Cartwright (Noodle Vague), Friday, 30 January 2009 18:15 (seventeen years ago)

SISTER RAY

dan selzer, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:16 (seventeen years ago)

and the Runaway clavioline is this:

http://www.delshannon.com/maxmusitron.htm

dan selzer, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:17 (seventeen years ago)

Some good Gregg Allman jamming on the longer Fillmore East tracks -- esp. "Stormy Monday" and "In Memory of Elizabeth Reed" -- but he's kind of buried in the mix.

WmC, Friday, 30 January 2009 18:23 (seventeen years ago)

There must be a record, or quite a few, I believe, whereon Eddy Louiss jams his organ electrically with lotsa flare and swoop. Alas, I know not the titles of those records, I've just seen him do that thing on TV; 'twas a concert recorded sometime in the past century, most probably. Sounded really wonderful.

t**t, Friday, 30 January 2009 20:03 (seventeen years ago)

"9ft Underground" by Caravan is the shit! 20 min track, 3/4 of which is organ jam.

Pashmina, Friday, 30 January 2009 20:04 (seventeen years ago)

...And no one's mentioned Keith Emerson so far?

t**t, Friday, 30 January 2009 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

Brian Auger

The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 January 2009 21:28 (seventeen years ago)

The Soft Machine did quite a few of these.

Charlie Rose Nylund, Friday, 30 January 2009 21:35 (seventeen years ago)

charlie beat me to it... was gonna suggest Mike Ratledge.

Jack Battery-Pack, Friday, 30 January 2009 21:41 (seventeen years ago)

Brainticket - Cottonwood Hill, which is actually about 30 minutes of freakout krautrock organ jamming.

Matt #2, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:31 (seventeen years ago)

^^^Good call

Trip Maker, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:35 (seventeen years ago)

96 Tears by ? and the Mysterians, duuuuuuuude. Or at least that's what my girlfriend told me to suggest to you...

brightscreamer, Friday, 30 January 2009 22:36 (seventeen years ago)

Sun City Girls CD "Severed Finger With A Wedding Ring" has an awesome 10-minute jam on it, Richard Bishop on electric organ.

sleeve, Saturday, 31 January 2009 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

Jimi Hendrix - "Voodoo Chile"

Mr. Snrub, Saturday, 31 January 2009 02:52 (seventeen years ago)

Some (all?) of the stuff on The Great Lost Sun Ra Albums? I haven't listened to it in a while.

If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Saturday, 31 January 2009 02:55 (seventeen years ago)

There are some really lol/tedious James Brown sides like this.

The Reverend, Saturday, 31 January 2009 02:59 (seventeen years ago)

The Genetic Method / Chest Fever - from the Band on their live Rock of Ages set.

that's not my post, Saturday, 31 January 2009 04:36 (seventeen years ago)

I was gonna name check Lee Michaels, and Grahame Bond, but for pure Hammond grinding I'm quite fond of Gregg Rolie's work on the 1st 2 Santana albums

factcheckr, Saturday, 31 January 2009 15:09 (seventeen years ago)

Zombies - "Indication" - cannot believe this was a single.

the higgs, Saturday, 31 January 2009 17:28 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.j-notes.com/myimages/Jimmy_Smith.jpg

hope this helps (Granny Dainger), Saturday, 31 January 2009 17:42 (seventeen years ago)

seven years pass...

I think one of the most genius things about the British blues boom is that a whole lot of classical keyboard training led to some great rock organ playing. I love the sound myself. It's a deep well too. Spooky Tooth's "Evil Woman" is one of the ilk that I am grooving on now.

earlnash, Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:42 (ten years ago)

so who would win a kacey vs. miranda poll?

stanley krubrick (rip van wanko), Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:46 (ten years ago)

lol wrong thread sorry

stanley krubrick (rip van wanko), Thursday, 25 February 2016 05:47 (ten years ago)


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