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Lesson time: (0min 55sec)
Joe Glossop tells the story of how he fell for the Hammond organ as a teenager, hooked by records from Steve Winwood, Jimmy McGriff and Georgie Fame.
This lesson is part of the course Authentic Hammond Language for Soul & Jazz
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Lesson transcript:
I got started playing when I was about 13 or 14. I had a really good piano teacher who was trying to get me into gigging, which is what I wanted to do.
He played me a few records by:
I became obsessed with it. He very kindly lent me an old organ of his that was in storage, and it all just kind of kicked off from there.
I was just obsessed. I heard the tone on records and didn't know what it was.
Then he played me a couple of things, and I sort of thought,
"Hang on, that's that thing that I've always loved but didn't know what it was."
Suddenly, I was just hooked.
Joe Glossop is a keyboard player from Sheffield who has made his name on the Hammond organ. He currently holds the organ chair in Tom Jones's touring band, and has played with Van Morrison and James Hunter, as well as on piano and Rhodes. His courses get the real Hammond sound out of any keyboard - drawbar registration, the Leslie, the walking-bass left hand, and the comping and soloing vocabulary of the soul-jazz, blues and rock organ traditions, from Jimmy Smith to Booker T. read more
