Lenny Dee - Southern Nights

Lenny Dee performing "Southern Nights" on November 2, 1982 at his club, Lenny Dee's Kings Inn at Treasure Island, Florida. Lenny plays his customized white Hammond Model A. At 2:45 into the video is the solovox, an small single-keyboard instrument attached to Lenny's Model A. A "growling" voice on the solovox was a trademark of Lenny's unique sound. On drums is Lenny's son, J. R.. Singer Pete Brady introduces Lenny. This is a clip from a personal video. This is the only video I am aware of that shows Lenny playing his custom white model A Hammond (please let me know if you aware of any other videos of Lenny playing this instrument!). This was the beginning of the second of two shows Lenny played in his club that evening. Many more clips of Lenny performing music and comedy skits taken from my video can be found in my YouTube channel.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• greatgizmos
• hammond
• organ
• b3
• plantation
• boogie
• solovox

[GabberCentrafuge]

BASS DAMNIT

WERES THE BASS

[epanody]

Awesome!! Man, why did I have to be born too late? :-D

[kghutson]

I had an X66 with the same tape delay Lenny used. You have to have a two head tape machine, one head with record, one playback. The speed of the tape determines the echo you get. The technician has to run a feed from the preamp of the organ to the input of the tape machine.

However today, with the very inexpensive echo and ambiance devices you can achieve the same results.

[flyingfingersmark]

It comes off the preamp, then into a echo unit ,then out to the phono jack by the expression pedal on a B3! It comes thru my Leslie 122 and a PR-40 speakers ! Mine also comes thru top manual only or thru all manuals and pedals ! I use a Digitech X-series digital Delay, model XDD ! hope this helps !! flyingfingersmark !

[pianodon]

I am wondering where in the loop do you put the tape delay? Does it go between the organ and the Leslie or where exactlY???

Thanks!

[flyingfingersmark]

thank you sooo much for finding video's of lenny playing the white model A Hammond live at his club ! I met lenny several times and seen his show in person ,he spent 1/2 hour talking with me ! I have every album lenny ever recorded and have designed my own Hammond B3 as close as possible to his !

[kghutson]

Fantastic! Lenny had a style that was bubbly, fun and all around, just plain good!

[mdee66]

DEE-Lightful.

More please!