Original studio cut ws done on an L-100.

Use of a B-3 is a different sound, due to several key differences in tone generator and chorus circuits, among other things.

Just like Booker T's famous "Green Onions" -- in which the studio cut was played on an M-3 "schpinette" organ, with no leslie, they used the built in chorus vibrato and mic'd the little internal 12" speaker. Booker later toured famously using a fullsize B3 and at least one Leslie, though.

The Hammond Organ player and enthusiast must develop "golden ears" in order to be able to hear the subtle differences. But like the picture with the hidden elephant in it, once you know those differences, whether you find them yourself or they are pointed out to you, once you know them, they stand out clearly.

I think the key ingredient to a great organ part is *animation* - the constant *changing* of parameters as the tune progresses, change voicing, change chorusing, spinup, spindown, change something, throughout. This is where the average MIDI keyboardist falls flat. Simply selecting a static MIDi patch of one Hammond Organ sound does not cut it in the animation department that is so critical to the emotion of the tonewheel organ.


--Mac