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Lowrey organ genius
Lowrey organ genius







What Pope Julius II had to say about the difficult fellow he would eventually hire to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel was running through my mind during Hudson's rambling and eccentric first set at Toronto's Top o' the Senator the other night. And if you haven't, there could be an opening for you at HMV.Īnd if you've lost the counter-intuitive thread that runs through all this, let me remind you. "But everything's filed by the band's name." "Yes sir," she said, thinking that I looked a little young for senile dementia to be settling in quite so severely. I had the impression she had more piercings than years under her belt. Moondog Matinee," I told the young shop attendant. As I found out recently in a music store. Hudson played with John Hammond Jr., and Ronnie Hawkins and with Bob Dylan before becoming truly famous, not as an exceptionally talented sideman, but as a member of the Band.īut even being truly famous is not what it used to be. Up on Cripple Creek he played a clavinet through a wah-wah pedal and got a sound that most people assume is the twang-twang of a jaw-harp. He was also an endless musical innovator.

lowrey organ genius

He even picked up a saxophone on occasion, most notably on the Band's version of

lowrey organ genius

He played keyboards - a big, churchy Lowrey organ, mostly - but he was just as gifted on piano, accordion and synthesizer. However, Garth Hudson may not be quite so familiar to some readers.įor those of you who were not born into the generation that dare not speak its name more than once or twice a sentence, Hudson was a brilliant member of a brilliant band called the Band. Although when I look at the crowd of X-Men enthusiasts lining up in the lobby of the Paramount Theatre, I sometimes have my doubts. I'll assume the general public knows who Michelangelo is. I mean, if we've been able to connect Liberal MP Dennis Mills to the Rolling Stones without collapsing the universe, creating a black hole of infinite proportions, and ending time as we know it, we can manage getting from Michelangelo to Garth Hudson as easily as falling off a log. In fact, a distinct absence of the obvious is what we're known for. Here, should mention be made of a concept such as "excellent Canadian film," the refreshingly unpredictable rejoinder might be "lack of funds," or "one-week theatrical release." We don't expect things to be obvious in this part of the paper.

lowrey organ genius

Here, however, we dwell in the realm of the cultural community, and things are not nearly so humdrum. On other pages - let's take the business section as an example - if someone says "really, really hard work" it follows, as night the day, that someone else will say "money." Or, should the word "dedication" pop into view, you can safely bet that the word "success" will not be far behind. There are other parts of the newspaper where associations are a little more direct, and, if I may say, a little more dull. But I often think that's the charm of an arts section, don't you? This is a little counterintuitive, I know. 'He is terrible, as you can see, and one cannot deal with him." So said Pope Julius II of Michelangelo.









Lowrey organ genius