Night train (Jimmy Forrest) - Hammond organ blues!

Version 2 of the famous boogie woogie tune made famous by Duke Ellington then later James Brown. My interpretation on Hammond organ. Enjoy!

[@timford3599]

The Hamond B3! One of music's most beautiful sounds with that warm tone. I've been a fan since I was about 3 years old. I didn't even know what an organ was but I've always been attracted to this sound!

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks and agree!

[@garys8990]

Great playing!! you were so solid I could accompany you on my 1929 Buescher Tenor Sax.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks brother I really appreciate it!

[@webnerrisi6199]

1974 and I as underage was in a night club and the band played that tune but I never could figure out its title. Today June 02/2024 I found its title.

[@markielinhart]

THE HAMMOND B3 RULES‼️👏🌟👏🌟👏🌟✌️

[@phillipoos]

Terrific playing !

[@NH1969GOAT]

Thank you for that beautiful sound!!!!!!

[@ThePurpelephant]

Next time, my wife tells me I have too many keyboards I'm gonna show her this video.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

That’s only 4 boards out of 22..! Thanks for listening my friend

[@harleycharley8323]

Beautiful!

[@jeffconley819]

I only have one b3 and my thinks it’s to big and in the way in our living room 😢

[@user-mj5is1jo8l]

😂

[@rogermarcoux8029]

Just found this after listening to Booker T playing with Daryl Hall. Yes that is awesome. My favorite instrument is a Hammond , this was lovely.

[@willymac2306]

ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC ...WOW 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thank you very much!

[@tobycarr9171]

I love B3 Hamond Shuffles

[@russellfroggatt]

We gonna take a little break but we'll be be back in a while so er, don't nobody go nowhere...

[@alanrevelo5571]

Great job, Jimmy!

[@adriancalin8688]

❤hamond organ impresoinant

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks for stopping by!

[@harleycharley8323]

Beautiful!

[@amplisomportela5856]

Very good

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks

[@kennyhagan5781]

There's no sound quite like a Hammond.I have been around all sorts of musicians and every keyboard guy that I've ever met gets downright rhapsodic about the way a Hammond sounds in conversation. I like it because it's great for vamping and a long slow groove.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Yes!! There’s nothing on this earth that sounds like or feels the same as a real Hammond! I have an original A100 and Leslie and 3 other Hammond Suzuki digital organs that are fantastic.

[@dans.4222]

Oh, Back to the Future. :D

[@tonymorgan328]

Very cool!

[@donf3877]

Now that baby is set RIGHT. No way I knew it was a digital... until the left side keyboard shot!!! They did Hammond proud.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks much Don! I’ve worked very hard at making it less digital and as authentic as possible. The 2 12AX7 tubes really help!

[@donf3877]

@@KyleWhitlock-Music Yep!!! Tubes make a amazing difference. I ran concert sound for years (decades). Nobody could figure out why the vocals sounded so warm and rich with me running the board. I had (still have at the home studio) an old 1950's tube compressor on the vocal subgroup. Was re-painted [why?] with no lettering [why?], but by the design of it I'm pretty sure it's Orban. Didn't use it for much compression... just had it in-line on the insert chain to warm everything up with the tubes. Have an Orban 526A [the best one] Dynamic Sibilance Controller (de-esser) first, then the compressor. When I was running sound, these were in a separate rack and hidden from view. Don't (didn't) want to give the secrets away!!! I also have an Orban 245F [the best one] Stereo Synthesizer on the direct out for the guitar channel, then back in on the aux returns. All of these are the old blue face units, and of course all are analog. Orban is ultra high end television and radio studio equipment. Most people don't like their equipment because it's usually hard-wire instead of plug-in (meant to spend years in a rack). Their Optimod is something else for FM stations. There was a country station in Toledo Ohio and another in Detroit Michigan that had the same national program on at night. The difference between the two stations was like stereo and mono. Huge difference!!! You can still get Orban equipment on Ebay and other used markets... they are many times the price of new equipment, but worth it! BTW... I sent this video to a friend that plays keyboards. My memo was... this is why you suck on keyboards. You don't have enough of them!!! Subbed and will be checking out all of your videos.......

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

@@donf3877 yes and if you are a collector (me) you can never ever have enough keys. I’ve loved following the technology that each of my keyboards has since the mid 70’s. Never fail to be amazed.

[@donf3877]

@@KyleWhitlock-Music There are just SO MANY different keyboard manufacturers that had great products... but went belly up. Some, like Farfisa... for a reason. Oops... hope you don't like them, to me they sounded dreadful. Like they were trying to imitate everyone else at the exact same time. But, it could have been the guy setting it up and playing it, too. I'm still trying to figure out what organ Steve Winwood was playing back in the early days on a video off KZbin, "Spencer Davis Group Finnish TV 1967 Live". I don't think it was a Hammond, because it had big flip up down levers like a Lowrey or pipe organ. But yet, it seemed to have sliders on the far left side. But the switch over was hard and instant with a flip of a lever, instead of like pulling the drawbars out on a Hammond. Also, don't think it was running through a Leslie. More like a built-in tremolo, as it was also instant instead of winding up and down. Probably running through a guitar amp because it was pretty distorted. BUT YET... it had the Hammond growl. Have your heard of, or seen any of, Lachy Doley's videos??? He's out of Australia. He totally abuses his B3......... but, he also has a Hohnor Clavinet that has been modified with this big four foot or longer WHAMMY BAR that sticks out of the top of it. More like what would be on a guitar. And, he uses it that way. He plays a version of Voodoo Child on it that's absolutely mind blowing. (you could probably do the same thing with the pitch control on a synth... it just looks more impressive with him banging on that bar :) It's great to chat with someone that loves the tech, and is just as knowledgeable, as he is with his playing. Instead of like Odd Ball in Kelly's Heroes, "Hey man...I only ride 'em... I don't know what make 'em work"!!!

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

@@donf3877 love Lachy’s stuff!! Very envious😊 HELL of a player. I remember seeing George Duke play the whammy bar trick on the clavinet years ago. That is definitely the closest a keyboard instrument will ever come to sounding like a real electric guitar. Going now to search for that Spencer Davis video you mentioned

[@UKMikey]

Yeah! Living the dream right there, Kyle.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks brother really appreciate it!

[@isadorewilson7710]

Super

[@wjdavey3]

Yay!!!! 👍🎶🎹😎 Great Performance Kyle!!!! You got a Deep Soul!!!! ❤️🎵🎶

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks for listening Wes, appreciate it!

[@stevenvasquez7726]

Yeahhhh!!!! Sounds good, well done.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks for listening Steven!!

[@paolocattaneo1614]

Very good sound

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks for listening 🙏

[@avalanche9026]

It’s the player.

[@1writer2]

That is awesome! Even Booker T. would be impressed!

[@timford3599]

No Doubt!

[@Judesmood118]

Hey McFly! I thought I told you never to come in here!

[@RobPoyton]

Nice playing and love your set up!

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks for watching Rob!! Cheers

[@majorseventh2699]

Great playing, sounds fine, that sound is emulated, is easily recognizable and not a tone generator, not a B3 or a Leslie.

[@stefanhagstrom4195]

Hi Kyle. Just found this masterpiece. Awsome performance. I played the hammond a couple of years in my early teens before sports took all my time. Have had thoughts on picking up playing again for some years and now at 54 this video made me deside to really begin again. Thanks for the inspiration and an awesome video. There is no better sound than a hammond.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

😊And thanks so much Stefan!! Glad you liked my stuff. Good luck on returning to playing the Hammond organ! If I might ask which part of the world are you from?

[@stefanhagstrom4195]

@@KyleWhitlock-Music I live in Sweden. I listen to soulmusic, Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, James Ingram, Peabo Bryson, Ray Charles, Anita Baker amongst others, also slow blues that has alot of hammond organ in the songs. And finally i listen to smooth jazz, Brian Culbertson, Gregg Karukas and so on.

[@user-ys1fp2jh7m]

Wow!..))

[@hevyhands]

I would love to set up my drum kit up and jam with that kat he was on fire dig it.

[@jazzplayer59]

Nice👍

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@majorseventh2699]

Sweet...how fun.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Hey thanks for listening -much obliged!

[@valeroski5413]

Gran músico

[@charleslaughton8092]

One-More-Time! (hit replay ... repeat!)

[@timford3599]

I already did just that. Once is just not enough.

[@BlueBustard]

Reminiscent of the old burlesque pit combos. Great Stuff!

[@MrPorsche85]

Yea, Night Train was a standard back then. Not that I frequented any of those bars err musical establishments.

[@victorvargas49]

Que bonito 👍

[@suitandtieguy]

I can speak from personal experience the Sub37 is a great third manual for a Hammond.

[@maxfidanza6252]

Cela sonne BLUES! Vive KYLE dans son TRAIN

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks so much!

[@avalanche9026]

It’s hard to believe. Why discontinue în making the B3. ?? One of best organ ever.

[@terelldavis]

Nice! Nice rig

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thanks for listening Terrell!!

[@MERLIMARTISTICPRODUTIONS]

what leslie do you use? ventilator digital? real leslie?

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Neo systems Ventilator 2. Love it! I also use a Lounsberry Tall & Fat pedal thru the effects section on the Hammond.

[@TheOrganiston9th]

You sound fantastic! A couple of questions... I can’t tell - are you playing an XK5 or XK3C (whichever one, it sounds great)... and which chorus are you using? It sounds a little gentler than C3, and damn good. And finally - are you using an external Leslie or one of the onboard “cabinets”? My preferred XK5 Leslie sim is (as of the moment, anyway) the “145/Gentle”. I think this is the first time I’ve heard this song played on an organ - again, great job!

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

Thank you buddy!! I’m playing an XK3c through a Neo Ventilator 2 Leslie emulator pedal. I believe I used the C3 setting. I’m using Jim Alfredson’s tone wheel set with a slight modification of my own to the Chorus settings. After I recorded this video I added a Lounsberry Tall Fat & Wide pedal for extra preamp oomph

[@TheOrganiston9th]

@@KyleWhitlock-Music I have an original Vent; it’s presently connected to my previous clone, a Nord C1. I mean to put the XK5 through it soon. What it did for the Nord was amazing; my guess (HOPE) is that it does even more for the XK5...!

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

@@TheOrganiston9th that’s exciting and the in the XK5 demos I’ve listened to the onboard Leslie simulator sounded incredibly good

[@domenicosgambati9914]

7

[@jselectronics8215]

An old stripper song. Well done.

[@KyleWhitlock-Music]

All the more reason for me to like this tune!