Happy BD from me too!

yeah, ...as soon as i heard the album version of southern nights by a.t. i was hearing john lennon?...george harrison?...something!...and eventually was able to nab in my mind blue jay way and somewhere in all that was able to look and find out the name of the thing...er, leslie box...er, speaker :)

here is................william shatner singing a song called common people

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ainyK6fXku0

i heard a band play it at a party the other night and a guy was telling me about william shatner's version and so there you have it!

Thanks for the Happys on my birthday.

My mom and sister came over yesterday, brought an ice cream cake and cards. It was nice.

agnes, I had forgotten about Blue Jay Way. That may have been flanging or a leslie - I've forgotten. Have to look at the Beatles Sessions book and see.

Talk about jumping through hoops...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfVwxinvRZA

cool! thanks goofus! once at a faerie festival, there was a girl faerie who...actually, she didn't have on her faerie wings...maybe she was just thinking happy thoughts :) ...but anyway!!! she was doing some sort of free form moves to whatever the band was playing...not quite so many rings as that...she had two rings i think, and was a lot of fun to see! playful and full of surprises and like no one was watching! i wish you could have seen it!

ice cream cake! it is funny (or perhaps strange?)...i don't really like all that many desserts, but one of my favorites i have ever had is tiramisu!...very light and very chocolatey with just a hint of coffee flavour somewhere...

also sometimes fruit pies!

i don't know why i said all that...!

glad you enjoyed your birthday!

feel like posting this favourite...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07oufBC_JjQ

...it is hard not to bust out crying...it is my understanding that it is leon russell playing piano on that one, along with of course the flying burrito brothers with gram. really great version of a great song, in my opinion the best!

Weird Al's ode to Bob:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsgeTNnYywg

FYI agnes, checked out the sessions book. It was flanging on Blue Jay Way, not a leslie cabinet after all. The first mention I could find of George using one was for Ringo's tune Octopus' Garden. It seems like they used one before that, but it doesn't come to mind.

Enjoy the weekend everyone.

hi ron! yeah,,,right now i cannot remember the exact train of thought i used in looking for what the thing that was used in southern nights (before i started i had never even heard of a leslie and now i have)...but anyway, once i retrieved blue jay way in my mind as having some similar sound i figure i had a well known cross reference song recording to work with and probably along with the name of the song used words like voice effects and whatever else i thought would help and came up with leslie speaker in a few places....

http://headfullofsnow.com/black-sabbath-planet-caravan/
mentioned here (for example) somewhat toward the bottom of the article

and here
http://www.listology.com/jazz99/story/h ... -1967-1969
scroll down just a little ways and you will see "blue jay way" etc...

but then you express doubt between the leslie and flanging thing and so looking up blue jay way straight up i find this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Jay_Way
which mentions flanging used in the song but no mention of leslie unless in my haste i missed it

but looking up the leslie found this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_speaker
which under the vocals section mentions blue jay way...so i am like, whatever!!!!!!!

but anyway, the leslie having been referenced i was able to search and find this (for one) on southern nights
http://www.offbeat.com/2004/05/01/maste ... toussaint/
(about four paragraphs up from the bottom of the article)

so perhaps,,,maybe having found out (perhaps incorrectly) what was used in the one song was able to find out what was used in the other! i guess, i suppose, i don't know!

man that was one tedious post (sorry about that)! i just wanted to let you know how i wound up where i did! at least the search was not as tedious as this post might have you believe? *whew*

oh yeah!
zap, interesting attention to detail in that clip! :)

THat Weird Al vid was a real hoot. LOL> It just hit me that I saw him live in concert once. He was the opening act for the Monkees. I had forgotten about that until I saw the vid and it hit me, the memory...

Mike used to live in the house in KY in this Patty Loveless video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8ufiK8USxA

It was in a coal mining camp and Mikes late dad was a coal miner there...

this is the first i have heard of this thing
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcy-gDCAYO4

it looks like a good time was had by all!

Yum, ice cream. It'd be good in this heat...

so now you are telling me there are mermaid parades?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcSTFRNqx74

lou reed and laurie anderson are in there somewhere...albeit very briefly!

(they are king neptune and queen mermaid!)

Thank you for your thorough look into the whole leslie thing - thought process that is. One thing leads to another. (I oughtta write a song about that.) ("I think someone already has," smiles agnes knowingly.)

Boy howdy and pass the 30 weight! Nice weekend to all!