-Dan Dillon is a 53 year old music geek of sorts. His fist Hammond purchase was in 1976 - an old model BV with Hammond tone cabinet (with oil filled reverb) and Maas-Rowe Carillon unit for $800. He immediately dumped the old tone cabinet and found an old used Leslie (not sure which model) and took the rig on the road in a rock & roll band. That organ was very heavy, but with 4 strong (young) backs it wasn't a problem to move.
+Dan Dillon is a 53 year old music geek of sorts. His fist Hammond purchase was in 1976 - an old model BV with Hammond tone cabinet (with oil filled reverb) and Maas-Rowe Carillon unit for $800. He immediately (and foolishly)
dumped the old tone cabinet and found an old used Leslie (not sure which model) and took the rig on the road in a rock & roll band. That organ was very heavy, but with 4 strong (young) backs it wasn't a problem to move.
By the early '80's he had a "real B3" and an "M3" with a Leslie model 122. He opted to carry the B3 around on gigs, leaving the M3 at home. Being unable to be heard on stage over the guitar players, he modified his B3 after reading a "Contemporary Keyboard" magezine article which gave details about how Keith Emerson had modified his C3 preamp for more drive and modified percussion circuit.
He also built a new Leslie. It was based on the 122 design except that he sized and ported the woofer compartment to accomodate an Electro Voice EVM15L speaker, and replaced the stock Jensen horn driver with a honking big ole JBL driver and a hand built crossover with hand wound coils. The amp was a Crown DC 300A . It had a lot of "drive" and was a kick ass stage setup. It sounded clean when necessary, but could tear one's hair out by the roots when ridden hard.
