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A cross-section showing the inner workings of a Leslie speaker cabinet "Tomorrow Never Knows" was the first song attempted during the sessions for Revolver, [40] which started at 8 pm on 6 April 1966, [41] in Studio 3 at EMI Studios (subsequently Abbey Road Studios). [14]
The speaker is named after its inventor, Donald Leslie, who began working in the late 1930s to get a speaker for a Hammond organ that better emulated a pipe or theatre organ, and discovered that baffles rotating along the axis of the speaker cone gave the best sound effect. Hammond was not interested in marketing or selling the speakers, so ...
Black Sabbath's Geezer Butler – who composed the song's lyrics – said the song is about floating through the universe with one's lover. [3] Black Sabbath lead vocalist Ozzy Osbourne uses a Leslie speaker to achieve the vocals' treble and vibration effects. [3] The piano parts on the track were played by album engineer Tom Allom. [3]
Matthew Kaminski is a Hammond Organ/Leslie Speaker Artist and is highlighted at the instrument maker's website as representing a passion for playing the organ. [26] He performs regularly on the Hammond Organ SK1, SK2 and uses Leslie 21 System speakers.
For his guitar solo, Page employed a backwards echo (where the echo is heard before the note), and also put his guitar through a Leslie speaker. [3] This was a technique Page had himself used as far back as his work with the Yardbirds, and faced serious opposition from audio engineers when he tried it on the earliest Led Zeppelin recordings.
Abbey Road incorporates styles such as rock, pop, blues, and progressive rock, [4] and makes prominent use of the Moog synthesiser and guitar played through a Leslie speaker unit. It is also notable for having a long medley of songs on side two that have subsequently been covered as one suite by other notable artists.
Each of the three songs was penned by a different member of the band. The songs "Badge" and "Doing That Scrapyard Thing" featured Eric Clapton using a Leslie speaker, [4] while all three recordings featured keyboard instruments played by either Jack Bruce or Felix Pappalardi. [1]
A Hammond B3 organ, beside a Leslie speaker cabinet. Both the Hammond organ and sound treatment via a Leslie speaker feature significantly on the Beatles' recording. The song's melody oscillates over the chords of C major and C diminished, [43] [44] a chord favoured by Harrison in his Indian music-inspired compositions for the Beatles. [45]