Subj : Hammond B-3s
To : Bill Riley
From : Martin Ridgley
Date : Thu Oct 12 2000 12:09 pm
-=> Bill Riley wrote to Steve Kaplan <=-
BR> John now has a B-3 with a Leslie and there is no way I'm
BR> packing it around. I helped carry it in and that's enough
BR> for me. 500lbs consoles should be handled only by
BR> roadhogs, IMHO.
I know what you mean, Bill. Still, I've played in a number of
R&B bands over the years and a B-3, or similar model was always real
nice to have in the mix. One of the guys I worked with had an M-3
which was smaller and a lot easier to haul around.
In one of the more recent bands I played in, we had a guy who was
something of a Hammond fanatic. In the years I played with him he
never owned less than three of the things, and he currently has eight!
(Four B-3s, two C-3s, an M-100, and a 1947 BV, which I believe is an
early version of the B-3, without the percussion effect, ...and of
course, a garage full of Leslies.) He's continually buying,
refurbishing, and selling them.
Anyway, he knows how to move them. He's got two dollies which look
like they were made expressly for moving B-3s. One slides under each
side, they winch up, and then get strapped on to the organ. He's got
a ramp up into the back of his van and he can load a B-3 and get it
to the gig all on his own. He's even got ramps for rolling the thing
up onto a stage and the only time he really needs help is with a push
if the stage is more than a foot high. The only time we ever ran
into even a little bit of trouble was at a gig where the stage was
almost four feet high and his ramps didn't fit. We couldn't get the
organ through the back door to the stage, either. So, five of us
lifted the thing up onto the stage that night, but that was the only
time we had to do it.
Martin
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