Thank you everybody for the kind words!

that is the greatest dirty hammond sound I've ever heard

I can taste that organ tone in my mouth

When Jon Lord passed, some of his spirit went into Derek.

This is REALLY killer!!! You've taken Jon Lord's guitaristic approach with the Hammond organ to another level. Jon and Keith are proud of you, Derek!

Derek, you are the keyboard player that every band would like to have (or with any musician would like to work). Your chord progressions and keyboard tones are extremely creatives, strong and aggressives! A simple testimonial of a fan that really enjoys your work. Next solo album?

Takes me back to 84`on the Deep Purple "Perfect Strangers" tour. The opening on "Perfect Strangers" is iconic :-)

Just discovered U from the amazing Sons of Apollo CD. What insane organ sound U got there. Just ordered 2 of your solo albums. Keep on rocking

This is an awesome insight on how your organ tone! I keep trying to replicate your tone with different patches and keyboards! You rock Derek! Thanks for sharing some of your tricks of the trade!

Just thinking about sharing a stage with the late Jon Lord AND Keith Emerson on a tour...so cool. Loving these videos, & have been digging in a lot after the Sons Of Apollo teaser a few weeks back. Really stoked for the new album, & hope to see you guys on tour soon! \m/

Whoa! MASSIVE tone! And that playing! Two thumbs WAY up! Derek has a killer mix of technique and feel. Jon Lord approved for sure. Just added something to my bucket list right at the top. To jam with, write something and record with Derek Sherinian. Most likely won't ever happen, but dreams keep us going!

Sounds so freaking bad ass.

You rock, Derek. Love the Hammond tone, man.

I always loved Derek's Hammond tone in his solo albums. The kind that cuts through guitars when needs to but laid back when comping. The Sons of Anu from Black Utopia is maybe my favorite Derek Hammond moment.

I've always enjoyed your Hammond sounds. I like the fact that they can go toe to toe with guitars and sound just as gnarly. Very much in the spirit of Jon Lord for me.

Incredible Bad Ass sound! You are amazing!

Derek Sherinian and Ray Manzarek from "The Doors" are my top favourite Organ keyboards players!!!

Fil!

Amazing! 🙏

hello Derek, just wanted to say hello..... you probably won't remember me... we met in a brooklyn club in about 1994/95.. i was playing in a cover band & was using a strap=on wireless controller, you came up & played it.. i think you were friends with GTR tech Mark ? (ringo starr, etc). long time ago !!!

That tone........ I love it!

You are so insanely good at playing... But I got a question for you. If you give away an Hammond. Will that make you a Organ donor ;-)??

Killer tone!!!

Absolutely WICKED tone, Derek! I also modded my B3 to get closer to Jon Lord's sound, but wanted to keep the combination B3/122 enough intact for 'stock' sounds when needed. My solution was an additional tube circuit in the AO-28 preamp. Basically this was a switchable FX-loop: signal through one side of a 12AX7 to line-level out, then back in through the other side of the tube - for all kinds of funky weirdness (like wahwah pedals and such ;) ) Controls are, like yours, on top next to the v/c control, and I added a volume control and a bypass switch. Bypass means it's completely stock, and more volume means a 12AX7 that's pushed beyond belief: it's got a growl and punch that's lethal! Intro to DP's Perfect Strangers? No problemo whatsoever. And then some \,,/ I've kept the Leslie amp standard, just swapped that venerable and lovely sounding Jensen driver with an Atlas that can handle those immens harmonics better, while still sounding sweet enough when needed... We do what we need to do to keep our heroes remembered, and no simulation comes close to thát roar :) Keep rockin'!

You and Lachy Doley need to do a duet album. :-)

yeaaaaah!!!!! love it thanks!

damn! That Hammond has got some serious balls! Thanks for sharing this with us. Dream Theater's "The Mirror" live intro "A Crack in the Mirror" would sound so killer with this setup.

Always loved your playing and absolutely can't wait for the next BCC album!

🔥🔥🔥Absolutely!🔥🔥🔥

Dang it, man! That's a monster.

I really do appreciate the effort and video. I've been there as well (regarding the search for the best Hammond rock sound) and came to the following conclusion: If you fool around too much with the original system you will end up with a worse sound. The original is loud enough for miking. In a loud live environment there's so much you lose in terms of detail that it really doesn't make any sense to increase the power. The only improvement being worth the effort is to use a different treble driver such as an Atlas PD60A. It has to be a driver which is not overpowering the upper range of the keyboard like the Hammond OEM 100 Watt speaker of the new tube amp driven Leslies speakers by Hammond Suzuki. The treble driver is the heart and core of the tone. There's nothing wrong with the original tube amp of those 122/147/251 Leslies of the 1960ies. You can easily push their front end and find the sweet-spot of the overdrive level where the Leslie still sounds good and there's more than enough overdrive available (it goes way beyond the amound of overdrive in this video). So, what's the real problem here? The answer is simple. The Leslie is not a direct sound source and somehow it doesn't cut through if a guitar plays along. There're frequencies in the mid and upper-mid range which give the guitar the edge which corresponds to that difference. But if you start to use guitar amps with the Leslie it will sound unpleasant or you will spend a lot of time with modifications. The solution I came up with is: Get another 122 amp, modify it the way you could use it like a head and run a 2x12" cab with Celestion G12H30 (heritage speakers). Push the amp, mic it up and also mic up the original Leslie. Use a line mixer with good eq and mix those signals the way that the Leslie will be at 100 % and the straight cab at 70-80 % of total volume. All of a sudden you will find the frequencies you missed at first without missing the Leslie effect. Be careful not to dial in the straight amp too much - otherwise you will end up dealing with phase problems and the Leslie effect will start to sound strange.

The Schaffer Replica is a clean boost which adds a destinctive colour (EQ) and compression to the tone. It's known to work well with low gain tube amps and was used on many guitar recordings in the 70ies and 80ies.

I think the Schaffer Replica must try to duplicate the massive compression those 1970s-era Schaffer-Vega wireless units imparted onto the guitar sound of people like Angus Young and Ace Frehley. Angus in particular got so addicted to it that he would record with it as well.

Just off my phone, I can already tell that that tone's pretty killer! Has such a percussive bite, and the potential to really cut through the mix at the same time! 👌 So glad I had been able to catch one of the dates of that tour (the one in Minnesota). Such a killer lineup of acts indeed!! 👍 Ritchie wasn't on guitar, but I don't think you'll find a better alternative than Steve Morse! R.I.P., Jon & Keith (Greg as well). 😔

Derek, how's the name of the song played at 2:00 until 2:20?

FUCK YEAH!

1:13 That's a classic distorted organ sound, associated with Deep Purple and Rainbow

Derek,why don't you form a band in the Boston-Purple-ELP vein???? :-)

.....only genuine, when you feel it in your belly ! :-)

que timbre mais foda.. sujão. pqp..

they Jon Lord, Hocus pocus, Don Aire were keyboard scientists the gods

Sounds like you are originally a guitar player...

An Eddie Van Halen Flanger-hmmmm.