flickr By doryfour
This one is from the Museum of Making Music according to the flickr set this came from. If anyone has more info on it feel free to comment.
Update: some additional info in via Suit & Tie Guy who checked on a Hamtech list. Here's what he got back from a couple of people: "That is Don Lewis' LEO (Live Electronic Orchestra). AFAIK, it still is at the NAMM Museum. Lewis gigged with it regularly in the day. Great organ player. Never heard him play it, but he probably played the snot out of it. Don't know if he recorded with it. Very little of it is X-66. Those are Concord drawbars and other parts, plus lots of stuff from ARP and Roland and more. This is a fairly well known instrument, so I'm disappointed to see that no one could do research."
And:
"It is still there, he had a little gig a couple of years ago to celebrate its 30th and Hammond's 70th (if I remember the occasion correctly). And he most certainly recorded! You can buy it on iTunes or from Don's web site.
http://lewisizerpresents.com/leo.html
Don and my grandma were two peas in a pod, they put on seminars here in Denver for teachers over the years. I was honored to have gotten a nice note from Don after she passed. He's a wonderful guy. And a heckuva engineer!"
He recorded an album with LEO for Catero Records in 1983, a venture of famed music producer Fred Catero:
ReplyDeletehttps://store.cdbaby.com/cd/lewisdon3
And remember - everything is coming from that one console. Incredible sound, way ahead of his time...and I dare say unique, I don't think there's anything quite like it anywhere else.