THE LESLIE: (VOLUME #2 Eclectic) Winwood,RYoung,JLPonty,Mandel

There's good music here notwithstanding the continuity problems inherent in any

compilation which has been pieced together from disparate sources. My burner

permits some volume balancing between tracks but there are other challenges

as well.


This morning I was able to confirm that on track #8: MELLOW; Jean Luc Ponty is in

fact amplifying his violin through a Leslie organ speaker.


It is well known that Rusty Young of the novel country rock band POCO put his

pedal steel guitar through a Leslie. The sounds he made were more like an organ

than a pedal steel. It sounds as is he's also using some type of WAH device,

possibly the "Thomas" crybaby pedal.


Mondo thanks to whoever recommended SUEDE: Dog Man Star in the VOL #1 comments.

I haven't been this enthused about an album I'd never heard since discovering

XTC: Skylarking. Both albums are very complex productions. Check them out.