1966 Vox Continental V301H
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ย. 2024
- This is a look into a 1966 Vox Continental, from its journey to junker, to rocker!
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This particular instrument pretty much defines the sound of that legendary rock band from Venice. Robby and John were also important, and Jims lyrics as well, no question. But, whenever you hear THIS particular organ sound, you instantly know it's the Doors.
And/Or Question Mark and the Mysterians...lol.. 96 Tears!
And The Animals...House of the Rising Sun!
And Iron Butterfly... In-a-Gadda-da-Vida!
@@brainscott8198 but 96 Tears was recorded with a Thomas organ, according to Franklin Rodriguez, The Mysterians' organist.
Yeah, instantly The Doors and Mr. Manzarek.
THE DOORS!!!!! MAN I FUCKING LOVE THESE GUYS, WHAT A LEGENDARY BAND
Thanks for restoring this gorgeous Vox organ to such beautiful condition.
It doesn’t matter that this wasn’t a perfect demonstration. This video was awesome and extremely enjoyable to watch.
Well narrated.
Informative.
A good length.
High definition.
Sounded great.
Loved it.
Your playing was well beyond anything I can put out. But it did made me realize how unforgiving this instrument actually is. And it definitely made me respect the sound and groove the late Ray Manzarek got out of this machine.
Probably the most iconic keyboard ever created
not even close lmao
@@blib3786 Then you tell me. What's more iconic? Besides the Hammond Organ.
@@zzzindan seconded. Rhodes all the way. Basically every modern keyboard has some form of Rhodes emulation bc it's the definitive keyboard-but-not-acoustic-piano sound out there
Also the Wurlitzer!
@@blib3786Jim Morrison would slap your face lol
Aww! That organ is a beauty! It made me sad to know that the organ was literally beating up by the UPS shipping guy and had to be repaired, but on the flip side it sounds absolutely gorgeous especially on the vibrato setting.
Very cool, all you need now is the keyboard bass that Ray Manzarek used, to go with it and you're sorted, would love to score one for myself.
Fender Rhodes Piano Bass
Ray Manzarek he was a genius!super underrated and for does who doesn’t know half of the time that Jim Morrison didn’t show up to sing Bcs he’s was to drunk high ray sing 🎤 and play the piano at the same time including the bass line
"one for yourself" - well, why not! Nord incorporated very convincing Vox emulator into their C2D organ. Beside, it has incredible Hammond , pipe and Farfisa. Believe me - it's like time machine... You press the button and magically you are taken back 50 years.
Or two hundred....!
@@bogdanfutera They have that stuff on the Electros too in case you can't afford the C2D.
@@Blueguitar007 Thanks. Yes, I know, but I'm happy to own C2D. They discontinued it in 2020.
i liked your avant-garde reimagining of the doors
it's ok, you can say its crap lol
The house of the rising sun is hard to play. It shows you how good Alan Price was!
@Sigge Värn kinda uncalled for you got something against the animals?
@@jameslarge434 for real
i can play it whole and became insanely talented. i've recently done I'm Mad Again too
Is! 🇬🇧
True
Very nicely done. I really appreciate all the work, you put into this timeless piece of history.
long live ray
I applauded your love, vision and ability to bring something back to what ( oh shoot, you just cued my jam, 96 tears yaaaaassss! 🎹💯). It once was…that’s a true musician right there…well done young man, well done. Keep our music alive and well. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Oh yes and the Dave Clark Five band used this keyboard in their songs. It was very popular in the 60s. Great demo you gave!
Wow, gotta say I’m really impressed with the quality of everything in this video, voice, angles, lightning, audio, this is what youtube was made for
Dude... i enjoyed so much this video. Thanks a lot
I had the pleasure of opening for the Animals way back in the day.....my band The Fugitives-they were amazing!
I love the animals song that you played
I'm fascinated by this but it would take me 7.5 billion years to get half as good as you.
96 Tears...love it!
Brilliantly done and executed…you got the the authentic vibe happening..sounds amazing well done…thankyou from Andy in Adelaide South Australia 🇦🇺
Light my fire!!! 96 Tears! House of…! -> Perfect songs for the demo.😎
I had to play those in the 60s on a Farfisa. Always wanted the Vox. (No tubes in the Farfisa)
Great intro. Love does great things
A fine organ!
Awesome sound. Hurrah for the 60's! Via the Vox Continental....
Nice Ed Sullivan impression!
thanks!
@@austin_hutto Wish I could get one!!
@@andriealinsangao613 takes a lot of searching and time.. and money
@@austin_hutto What's worse, I'm here in the Philippines!!
Yes , great impresion of Ed Sullivan Show
This video is great!!!
I liked the part of 96 tears of ? and the mysterians
Rodrigo Oliveira to many tear drops for one heart ❤️! To carry on
Jose Barragan S2
Sweet looking 1966 Vox Continental! That screans Oldies to the Max! Great Restoration on i despite how UOS shipped it to you! Enjoy that Gem and hope to see more videos on it! 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
COME ON BABY LIGHT MY FIRE
so much work to plug it into a kustom solid state. and yes, the doors, can never miss
jose de alva if I had a tube amp I would of used but I didn’t have one at the time , just got a fender got rid deluxe , but unfortunately after moving the Vox is having issues with a couple keys , hopefully I can get it sorted out and do and video of the Vox through the the fender
Awesome sound
They were a nice instrument
Keep practicing light my fire. You'll get it.
Great restoration work!
Great song selection.
Very cool Austin, nice video!
thanks, I really like your covers as well
Props, man! Great rehab job, great demo.
is that the same model that mr ingle (ingel?) - Iron Butterfly - used in Inna Gadda DaVida? cool vid & thanks
This is indeed what Doug Ingle played!
@@brandonlovelady8659 Awesome! I wish i could afford one, even it is what, 50+ years old!
@@j.lietka9406 You and I both! Just can't beat that iconic, reedy sound!
I believe he used the Italian Continental but its the same as other ones just different models. Only say this for a few reasons and that being that i once saw a video of them on American Bandstand and his Vox had the two cross braces over each other. Also I've seen some live photos of his Vix close up and see two holes where the wing nuts or bolts go. Hope this helps, I love that band and try to learn as much research as I can on them.
@@theironbutterflychannel9400 wow! Thanks for the update! There's a shorter video of them at the Playboy after hours. Not sure how close up the camera gets to Mr Ingles Vox. Thank you again! 🤓
Respect
Wonder how much beer got inside this thing. As a side note, a Thomas home organ was used to record 96 tears.😁😁
never knew this, thanks.....
Great video! Just remember to turn on the lights so we can see better
One of the sexiest keyboards ever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Super cool, great job
Very cool.
Alan Price-Organ 👍❤️
Se pul ve da, California. Very cool vid!!
Was this the kind of organ that Alan Price used in The House Of The Rising Sun? I ask that because it sure almost sounds like it. From a couple of angles during the video that I just watched, the keys on the beautiful organ look almost exactly like the ones from the 1964 video of House of the Rising Sun.
yes alan price used a vox continental v301j UK model
It certainly was!
awesome! thx for sharing
Estimado muy buenas música norteña mexicana de bronco sus inicios esos efectos???
Awesome job on the organ dude! She's a beaute! Also, fuck the criticism of egomaniacs. It may not be the best LMF around but as long as you're having fun that's all that fucking matters. You're nonchalant attitude and class got my respect dude. I got your back home boy. Austin Hutto FTW!
🎼🎶 let my fire
É isso aí, quem sabe sabe, parabéns!
I have a V301H in near mint condition, I bought it in 2011 and seller did an excellent job on the packaging, only thing that really bothers me is I've had 3 key contacts break since I've owned it, this Connie looks like it's never been gigged or played hard but broken key contacts are a repair that should not be performed by mere mortals.nice video, I love 60s combo organs.
luckily there were no broken contacts, but a couple tonecards and the preamp were screwed up, it also doesn't help that the preamp was directly behind the drawbars where the moving drawbars could come in contact with the wiring. One of the weirdest designs ive ever seen, luckily they changed it in later models.
@@austin_hutto mine was built in June of 66 also, supposedly only made for 4 months by Thomas Organ, I'm wondering how many they actually did produce.
@@panthercombo9647 im not sure, I would guess about 1200. I'm curious to see the condition of yours.
@@austin_hutto can you post pictures in the comments?
i don't think so
I had a Ludwig supraphonic snare drum. It had a ink stamped date or October 24th 1964. It got stolen. I've never recovered
Was the date of manufacture stamped on the side of the lowest C# key?
i want one 🗿😭
well say goodbye to your wallet because they're hard to come by cheap anymore
I'm stumped. What song are you playing after 96 Tears??
Is this the one Strawberry Alarm Clock used ???????????????
fucking sweet bro. hopefully getting my own v301j soon!
awesome dude, i waited a while till i found this one, the best ones are uk 301j's or the american 301H's , the italian 301E's are too problematic and the keys break a lot and the wiring and stuff is completely different.
Never understood why the colours inversed! Hammond used inversed colours for non-notes keys, used for settings, and that made sense...
4:47 light my fire
8:20 when the music over
Sepulveda California is pronounced Seh-pull-veh-duh.
Yeah I feel like a idiot for mispronouncing that
Way to nitpick. It’s an awesome video! 😂
song in 7:10??
The UPS guy? Was it packaged properly? I've had no problems with UPS, it's been the shippers that wouldn't package the organs properly,I've only had 1 combo organ arrive damaged, An Elka Panther the seller sent by itself with no packaging, no damage to the outside but everything came loose inside, took me a couple months to get it back 100%, I like to see the organs double boxed with thick styrofoam blocks on all corners, packed tight so not able to move inside.
Richard Demartino my friend bought the organ for me in California , he paid ups to package it and ship it , it was packaged with bubble wrap and packing peanuts, so any damage was their responsibility , also it was shipped ups ground so it’s my assumption that in transit it was thrown around because when I got it , their were stabs in the box where a corner edges dented marks in the box
@@austin_hutto Yes then if they packed it they didn't do it right, best to buy the packaging and do it yourself, I thought you meant the delivery driver beat it up,
@@panthercombo9647 I'm not certain on who damaged it because it mades its way from California to Denver, but some handlers didn't handle it with care because it was pretty beat up.
@@austin_hutto I just lowered the key contact cage on mine to reduce flexing on the contracts, the V301H has adjusting nuts so you can do this, I like the feel of the keys better also, not as stiff feeling.
@@austin_hutto by the way you play fine, dont pay attention to that arrogant jerk,
Brought here from Circles (Esher Demo) by the Beatles
1:11 amogus 😳
When the impostor is sus! 😳😳
What’s the name of the riff between 07:35 - 08:05? Was that a Animals song??
96 tears
@@austin_hutto Thank you so much. This is such a cool song.
let's start a band!
Ray Manzarek???...is that u???
Just got mine. I got to replace the vibrato on/off switch and the D, D# not working on all the draws... other than that she's good....Btw do you how much these are worth?
rajincajin95 cool, yeah a couple keys didn’t work when I got it, but in fair or excellent condition these things can range between 1,000 to 5,000 dollars
Can you play I’m down?
Wish I could get one, but they are all over 1000 dollars everywhere I look so no luck :(
Too bad you didn't show some other drawbar combinations where you can get that classic Animals of Paul Revere and the Raiders sound. Just push in those middle 2 drawbars about half way.
i'm thinking of doing a followup video with different drawbar combos, I've been playing a lot more, and I also got a fender deluxe to play through to get some better tube tones.
exellenty
How about "In A Gadda Da Vida"?
"CuT nEeDlE"
Big Big Big Huge BraVooooooooo N LIKE
do you see less the touches because theyre noires ?
so much more cool than a rhodes. err why not get both! (cause I'm not rich! and need more space! crieke!)
1:11 SUSSY
if you barely press a vox key you can hear 1 drawbar sound at a time then they all merge together
Probably the key contacts
@@austin_hutto i love doing that with my vox continental. I also love sniffing the wood and licking the red top
Birthday
Scuse me sir, but vibrato its pronunced " veebrato "
EXcuse me But depending on what your talking about.
On Amplifiers LEO FENDER INVENTED VIBRATO.ON GUITARS PAUL BIGSBY INVENTED VIBRATO!. Not sure where your from with that name but Britain&America were ressponsible for most modern day music and inventions especially
"Vibreeto"...🎶🎸🎶😁
Just bought an English one for 500 bucks and it's in better shape than this. This would make one hell of a player/on the road instrument. Of course you can always get an Italian one to beat on because no one cares about those. Just kidding though very nice keyboard and demo.
Lowrey your lucky to have scored one for that much , I spent well over 2500 just to get the thing working and parts e.tc
@@austin_hutto well the thing is it does need some cosmetic work and needs overhauled internally. Which is going to cost me around another 700 on top of the 500.
ya, the US wooden key version ...looks abit ragged 10 years ago i bought EVERY UK wooden key version that was sold at auction, you won't see many being sold now why? because Wesser was in a selfish mood and bought them ALL , I have an amazing collection of perfect U.K (Best) Continentals so your video did not impress me takes alot to impress me
WESSERPARAQUAT I put a lot of effort into the video, but I guess I must bow down to the Vox king wesserparaquat
@@austin_hutto behold the vox king! don't tell anyone but i'm working now on perfecting the recorded version of THE END that will be my next video and it will become my most popular one i'm sure of that, the organ riffs are all incredible off the scale and there is over 10mins of it
WESSERPARAQUAT great song, I love how ray used the volume pedal to emphasize the volume on the cymbal crashes and stuff and how the organ drones in and out
@@austin_hutto ya, i need to perfect those parts as normally i've never used the pedal initially i'm actually going through the song using my old yamaha psr 500! easier i don't need an amp that way when i'm comfortable with the whole song i will then go with the rhodes and vox i've only started playing in the last week first time in 4 years was busy with other things but i have always known i was destined to play the end it's iconic and such an amazing expression of a song i want to be part of its magic forever
@@austin_hutto Ray is probably turning/fuming in the Ether at the thought of me being let loose on The End :) i'll power it home and show the planet who's the boss!
Brilliantly done and executed…you got the the authentic vibe happening..sounds amazing well done…thankyou from Andy in Adelaide South Australia 🇦🇺
Love this video i was exactly expecting you to play a doors song
It asks to play "Light My Fire" - a definitely Vox Continental song
Can i have it? Lol
Rainbow Bridge not in a million years
Austin Hutto It was worth the try you know
They used this on allot of Monkees songs I'm a believer most noticable with the intro vox organ lick
You're right; I remember it most from their "(I'm Not Your) Stepping Stone" with a very simple, and short, organ solo - four notes, then repeated, first without then with vibrato.
@@ericwyness9089 two for sure and on a little bit me a little bit you
What was the song played after Light My Fire?
96 tears by ? And the mysterians
Luka Pronounced: 'Question Mark and The Mysterians.'
I've had a V-301H since 1989. Ever once in a while, a transistor in one of the divider pairs would fail, so I would replace that pair. But it's been stable now for several years.
I've had a load of key return springs made for my Vox 301J UK model. If you fancy sprucing up your keyboard - I have them available.
the sound of my youth....bravo!
dude the volumen on this video is too low
Adoro Doors Animals muito bom mesmo sem palavras um abraço do Brasil
You butchered the light my fire intro but your restoration was good.
Goodvideo! and Good Light My Fire too.
Augie Meyers of the
Sir Douglas Quintent.
I'm sorry but that was the funniest Light My Fire ever!
tried my best to do it in one take
@@austin_hutto It's simply delicious.. I especially appreciate the multiple camera angles! thank you
You should play it then!.