All 16 minutes of In a Gada Da Vida. That’s why you forgot your coffee! You go Les
Did you play the long version of Light My Fire and use a Farfesa Combo Compact on both tunes?
No, I used a Hohner combo compact like the one Zep used to tour with and John P. Jones used on one of their tunes.
Incidentally, both In A Gadda Da Vida and Light My Fire were played on Vox Continental combo organs, not Farfisas.
The good news is that the Hohner could be set up to sound every bit as cheesy as a Vox or Farfisa, and I was that guy who did that!
The bad news is that the only interesting organ parts on those tunes were the intros.
Once you shot your wad on those, there wasn't much to them other than noodling. This, of course, did not deter me from much tasteless noodling/overplaying on the recordings!
I've already remixed one of the tunes as best I could, using a software algorithm that was able to separate out vocals, drums, bass and "other".
Sadly, "other" was organ AND guitar. The guitar was fine. However, for my noodling, I should have gotten the hook and been escorted off the stage. The fact that I wasn't can only be explained by what people were thinking in 1968.
In any case, the only way I could get rid of some of the more embarrassing organ riffs would have been to lose the electric guitar along with them, and everything would have then sounded wrong, wrong, and more wrong.
Oh well, it's an historical document, so I guess it should sound like it sounded. Which is to say, most un-good (at least the keyboard parts, though I freakin'
nailed those intros)!