The Vox Continental Combo Organ (Overview & Demo) 

300-400 back in the 60's 1962-63-64--when 'the house of the rising sun "came out-- everyone wanted one-Vox organ

the Jaquar was about 300 bucks new

You can get one a lot cheaper than $8,000!

@@husq48 $995 in 1965 is 8200$ today [adjusted for inflation]. I doesnt matter how much they sell for these days.

Compared to a Hammond that is damn cheap.

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Kenneth Downing is actually an older man now at 72, but he definitely wasn't an accountant!@@dinorocker8647

Blondie keyboard player used a farfisa

@@crazypainter56 I stand corrected. Thanks.

Think it's a Vox Connie Steve Nieve used on Radio Radio, though I might be wrong!

@@andriealinsangao613 definitely looks like Steve Nieve is playing one on the famous SNL clip, Z shaped legs, red tolex and all.

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yeh, Ray Manzarak had at it, but 'House of the Rising Sun' is what drew me in first.

Ray Manzarek was such an underrated pianist/keyboardist and he was like The Doors secret weapon with those songs with the iconic Vox organ from the first time I heard Light My Fire I was sold on them! R.I.P. Ray Manzarek he was the glue that kept the band together

@@DblakeDeathMetal89 he actually played a Gibson on most of his songs, I think he had a vox however on the crystal ship.

@@ginahodgkins1103 actually he used a vox for the first 2 albums, he switched to the gibson around waiting for the sun

Trivia: There's a long history with that. In the 1970s I worked in the computer industry and one of my co-workers said that once, I have no idea where he got it. Could have been original. Then later in the 90s I started ending some of my articles in the Transoniq Hacker magazine with that phrase, Sam Mims was a more prestigious author there. Now Syntaur occasionally ends their videos with it. Who else will be using it in the future? (from another Continental owner)

YES a G101 on Ed Sullivan show

No you wouldn't. The Vox Continental Baroque with Knee Pedal rules the past 2 centuries.

@@user-jl9kw9gn3m 🫡 But yeah, I would and I did. I played a Farfisa for 20+ years. Still kicking myself for selling it in the 80s.

believe that was a farfisa

@@jamoore84 ooohhhhh... KNOCKOUT :D

Or I'm A Believer by the Monkees!

Howdy! The original studio recording of light my fire actually was a vox continental. The tape on the recording was slightly slowed down so it’s a lower pitch. Ray used the Continental on the first 2 records and by mid 1968 he switched to Gibson G101 Kalamazoo Combo organ which he used primarily live the next few years because he kept breaking Vox Keys. The Gibson G101 is what he is playing on the Ed Sullivan show. Later down the line he starting using a wider variety of organs and electric pianos.

Double shot--------- was a Farfisa

No. Ray was not playing Wurlitzer organ He was playing a Gibson G101 organ. Look it up. He never used a Wurlitzer organ live or in studio. It was Bix and Gibson which is also know as the Kalamazoo organ.

@@crazypainter56 It was Gibson G101 which looks like a Farfisa.

@@chriss3838 I knew this years ago-I used to own one---kept going out of tune --was close to a furnace-- which made the tuners go bad-I still own combo organs

I believe the organ on Time Of The Season was a Hammond, due to the percussion that was used.

@@michaelvernacchio5678 YES it was

Nah the vst is trash, real thing is much better

@@SM-ht7qf Whenever someone sugests an VST of anything, the automatic response on RU-vid is "No thst's trash, the real thng is better." Half of the time, the poster hasn't even played the real thing, but it doesnt matter--VST=bad, Old shit=good. I'd say play them both and decide for yourself, but you'll have a hard time even finding an old Vox to compare. The fact is that these were considered cheap and not great-quality instruments in the day, for stage musicians who coudn't afford a Hammond. By modern standards, the circuits are beyond simple. So emulating one isn't rocket science. But if you're a purist and you can find one, than it's your money.

@@geoffk777 I literally have one in my bedroom along with a fender rhodes piano bass, the vst was so horrible i had to buy the real thing

@@geoffk777 You yourself probably dont even own a vox lmao

@@SM-ht7qf Like I said, if you're a purist and it's your money, than great. I once had a dialog with a Mellotron purist. Not only could he tell M-Tron from the tapes that it samples, he could even tell Mellotron models apart in recordings. That's interesting, but 99 percent of players will find M-Tron identical and be better off with it. The same is true of Rhodes, B-3's and many other vintage instruments. Of course, a Doors fanatic like yourself isn't going to want the VST, but most people would never notice the difference and be better off with it. And no, of course I don't own one. But I've heard enough recordings to know what they sound like.

no shit troglodyte thats not the point, its purpose was to serve as a portable organ for bands at the time

Augie was great

A Behringer Ultra-vibrato pedal will fix that!

@@morganfisherart Vibrato generally isn’t adequate for organs. I guess it was meant to replace a Leslie, but it doesn’t. Only exception: the V1 on Hammond/clonewheel organs.