Posted by Dr. Flucke (08/31/2007 @ 11:48 am)
One of New England’s best kept music secrets is
Fats Hammond, a group featuring two Hammond B-3 organs bashing out some of the funkiest soul-jazz on the planet.
Before you go thinking for a second that Fats Hammond, in their
standing Tuesday night gig at the Dodge Street Grill in Salem, Mass.,
puts on some sort of high-faluttin’ academic jazz clinic, go listen to
their tracks uploaded to The Space: It’s pure soul grease, laden with
more fat than the pub’s fish & chips. Dirtier than the floor around
the beer stand behind home plate at Fenway Pahhhk.
Sometimes, we’ve been told, the drummer from the Trey Anastasio
(Phish) solo band knocks off early–he works behind the bar at Dodge
Street–and sits in with the band, and the jams go deep into Wednesday
morning.
Fats Hammond ringleader Ken Clark (back to camera) wheels in his 400lb B-3 every Tuesday and jams with another B-3 playa and the band.