Piano on "Oh Well Part II"

[aleuzzi]

And for that matter, who's playing the piano at the end of "Coming Your Way"? It sounds a lot like Chris's playing. I know she says she sang on TPO, but aural evidence suggests otherwise. She never said she didn't play piano on the record.

[macfan 57]

I just listened to my interview CD again & Mick did say that Jeremy wasn't on Then Play One, except for "one or two piano things". I believe any piano on the record is most likely Jeremy. Now the organ at the end of "Closing My Eyes"....I don't know, maybe Christine. I don't know if Jeremy ever played organ on any Fleetwood Mac record.

[chiliD]

Are we sure it is "organ" and not a guitar going through a Leslie speaker?

[sharksfan2000]

I think we need to get Martin Birch in for a Penguin Q&A session!

[chiliD]

Originally Posted by sharksfan2000

I think we need to get Martin Birch in for a Penguin Q&A session!

Is he still alive? I thought I read where he passed away a couple of years ago. If I'm mistaken, my apologies to Martin & the entire Birch family.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Is he still alive? I thought I read where he passed away a couple of years ago. If I'm mistaken, my apologies to Martin & the entire Birch family.

I'm pretty sure he passed away as well. He could have been an interesting guest.

-Lis

[BklynBlue]

Originally Posted by chiliD

Are we sure it is "organ" and not a guitar going through a Leslie speaker?

I have to admit, I had not considered that possibility. Seems more likely.
I was going to say that it is just a single note that is "sounded" rather than a piece that is "played".
Interesting to think that his contemporary Eric Clapton was in the Morgan and Olympic studios in London (the Blind Faith LP sessions) at the very same time recording a whole album using a similar set-up!

[sharksfan2000]

Originally Posted by ThePenguin

I'm pretty sure he passed away as well. He could have been an interesting guest.

-Lis

I didn't know about that. I did a Google search but came up with very little info on him other than his production and engineering credits.

[bretonbanquet]

I did a big search for Martin Birch and I couldn't find any evidence of his passing. He is a big big name in Iron Maiden circles, having produced many of their albums, and I found nothing about Martin having died on the huge Iron Maiden forum - if he had died I'm certain that they would have known - that place is quite Ledge-like in its members' knowledge.

Also Martin's Wikipedia entry is regularly edited, and just this month a paragraph was added to say that Martin retired in 1993. Hopefully he is still alive and in the best of health

[macfan 57]

Originally Posted by bretonbanquet

Also Martin's Wikipedia entry is regularly edited, and just this month a paragraph was added to say that Martin retired in 1993. Hopefully he is still alive and in the best of health

I did a Google search too & saw this. He would have been(and would be, if hopefully he's still alive), a great Q & A subject. For those who heard that he'd passed away, where did you hear this? Also, does anyone know how old he would be if he were still alive?

[macfan 57]

I think someone posted this picture of Martin Birch a year or two ago. I don't know when this is from, but he did facially resemble Danny Kirwan a bit.

[ThePenguin]

Originally Posted by macfan 57

I did a Google search too & saw this. He would have been(and would be, if hopefully he's still alive), a great Q & A subject. For those who heard that he'd passed away, where did you hear this? Also, does anyone know how old he would be if he were still alive?

I thought someone posted it here awhile back! maybe not. Hopefully he is still with us!

and yes he does resemble danny.

-Lis