Favorite use of Hohner Clavinet on a *non-funk* recording?

[Bob_Ross]

Please note, I don't mean to disparage funk; I love funk.

But A) it's like shooting fish in a barrel if you open up this question to the genre that Clavs were seemingly made for; and B) I'm really fascinated by the outliers, genres where you wouldn't expect the instrument wielded so expertly by Stevie Wonder, Bernie Worell, George Duke et al would actually work.

So I'm curious, what are your favorite recordings featuring the Hohner Clavinet that are not from the funk/soul/R&B end of the spectrum?

Here's a few that stand out for me:

Gentle Giant - "I Lost My Head"


Refugee - "Ritt Mickley"


Frank Zappa - "City Of Tiny Lights"

 

[JimK]

Wow...this will take some pondering.

 

[garp]

Gotta go with "Up On Cripple Creek" by The Band (1969) with Garth Hudson on clav. Honorable mention to "Have A Cigar" by Pink Floyd (1975) with Richard Wright on clav.

 

[Bob_Ross]

I thought of some other tunes that were influential in my early appreciation of the Clavinet:

Billy Preston was rockin' the D6 on a couple tracks off The Rolling Stones' Goats Head Soup album

"100 years Ago"


and of course "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)"


And John Paul Jones' Clav work on Led Zeppelin's "Trampled Under Foot" is pretty iconic while still being an outlier

 

[viribus]

It’s pretty hard to top this for (bizarre) clavinet. Or is it a clavioline?



Pretty sure this is a clavinet:

 

[Haroldo]

Anything with NRBQ's Terry Adams on the clavinet. Fer instance......

 

[Bob_Ross]

Or is it a clavioline?

I think so...but definitely not a Clavinet!

Pretty sure this is a clavinet

Yes, definitely! (Clavinet is on the left channel; the keyboard instrument on the right channel is a Wurtlitzer 200A electric piano)


Here's another Gentle Giant track featuring Kerry Minnear's Clavinet. My friends and I used to dance to this tune in high school circa 1978...so maybe it is funk?

 

[viribus]

As I get older I’m more fascinated by the use of these crazy-weird old instruments to make “modern” music.

 

[JimmyM]

 

[JimmyM]

It’s pretty hard to top this for (bizarre) clavinet. Or is it a clavioline?

Clavioline.

 

[Richland123]

Joe Sample played the Hohner Clavinet on this song.



Don Grolnick played the Hohner Clavinet on this song.

 

[JimmyM]

As I get older I’m more fascinated by the use of these crazy-weird old instruments to make “modern” music.

A clavinet is crazy weird?

 

[craigie]

This is an awesome thread. I’m going to listen to all these songs tomorrow.

 

[charlie monroe]

In keeping with the Steely Dan suggestions, I'll put Kid Charlemagne forward as my pick.

 

[2tonic]

Here's a few....

 

[Smoove-Groove]

I used to own a hohner d6. Wish I never sold it. I could never get the funky syncopated thing going.
I always liked this intro

 

[biguglyman]

 

[2tonic]

And some more....

 

[Londo Molari]

 

[beans-on-toast]

Close, a Hohner Pianet




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