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This is a song I wrote called "Jethro on Death Row". It's a country song, and features the Nord's B3 organ and rotary alongside nylon-string rhythm guitar, muted electric guitar, home-made 6-string banjo and electric upright bass, all played by myself. Or should I say, my alter-ego, Wayne Gutbucket III...

The song also features my home-made half-moon switch, which I find makes the rotary speed changes easier and more natural.

You're a sick puppy....lol Loved it

All played with NE3 samples or real guitars?
Nice arrangement.

Hi, and thanks! Yes, all the other instruments are real (I'm very old-skool when it comes to using real instruments). If there is an instrument I want to use and I don't own it or can't play it, then I might use a Nord Mellotron sound, or even my old Casio WK-3000, which has some great orchestral instrument sounds. On one of my songs I even used an iPad autoharp app!I never use keyboard bass, and these days I usually use a Stagg electric upright rather than bass guitar. I'm a much better bass player than I am a guitarist, but I play enough six-string to do what I need to.

Here are some other songs. The first three are more comedy country songs by "Wayne Gutbucket III":

I Just Can't Stand the Way That She Makes Pies (no Nord on this one)


Radio W.I.M.P. (Nord Wurly)


Don't Buy a Banjo, My Son (Nord upright)


The last one is more of a funk number.

Genie (Nord Wurly and B3; Casio WK-3000 horn section; drums programmed in HammerHead 1.0 and arranged in Audacity)