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Oliver_Stoned
1/26/02
11:41:26 AM
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If you're suggesting that Lee Harvey Oswald used a Roland D-20, I believe you're in error. All that would have been available to him at the time were Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer electric piano, Farfisa ("96 Tears") organ and the legendary Hammond B-3. Since any working musician/conspiracy theorist knows that it takes 5 men and a boy to move a Hammond B-3 anywhere, that rules out Oswald setting up one in the book suppository. Whether or not he used the Leslie cabinet as well is immaterial. Despite serious flaws elsewhere, I believe the Warren Commission's ballistic tests prove that the B-3 was ruled out as a weapon of destruction unless used in the manner of Gregg Allman, i.e., through a Marshall Bass Stack. The Wurlitzer and Rhodes were probably not powerful enough, despite the deafening single tones that can be accomplished provided today's high-powered amplification. You can kill with one NOW, but in late '63 nobody but an idiot would have ran one through a Fender Bassman Amp, the only amp that could handle the 20 seconds or so of auditory abuse necessary to kill a Commander-in-Chief at that distance. That leaves the Farfisa, the Uzi of portable organs. As Augie Meyers, legendary sidekick of Doug Sahm, said in a recent telephone interview; "How the FUCK did you get this number? Was it that miserable bastard Kurt? I'm sick of you conspiracy theorists hounding me, wanting to sample my Farfisa for your goddamn tests. Listen, Oswald used a Mannlicher-Carcano mail-order Italian rifle, and got off 6 shots quicker than any human before or since. He acted alone, I'm telling you. Jesus, man, I have to gig in this town. Now leave me the fuck alone!" So while the truth may never be known, a dark cloud of uncertainty has formed over the "Proof" that Oswald used any Roland product whatsoever. Barring a deathbed confession from one of the conspirators (probably in Cuban, I might add), we may never know exactly what happened that tragic day.
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