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A self-professed Prog Snob (poor fellow) from Los Angeles named Jim Allen writes in to nitpick our entry on the Hammond B3 organ [pp. 49-50], which we not only cite as a distinctive element of Bob Dylan’s “Like a Rolling Stone,” but of “the prog extravaganzas of Yes and Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.”

“Keith Emerson used a C3 as his main Hammond, not a B3,” writes Jim, his chances for a date diminishing with each word of his nitpick. “Basically the same electronics, but different cabinet and a few more features on the C3. The organ that he’d ride/knife/throw around on stage was an L100. Rick Wakeman, Patrick Moraz and Geoff Downes, the keyboard players for Yes, also used the C3. The other Yes keyboard player of note, Tony Kaye, used various models, but not a B3.”

Excellent Snobwork, Jim! Though we’re damned if we remember Keith Emerson “knifing” his organ.