Green Eyed Lady Organ Solo

Somehow, like many other things, I missed the brilliance of the "Green Eyed Lady" organ solo. It's like the Eddie Van Halen of organ solos. Here's the thing: I am not into organ at all. Save for Jon Lord of Deep Purple, who gets a pass because he played through a distorted Marshall guitar amp to get his sound. That's just cool. The band was Sugarloaf, and the tune "Green Eyed Lady" was released in 1970 on their debut album. I was nine at the time. The song has a killer bass hook with a menacing quality, made more prominent at times by the organ stabs and guitar playing the same notes at precisely the same time as the bass line. It's very effective. The lyrics also hook you right in. The frontman and keyboardist who played the solo was Jerry Corbetta, and he was one of the song's three writers. Corbetta writes about his girlfriend at the time, who had green eyes. This, according to songfacts.com . Anyway, the organ...