Gary Versace
Organ Solo on
Five Bucks A Bungalow

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Gary Versace follows Jonathan Kreisberg with ten commanding choruses on the Hammond organ on "Five Bucks A Bungalow" at approximately 261 BPM, his playing equally authoritative as he exploits the full tonal palette of the instrument over the 12-bar blues in F. From gritty blues growls to sweeping upper-register runs, Versace's ten-chorus solo demonstrates the Hammond organ's capacity to match the guitar's intensity and range in this extended blues format. Following Kreisberg's fourteen-chorus opening, his sustained improvisation keeps the performance at peak energy before Mark Ferber's closing drum solo.

Gary Versace was 35 to 36 years old at the time.