Get Behind Fanny: Episode 36 Get Behind Fanny

Episode 36! In this episode, we continue to shake things up by continuing our hashtag series. This episode is #JuneJams as we cover Fanny’s guitarist June Millington! We asked June what three songs she wanted to feature and she picked “Place In The Country,” “Badge,” and “It Takes a Lotta Good Lovin'”. We’ll continue with more of #JuneJams in episode 37 so ask any questions for June using the hashtag #JuneJams!

And don’t forget to look below for Fanny roadie Segrave’s email about June’s amp set-up back in the day.

From Segrave, Fanny’s Roadie:

I don’t remember June ever using anything but a Wah-wah pedal. She also had a Fender Twin reverb amp with JBL speakers. For the guitar through the Leslie [speaker], I built an adapter with a pedal having two buttons. One disconnected the speakers in the amp (actually it substituted a very high power resistor for the speakers, as simply disconnecting them would have damaged the amp). At the same time, it disconnected one of Nickey’s two Leslies from the B3 [Hammond organ] and substituted a tapped off signal from the resistor to feed the Leslie (Leslies have their own amplifiers built in, a B3 doesn’t actually have any power output at all). The other button changed the rotation rate of the Leslie when it was switched to June’s amp instead of the B3. So in effect, the B3 had one cable going directly to the Leslie just behind Nickey (we put it on a flight case to bring the sound closer to ear level). The other Leslie cable from the B3 went to my adapter. June’s speakers were not plugged into her amp; the speakers and the amp were both plugged into my adapter. Then there was a third Leslie cable from the adapter to the Leslie on June’s side of the stage.