Fender Vibratone / Leslie 16 / Leslie 18 (made 1967-1972)

 

 

Artist

Song

Album/CD

Date

Notes

LaVern Baker

Bumble Bee


1960

tremelo on guitar

Jewel Akens

The Birds and the Bees

Very Best of Jewel Akens

1965

tremelo on guitar solos by studio ace Carol Kaye

Gary Lewis and the Playboys

Save Your Heart for Me

Best of Gary Lewis and the Playboys

1965

tremelo on guitar

Beach Boys

You're So Good To Me

Summer Days

1965

tremelo on guitar

Beatles

It's Only Love

Help!

 1965

tremelo on guitar in right channel

Beach Boys

Pet Sounds

Pet Sounds

1966

tremelo on guitar

Beatles

Tomorrow Never Knows (alternate cut)

Beatles Anthology 2

1966

chorus on vocal (probably a Leslie)

New Colony Six

I Lie Awake

At the River's Edge; Colonized (Best of)

1966

tremelo on guitar

The Lords

Don't Mince Matter

The Good Side of June

1966

 

Elvis Presley

Stop, Look and Listen

Spinout (soundtrack)

1966

Cordovox CL-10 on guitar. Awesome video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH7qW2q5on0

Beatles

With a Little Help From My Friends

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1967

chorus on guitar in lead-in before vocal

Beatles

Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

1967

tremelo on guitar in chorus

Beatles

Magical Mystery Tour

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

chorus on guitar and background vocals

Beatles

Blue Jay Way

Magical Mystery Tour

1967

tremelo on lead vocal in chorus, background vocals throughout

Byrds

My Back Pages (alternate take)

Younger Than Yesterday (CD)

1967

tremelo on lead guitar

Zombies

Beechwood Park

Odessey and Oracle

1967

tremelo on guitar

Jimi Hendrix

Little Wing

Axis: Bold As Love

1967

chorus on guitar (could be Univibe?)

Beatles

While My Guitar Gently Weeps

The Beatles ("White Album")

1968

sounds like chorus on lead guitar (Eric Clapton), but it's an engineer changing the tape speed manually

Beatles

Yer Blues

The Beatles ("White Album")

1968

tremelo on guitar before solo

Byrds

Get To You

Notorious Byrd Brothers

1968

tremelo on background vocals

Classics IV

Stormy

Classics IV featuring Dennis Yost

1968

tremelo on second guitar (doing the signature riff)

Cream

As You Said

Wheels of Fire

1968

Leslie on vocal in chorus

Jimi Hendrix

Have You Ever Been to Electric Ladyland

Electric Ladyland

1968

chorus on guitars

Jimi Hendrix

House Burning Down

Electric Ladyland

1968

chorus on guitars

Jimi Hendrix

Little Wing

Electric Ladyland

1968

chorus on guitars

The Lords

Stand By Me

Lords IV: Good Side of June

1968

Leslie on guitar solo

Kenny Rogers & First Edition

Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)

Kenny Rogers & The First Edition - Greatest Hits

1968

tremelo on background vocals

Reparata and the Delrons

Captain of Your Ship

45rpm single

1968

tremelo on guitar

Simon and Garfunkel

America

Bookends

1968

tremelo on acoustic guitar

Beatles

everything in the studio

Let It Be (film)

1969

George keeps the Virbratone on chorus the whole time

Beatles

You Never Give Me Your Money

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar, chorus and bridge

Beatles

The End

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar

Beatles

Carry That Weight

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar at end (segue into guitar solos)

Beatles

Sun King

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar

Beatles

I Want You/She's So Heavy

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar (fingerpicked), intro and "Heavy" chorus

Beatles

Here Comes The Sun

Abbey Road

1969

tremelo on second rhythm guitar doubling 12-string

Beatles

Octopus' Garden

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar (fingerpicked)

Beatles

Because

Abbey Road

1969

harpsichord doubled by guitar through Leslie in intro

Beatles

Something

Abbey Road

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar (fingerpicked)

Beatles

Across the Universe

Get Back

1969

chorus on acoustic guitar

Beatles

Old Brown Shoe

Past Masters, Vol. II

1969

tremelo on solo guitar

Beatles

Let It Be

Past Masters, Vol. II

1969

tremelo on solo guitar

Blind Faith

Well All Right

Blind Faith

1969

distorted chorus "grind" on guitar

Blind Faith

Presence of the Lord

Blind Faith

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar

Blood, Sweat and Tears

You've Made Me So Very Happy

Blood, Sweat and Tears

1969

tremelo on guitar solo towards end

Captain Beefheart & the Magic Band

Neon Meate Dream of a Octafish

Trout Mask Replica

1969

tremelo on opening guitar, chorus on vocal

Jack Bruce

Tickets to Waterfalls

Songs for a Talor

1969

chorus and tremelo on guitar solos between verses

Eric Clapton

No One Knows

Music From Free Creek

1969

tremelo on guitar

Cream

Badge

Goodbye, Cream

1969

chorus on rhythm guitar. Leslie w/ preamp

Cream

Doin' That Scrapyard Thing

Goodbye, Cream

1969

Leslie w/ preamp

Cream

What A Bringdown

Goodbye, Cream

1969

Leslie w/ preamp

Crosby, Still & Nash

Suite Judy Blue Eyes

Crosby, Still & Nash

1969

tremelo/chorus on electric guitar (Leslie + combo preamp?)

Fairport Convention

Crazy Man Michael

Liege & Lief

1969

tremelo on guitar solo

Jethro Tull

Fat Man

Stand Up

1969

tremelo on acoustic guitar

Pink Floyd

Narrow Way, Part 3

Ummagumma

1969

Leslie 147 on intro guitar

Badfinger

No Matter What

No Dice

1970

chorus on guitar

Fairport Convention

Crazy Man Michael

Liege and Lief

1970

tremelo on electric guitar

Grateful Dead

Casey Jones

Working Man's Dead

1970

Chorus on main guitar

Jethro Tull

Teacher

Benefit

1970

vocal, flute and guitar

Jethro Tull

To Cry You A Song

Benefit

1970

vocal and guitar

Jimi Hendrix

Angel

First Rays Of The New Rising Sun

1970

chorus/tremelo on guitar

Paul McCartney

Maybe I'm Amazed

McCartney

1970

chorus on backing guitar in outro

Mountain

Nantucket Sleighride

Nantucket Sleighride

1970

tremelo on guitar

Redbone

Crazy Cajun Cakewalk Band

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Niki Hokey

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Promise I Won't Let It Show

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Minor Seven Heaven

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Jambone

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Little Girl

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Chance to See

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Red and Blue

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

I Can't Handle It

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

I'm A Man

Redbone

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Maggie

Potlatch

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Without Reservation

Potlatch

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

Drinkin' and Blo

Potlatch

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Redbone

New Blue Sermonette

Potlatch

1970

tremelo on lead guitar

Three Dog Night

Liar

Naturally

1970

chorus on guitar

Three Dog Night

One Man Band

Naturally

1970

tremelo and sick fuzz (Fender Blender?) on guitar

Cat Stevens

Sad Lisa

Tea for the Tillerman

1970

tremelo on electric guitar

Frank Zappa

Sharleena

Chunga's Revenge

1970

tremelo and wah on electric guitar

Eric Clapton

Layla

Derek and the Dominoes

1971

chorus on rhythm guitar in final section

Alice Cooper

I'm Eighteen

Love It To Death

1971

chorus on rhythm guitar in verses

J. Geils

The Usual Place

Morning After

1971

termelo on guitar

Led Zeppelin

Black Dog

IV

1971

chorus on lead guitar break

Paul McCartney

Monkberry Moon Delight

Ram

1971

chorus on guitar

Mountain

Nantucket Sleighride

Nantucket Sleighride

1971

chorus on rhythm guitar

Move

The Minister

Message From the Country

1971

termelo on guitar

Pink Floyd

Echoes

Meddle

1971

piano miked and run through Leslie

Poco

Kind Woman

Live

1971

chorus on guitar

Todd Rundgren

Broke Down and Busted

Runt

1971

chorus on guitar

Todd Rundgren

Once Burned

Runt

1971

chorus on guitar

Todd Rundgren

Devil's Bite

Runt

1971

tremelo on intro guitar

Todd Rundgren

Baby, Let's Swing

Runt

1971

tremelo on intro guitar

Todd Rundgren

Birthday Carol

Runt

1971

chorus on lead guitar in first and last sections

Ringo Starr

It Don't Come Easy

Blast From Your Past

1971

chorus on guitar (George Harrison)

Three Dog Night

Family of Man

Harmony

1971

chorus/tremelo on guitar

Three Dog Night

My Impersonal Life

Harmony

1971

chorus/tremelo on guitar

Three Dog Night

Never Dreamed You'd Leave Me in Summer

Harmony

1971

tremelo on guitar

Three Dog Night

Old Fashioned Love Song

Harmony

1971

chorus/tremelo on guitar

The Who

The Song is Over

Who's Next

1971

chorus on guitar

Jackson Browne

I Am A Child

Saturate Before Using

1972

tremelo on electric guitar

Poco

Good Feeling to Know

Good Feeling to Know

1972

tremelo on guitar

Three Dog Night

Old Kentucky Home

Seven Separate Fools

1972

tremelo on guitar

Three Dog Night

Pieces of April

Seven Separate Fools

1972

tremelo on guitar

Rolling Stones

Let It Loose

Exile on Main Street

1972

tremelo on guitar

Taj Mahal

Going up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue

The Real Thing

1972

tremelo on guitar

Funkadelic

This Broken Heart

Cosmic Slop

1973

tremelo on guitar

Elton John

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

1973

chorus on guitar

Little Feat

On Your Way Down

Dixie Chicken

1973

chorus on guitar

Nektar

Remember the Future

Remember the Future

1973

wood Leslie on guitar

Nektar

Wheel of TIme

Remember the Future

1973

wood Leslie on guitar

Pink Floyd

Breathe

Dark Side of the Moon

1973

chorus on solo guitar (Leslie 900)

Pink Floyd

Time

Dark Side of the Moon

1973

tremelo + speed change on background vocals

Pink Floyd

Us and Them

Dark Side of the Moon

1973

chorus on intro guitar (Leslie 900)

Pink Floyd

Any Colour You Like

Dark Side of the Moon

1973

tremelo on solo guitar ( (Leslie 900)

Pink Floyd

Brain Damage/Eclipse

Dark Side of the Moon

1973

chorus on electric guitar, tremelo on backup vocals

Ace How Long Five-A-Side 1974 chorus on guitar solo

Dan Fogelberg

Part of the Plan

Souvenirs

1974

chorus/tremelo on slide guitar

Hollies

The Air That I Breathe

Air That I Breathe

1974

chorus on electric guitar (intro, solos)

King Crimson

Lament

Starless and Bible Black

1974

Leslie on guitar, first two verses

Rolling Stones

If You Really Want To Be My Friend

It's Only Rock and Roll

1974

tremelo on guitar

Led Zeppelin

The Wanton Song

Physical Graffiti

1975

tremelo on guitar in bridge

Orleans

Time Passes On

Let There Be Music / Still the One

1975

chorus on electric guitar, tremelo guitar solo

Pink Floyd

Shine On, You Crazy Diamond (Pt. 2)

Wish You Were Here

1975

intro guitar (Leslie 760)

Pink Floyd

Have a Cigar

Wish You Were Here

1975

chorus on intro guitar riff

Supertramp

Ain't Nobody But Me

Crisis? What Crisis?

1975

tremelo on guitar

Blondie

In the Flesh

Blondie

1976

chorus on rhythm guitar

Peter Frampton

I Wanna Go To the Sun

Comes Alive

1976

"I do use the Leslie all the time." Currently uses modified 147

Peter Frampton

Do You Feel Like We Do

Comes Alive

1976

"I do use the Leslie all the time." Currently uses modified 147

Elton John

Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds

Here and There

1976

chorus on intro guitar riff. Doppola?

Orleans

Waking and Dreaming

Waking and Dreaming / Still the One

1976

chorus on intro guitar riff. Doppola?

Stevie Wonder

Saturn

Songs in the Key of Life

1976

tremelo on guitar

Eric Clapton

Cocaine

Slowhand

1977

chorus on rhythm guitar (left channel)

Eric Clapton

The Core

Slowhand

1977

tremelo on riff guitar (right channel)

Dan Fogelberg

Once Upon a Time

Nether Lands

1977

 

Pink Floyd

Dogs

Animals

1977

Yamaha RA-200 on guitar

Pink Floyd

Comfortably Numb

The Wall

1977

Yamaha RA-200 on guitar

Klaatu

Hope

Hope

1977

two Leslie guitars

Klaatu

Prelude

Hope

1977

 

Supertramp

From Now On

Even In The Quietest Moments

1977

tremelo on guitar

Supertramp

Give a Little Bit

Even In The Quietest Moments

1977

chorus/tremelo on electric guitar

Ohio Players

Baby Come Back

Danger Zone

1978

tremelo on double guitars in intro

Danny Gatton

Redneck Jazz

Redneck Jazz

1978

tremelo on guitar

Danny Gatton

Sax Fifth Avenue

Redneck Jazz Explosion

1978

tremelo on second guitar

Danny Gatton

Canadian Sunset

Redneck Jazz Explosion

1978

tremelo on guitar (compare to electronic phaser on steel guitar)

Danny Gatton

Little Darlin'

Redneck Jazz Explosion

1978

tremelo on guitar (while comping only)

Danny Gatton

Song of India

Redneck Jazz Explosion

1978

tremelo on guitar

Danny Gatton

Ugly Man

Redneck Jazz

1978

 

Danny Gatton

Comin Home, Baby

Redneck Jazz Explosion

1978

tremelo on guitar (alternates w/ phasing)

David Gilmour

Raise My Rent

David Gilmour

1978

Yamaha RA-200

David Gilmour

It's Definitely

David Gilmour

1978

Yamaha RA-200

Fabulous Thunderbirds

One's Too Many

Butt Rockin'

1981

tremelo on guitar

Tommy Tutone

867-5309/Jenny

Tommy Tutone 2

1981

solo switches from slow to fast in last notes

Culture Club

Karma Chameleon

Colour By Numbers

1983

tremelo on guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Cold Shot

Couldn't Stand The Weather

1984

tremelo on guitar (multiple amps)

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Couldn't Stand The Weather

Couldn't Stand The Weather

1984

tremelo on guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughn

The Things I Used to Do

Couldn't Stand The Weather

1984

tremelo on guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Tin Pan Alley

Couldn't Stand The Weather

1984

tremelo on guitar (multiple amps)

Big Guitars From Texas

Sunburn

That's Cool, That's Trash

1986

tremelo on solo guitar

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Willie the Wimp (And His Cadillac Coffin)

Live Alive

1986

chorus/tremelo on guitar

They Might Be Giants

Women and Men

Flood

1990

tremelo on guitar

Kentucky Headhunters

Big Mexican Dinner

Electric Barnyard

1991

tremelo on guitar

R.E.M.

Endgame

Out Of Time

1991

chorus on electric guitar

R.E.M.

Shiny Happy People

Out Of Time

1991

chorus on electric guitar (weak, could be pedal)

Danny Gatton

One For Lenny

New York Stories, Vol. 1

1992

chorus on guitar (subtle miking)

Nirvana

Come As You Are

Nevermind

1992

chorus on intro guitar, tremelo on song chorus

Taj Mahal

Blues Ain't Nothin

Dancing the Blues

1993

tremelo on rhythm guitar

Leon Russell

Delta Lady

Delta Lady

1993

George Harrison (on reissue CD only)

Korn

Lies

Korn

1994

 

Korn

Shoots and Ladders

Korn

1994

 

Soundgarden

Black Hole Sun

Superunknown

1994

tremelo on slide and arpeggiated guitars

Tom Petty

You Don't Know How It Feels

Wildflowers

1994

tremelo on guitar

Paula Cole

Happy Home

Harbinger

1995

tremelo on second guitar in outro

Joan Osborne

Ladder

Relish

1995

tremelo on guitar

Tom Petty

You Don't Know How It Feels

Wildflowers

1995

tremelo on solo, fill behind third verse

Paula Cole

Me

This Fire

1996

tremelo on second guitar

Shawn Colvin

Sunny Came Home

A Few Small Repairs

1996

tremelo on guitar

Danny Gatton

Linus and Lucy

In Concert

1996

chorus on guitar

Danny Gatton

Apache Surf Medley

In Concert

1996

chorus on guitar

Angelique Kidjo

Welcome

Fifa

1996

tremelo on guitar intro to chorus

Korn

Kill You

Life is Peachy

1996

 

R.E.M.

New Test Leper

New Adventures In Hi Fi

1996

tremelo on guitar in chorus

R.E.M.

Low Desert

New Adventures In Hi Fi

1996

tremelo on lead guitar

Dream Theatre

Anna Lee

Falling Into Infinity

1997

tremelo in chorus

Green Day

Redundant

Nimrod

1997

tremelo on guitar in chorus

Jimi Hendrix

Tax Free

South Saturn Delta

1997

tremelo on guitar in right channel

Pat Martino

Too High

All Sides Now

1997

Charlie Hunter on 8-string Leslie guitar

Third Eye Blind

Background

Third Eye Blind

1997

Leslie cabinet

U2

Staring at the Sun

Pop

1997

tremelo on guitar

Chris Cornell

Wave Goodbye

Euphoria Morning

1999

tremelo on backing guitar

Paula Cole

La Tonya

Amen

1999

chorus/tremelo on guitar

Paula Cole

Be Somebody

Amen

1999

tremelo on reverse guitar

Wilco

Via Chicago

Summer Teeth

1999

Maestro Rover on guitar

Billy Bragg

Feed of Man

Mermaid Avenue Volume II

2000

tremelo on guitar in left channel

Counting Crows

High Life

This Desert Life

2000

 

Tracy Chapman

Nothing Yet

Telling Stories

2000

chorus on guitar

Tracy Chapman

Devotion

Telling Stories

2000

tremelo on guitar

Trey Gunn

Joy of Molybdenum

Joy of Molybdenum

2000

tremelo on lead guitar

Mark Knopfler

Let's See You

What It Is

2000

tremelo on guitar in chorus

Sonny Landreth

Soul Salvation

Levee Town

2000

Stephen Bruton, acoustic guitar through Leslie

Marilyn Manson

Lamb of God

Holy Wood

2000

tremelo on backing guitar

Joan Osborne

Righteous Love

Righteous Love

2000

tremelo on backing guitar

Wallflowers

Birdcage

Breach

2000

tremelo on lead guitar

Wishbone Ash

Shoulda, Woulda, Coulda

Bonafide

2002

tremelo on backing guitar

Joan Osborne

Love's In Need Of Love Today

How Sweet It Is

2002

tremelo on backing guitar

Bruce Springsteen

Empty Sky

The Rising

2002

Steven Van Zandt on guitars

Bruce Springsteen

Mary's Place

The Rising

2002

Steven Van Zandt on guitars

Bruce Springsteen

My City of Ruins

The Rising

2002

Steven Van Zandt on guitars

Wilco

Radio Cure

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot

2002

Leslie banjo

Val Emmich

Boy Who Cried Wolf

Slow Down Kid

2004

tremelo on guitar

Melissa Ethridge

When You Find the One

Lucky

2004

wood Leslie w/ preamp on guitar

Dar Williams

Beautiful Enemy

My Better Self

2005

tremelo on guitar

Taj Mahal

Zanzibar

Maestro

2008

tremelo on electric guitar

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