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Tony Monaco is one of the most impressive grooving musicians you’ll ever have a chance to see. He represents Hammond each year at NAMM, and this year was no exception.
Monaco was demonstrating the range of sound he could get by using the combination of a laptop to generate beats, pedals for bass, and the two [...]

 

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We had a chance to see Tony Monaco again at NAMM, and like always, we were impressed by his incredible musicianship and his warmth.
This is the way he greeted us - even though we’d only really talked to him in any depth once before at the Summer NAMM show in Indianapolis.
What a pro! [...]

 

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Tony Monaco demonstrated how he could gig and get a massive sound by using laptop beats as his rhythm section, the pedals for bass, one keyboad of the Hammond for chords with a B3 sound, [...]

 

Tony Monaco at the 2008 Winter NAMM show.
Man, can he play the Hammond B3.