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The caption reads, "Keyboard player Rod Argent from Argent performs live on stage at the London Music Festival at Alexandra Palace Festival in London on 27th July 1973."
27 July 1973 was fifty years ago to-day, and I'm sharing this picture not only because it's the anniversary but also because it's the earliest evidence I've seen of Rod Argent's keyboard rig at its peak. On the left, there are a Mellotron M-400 and a Minimoog Model D, and on the right there are a Hammond organ and what is apparently a Hohner Pianet N.
Argent mentions the Hammond C-3 in this video, but I don't know if that's the specific model in this picture.
I suspect that the picture shows Argent playing "I Am the Dance of Ages." The two live versions I have of the song (at the Palace Theatre on 7 November 1973 and on Encore from 1974) both feature simultaneous Mellotron and Hammond parts.
