This is Charlie Balogh playing Ghostbusters & Thriller at Organ Stop Pizza. A few years ago, Charlie played Ghostbusters. A couple of years ago, Charlie Balogh had an anniversary of playing Ghostbusters at Organ Stop Pizza. An anniversary of having a couple of years back; 2016-2018. Unfortunately, last season, Charlie Balogh passed away, due to a massive stroke. A, at 68. And B, 1951 is where Charlie Balogh was born. Charlie Balogh Halloween, 1951-November 20th, 2019.
I love this music the player is great love to be there to hear this, which there was one of those organ stop pizza in Massachusetts, for some reason this bring tears to my eyes hearing this music
Last time I was there, you knew good times were coming cause the lights would change and the organ world appear up from inside the stage, it was inspiring, gave me chills... I'm thrilled the place is still around and grateful for these videos, but none show a show from start (rising from the floor) to finish, I want to show it off to people, but for them to get an idea of the whole scope I need a bid that shows the complete event, lights down to lights up, etc
Dass hört och echt geil und suuuuuper an an der großen Pizzakonzert Orgel der Hammer ein Fach Hammer geil mega.Dass ist auch meine Musik was ich der sehr Liebe war.Einfach geil nur geil der Hammer.
While the food isn't astoundingly good like a specialty Italian restaurant might be, it's still very good. The pizza is their main selling point, but they also offer things like bread sticks, spaghetti, and various other alternatives. Unfortunately the drinks are sold per pitcher and per glass. It's always been that way, so I'd suggest you buy a pitcher. They do also have beers, and you can top off the evening with an ice cream if you like.
heh ghostbusters , it dont sound too bad but its a bit soft, needs more punch and sharpness, but it sounds like something from out of this world, in the registery of the pipes and stops of the organ. but it sure dont look easy keeping the insterment on que like that. but the slower thriller suited the organ just fine, and the long winded words of the song gave the organ time to use its big long winded voice, and the vox humana brought it to another level, and the deeper more haunting sounds that is perfect for such an insterment as this. signed J manga12
I think part of it's performance is lost in the quality of the recording. Those little camera mics are more for casual sound instead of actually capturing the full throaty quality of the organ's output. I can assure you it would sound much nicer in person. Or you could grab one of their CDs from their website www.organstopppiza.com which are made with high quality equipment, and the organ is usually tuned up and tweaked before the recording takes place. Also, they tend to record all performances of the organ via the MIDI system and Mr. Balogh will tweak and combine the best aspects of different performances for the recording session, in which the organ literally plays itself via MIDI playback of that 'perfected' performance.
You know, i think that was a personnal choice, because this organ has A LOT of "punching" registers. But eh ... since it's a theatre organ, he probably wanted to keep the famous sounds, instead of just doing an exact replica ... (also i wanted to mention how Stacko was rude and not pleasant to you. That's not very noice Stacko, bad boi.)
The organst's name is Charlie Balogh. He's been playing there since I was a child, and I've enjoyed many hours of his performances while growing up before I moved out of Arizona. (The instrument is housed in Organ Stop Pizza, a restaurant, in Mesa, Arizona)
Hello Shalmendo. Thanks for your reply. wow you had a great childhood if you could watch and hear him many time. i am impressed of his performance and the organs as well. would love to see and experience it in real.
Experiencing it personally is a big difference from looking at it on a video. When the bass diaphones are used you can feel the vibrations going through your chest. While I didn't have a fantastic childhood this is one of the fondest memories I have and I believe that this instrument spurned my entire ongoing interest in vintage music styles and organs of all kinds. I'd love to have a band organ in my house someday. (you should look those up they're pretty sweet). Before I moved out of AZ I went to Organ Stop one last time and kind of nearly cried as the Organ was played, considering how I'd probably not see it functional again, as, by the time I returned to AZ on a trip or something, it might be closed down. It's one of the few things I'll really miss. At least I stopped Mr. Balogh on his way out from the organ console and told him how much I appreciated his many years of performances. I'd always wanted to talk to him but felt too shy to. (Don't be shy like I was, he's a wonderful man! Stop him and tell him how great he is!)
hello Shalmendo, Thanks for extending reply and share me your story and perspective. i can imagine if you hear the organ there you feel the vibrations in your body. thats great to experience that. And that since than you love organs. what is a band organ? the one who is in Organ Stop Piza? I understand that if this organ make such big impression in your childhood that it made you cry. I miss also some things of the past and that hurts, but i not get it back with that. I wonder how to make my life and future better than the past. Its good you talk with this Mr Balogh. And that you felt shy before. the fear of get rejected or something. I wonder if i can ever see this organ or Mr Balogh in real. I hope so
The instrument at Organ Stop Pizza is called a 'theatre organ'. They were initially introduced during the Great Depression when silent films employed a complete orchestra in an orchestra pit to accompany the films. Theater owners realized that paying a single organist was a massive savings compared to employing a complete orchestra, so they became quite popular. A Band organ on the other hand is much smaller and designed to have simple percussion and some extra instrumentation aside from a couple of pipe ranks (a set of pipes with a single tone palate are called a rank), usually things like accordions or wind instruments. they were commonly employed in dance halls to provide automated music play, many were coin operated. If you want to see this instrument, You need to go Mesa, Arizona where it's housed in a restaurant that serves Italian food and pizza. On another note, the organists do take requests which you can write on a card and drop into a little box he checks before starting each performance. You can find more information on their website at www.organstopppizza.com
The drums and other percussion instruments are all part of the overall organ mechanism. The organist can play the drums using 2 different methods...1st he can play them directly using stops built into the organ that lets him/her do so with the keyboard. 2nd he can record drum tracks and using a midi interface can play the drum tracks via buttons on the side of the main console. But he does need to directly play the drums/percussion in order to record the drum tracks to begin with.... If you go to www.organstoppizza.com you can see all the "instruments" that are part of this magnificent organ..
When l tell you that the organist is playing with a drum track, most people will assume there is a speaker in the back of the room that is playing an audio recording of a drummer. This is not the case at Organ Stop Pizza. There is no speaker playing in the back of the room. At Organ Stop Pizza, the drum track is a mechanism that is similar to a player piano roll. You know, like a paper roll with small holes that play individual piano keys (as the paper slowly moves from one roll to the other). However, in this case, each hole plays one of the many percussion instruments that are scattered throughout the Organ Stop dining room. If you have been to Organ Stop Pizza, you will have noticed, as you look around the room, a snare drum over here on this wall, a crash cymbal over there on that wall, and a mirade of other percussion instruments scattered throughout the dining room. Well, the drum track is actually playing all these instuments (drums and cymbals and tambourine-type instruments) ALL AT THE SAME TIME. The drum track for each song is electronic, so it doesn't really use paper with holes, it actually uses a computer that sends the perfectly-timed instructions to each percussion instrument at just the right moment in time. The result is this........ it sounds like a professional drummer is setting at a drum set, playing along with the organist. Here is what happens.... When the organist pushes the button that starts the drum track, the mechanism starts controlling ALL of the drum-type instruments in the room, these instruments are being played LIVE, and this continues until the song is completely over. WELLLLLLL, let me tell you, this is an AWESOME effect. You can't really imagine how it sounds until you experience it first-hand. Go see it in action for yourself. You will be truly amazed. SIDE NOTE: For those of you that are technically minded --- YES the mechanism uses MIDI-type signaling and YES the organist must create each song's drum track file before it can performed in front of an audience. There IS a speaker that plays audio like wolves howling, creepy screams, evil laughter, and "Ghost Busters." Drum audio is not played through these speakers. CHEERS!!!
The drums aren't part of the organ. There are drums and other instruments in front and above the organist. There is even a xylophone above him he can activate. Hope that explains it better.
If I may clarify, every instrument present is part of the organ. The entire system operates on a MIDI control, and uses servos to activate instruments that can't be activated through the normal pneumatic actuation (the grand player piano is one such example). Most of the percussion etc is taken up by an automated 'digital drummer' that Mr. Balogh configures prior to each playing and manages through the toy board present in the cabinets, on the side, discrete buttons throughout the console, and some foot switches.
As a child, I remember him playing at a similar restaurant in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Charlie was one of a kind.
I loved going to good time Charlie’s in Kentwood every Friday night for dinner
This is Charlie Balogh playing Ghostbusters & Thriller at Organ Stop Pizza.
A few years ago, Charlie played Ghostbusters.
A couple of years ago, Charlie Balogh had an anniversary of playing Ghostbusters at Organ Stop Pizza.
An anniversary of having a couple of years back; 2016-2018.
Unfortunately, last season, Charlie Balogh passed away, due to a massive stroke. A, at 68. And B, 1951 is where Charlie Balogh was born.
Charlie Balogh
Halloween, 1951-November 20th, 2019.
This brought back memories. Miss you, Charlie. RIP November 24, 2019.
"Gone, but not forgotten."
"There won't be another one, like him?" 🤔
i went there tonight. he played the Phantom of the Opera theme song and i was SCREAMING. it was AMAZING!!! this place really blows my mind !!!!
I wish I did not live on the other side of the earth when watching those videos!
Visits would have been done a frequent basis :)
RW:thats a very popular music when it gets a request from anyone.😁
RIP Charlie
The Ghost of Charlie Balogh
This topped off my very first visit to Phoenix / Mesa 5 years ago. From South Bend, IN.
I literally live three blocks away and NEVER knew this was here!
I love this music the player is great love to be there to hear this, which there was one of those organ stop pizza in Massachusetts, for some reason this bring tears to my eyes hearing this music
Went there and it was fantastic , loved it , I highly recommend it for anyone visiting Arizona.
I’m glad I live in AZ
Last time I was there, you knew good times were coming cause the lights would change and the organ world appear up from inside the stage, it was inspiring, gave me chills... I'm thrilled the place is still around and grateful for these videos, but none show a show from start (rising from the floor) to finish, I want to show it off to people, but for them to get an idea of the whole scope I need a bid that shows the complete event, lights down to lights up, etc
Love the Wurlitzer organ.
Thriller begins at 03:45!
It's my birthday tradition to go to Organ Stop! I'll be going there tonight!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Visited this place back in the early 80's. Awesome experience!
Absolutely loved this. Such fun.
The mighty Wurlitzer
how amazing is it if can play like this. what a great organ and organ player. would love to see in real.
Organ Stop Pizza in Mesa, Arizona.
When you go sit on the upper level to see all the action!
best organist I might just need to go there myself
That is AWESOME !
A 3D version of the organ sounds awesome.
Dass hört och echt geil und suuuuuper an an der großen Pizzakonzert Orgel der Hammer ein Fach Hammer geil mega.Dass ist auch meine Musik was ich der sehr Liebe war.Einfach geil nur geil der Hammer.
Or finde ich Mega geil der Hammer die Pizza Orgel klasse.Moni Wojdak aus Dessau.
Charlie was the best! 0:32
👍👍👍👍👍
reminds me of Max Takanos version
How's the Pizzia? Play On Charley!
Pretty good pizza. Charley is awesome!
the pizza isn't half bad.
While the food isn't astoundingly good like a specialty Italian restaurant might be, it's still very good. The pizza is their main selling point, but they also offer things like bread sticks, spaghetti, and various other alternatives.
Unfortunately the drinks are sold per pitcher and per glass. It's always been that way, so I'd suggest you buy a pitcher. They do also have beers, and you can top off the evening with an ice cream if you like.
I’d like to hear him play this WITHOUT the canned soundtrack behind him.
And he did wonderfully, in every style you can possibly imagine! This is a 'special' he worked up for halloween for the kids to shout to!
heh ghostbusters , it dont sound too bad but its a bit soft, needs more punch and sharpness, but it sounds like something from out of this world, in the registery of the pipes and stops of the organ. but it sure dont look easy keeping the insterment on que like that.
but the slower thriller suited the organ just fine, and the long winded words of the song gave the organ time to use its big long winded voice, and the vox humana brought it to another level, and the deeper more haunting sounds that is perfect for such an insterment as this.
signed J manga12
manga12 Let's see you do better!
well they wont just let anyone play that organ
I think part of it's performance is lost in the quality of the recording. Those little camera mics are more for casual sound instead of actually capturing the full throaty quality of the organ's output. I can assure you it would sound much nicer in person. Or you could grab one of their CDs from their website www.organstopppiza.com which are made with high quality equipment, and the organ is usually tuned up and tweaked before the recording takes place. Also, they tend to record all performances of the organ via the MIDI system and Mr. Balogh will tweak and combine the best aspects of different performances for the recording session, in which the organ literally plays itself via MIDI playback of that 'perfected' performance.
You know, i think that was a personnal choice, because this organ has A LOT of "punching" registers. But eh ... since it's a theatre organ, he probably wanted to keep the famous sounds, instead of just doing an exact replica ... (also i wanted to mention how Stacko was rude and not pleasant to you. That's not very noice Stacko, bad boi.)
who is this great organ master?
The organst's name is Charlie Balogh. He's been playing there since I was a child, and I've enjoyed many hours of his performances while growing up before I moved out of Arizona. (The instrument is housed in Organ Stop Pizza, a restaurant, in Mesa, Arizona)
Hello Shalmendo. Thanks for your reply. wow you had a great childhood if you could watch and hear him many time. i am impressed of his performance and the organs as well. would love to see and experience it in real.
Experiencing it personally is a big difference from looking at it on a video. When the bass diaphones are used you can feel the vibrations going through your chest. While I didn't have a fantastic childhood this is one of the fondest memories I have and I believe that this instrument spurned my entire ongoing interest in vintage music styles and organs of all kinds. I'd love to have a band organ in my house someday. (you should look those up they're pretty sweet). Before I moved out of AZ I went to Organ Stop one last time and kind of nearly cried as the Organ was played, considering how I'd probably not see it functional again, as, by the time I returned to AZ on a trip or something, it might be closed down. It's one of the few things I'll really miss. At least I stopped Mr. Balogh on his way out from the organ console and told him how much I appreciated his many years of performances. I'd always wanted to talk to him but felt too shy to. (Don't be shy like I was, he's a wonderful man! Stop him and tell him how great he is!)
hello Shalmendo, Thanks for extending reply and share me your story and perspective. i can imagine if you hear the organ there you feel the vibrations in your body. thats great to experience that. And that since than you love organs. what is a band organ? the one who is in Organ Stop Piza?
I understand that if this organ make such big impression in your childhood that it made you cry. I miss also some things of the past and that hurts, but i not get it back with that. I wonder how to make my life and future better than the past. Its good you talk with this Mr Balogh. And that you felt shy before. the fear of get rejected or something. I wonder if i can ever see this organ or Mr Balogh in real. I hope so
The instrument at Organ Stop Pizza is called a 'theatre organ'. They were initially introduced during the Great Depression when silent films employed a complete orchestra in an orchestra pit to accompany the films. Theater owners realized that paying a single organist was a massive savings compared to employing a complete orchestra, so they became quite popular. A Band organ on the other hand is much smaller and designed to have simple percussion and some extra instrumentation aside from a couple of pipe ranks (a set of pipes with a single tone palate are called a rank), usually things like accordions or wind instruments. they were commonly employed in dance halls to provide automated music play, many were coin operated.
If you want to see this instrument, You need to go Mesa, Arizona where it's housed in a restaurant that serves Italian food and pizza. On another note, the organists do take requests which you can write on a card and drop into a little box he checks before starting each performance. You can find more information on their website at www.organstopppizza.com
Who's playing the drums?
He has buttons and switches for drums and a number of other instruments he can trigger when needed.
I am aware of this, but those don't sound like theater organ drums
It's a drum machine created by the owner of the organ grinder restaurant
The drums and other percussion instruments are all part of the overall organ mechanism. The organist can play the drums using 2 different methods...1st he can play them directly using stops built into the organ that lets him/her do so with the keyboard. 2nd he can record drum tracks and using a midi interface can play the drum tracks via buttons on the side of the main console. But he does need to directly play the drums/percussion in order to record the drum tracks to begin with.... If you go to www.organstoppizza.com you can see all the "instruments" that are part of this magnificent organ..
When l tell you that the organist is playing with a drum track, most people will assume there is a speaker in the back of the room that is playing an audio recording of a drummer. This is not the case at Organ Stop Pizza. There is no speaker playing in the back of the room. At Organ Stop Pizza, the drum track is a mechanism that is similar to a player piano roll. You know, like a paper roll with small holes that play individual piano keys (as the paper slowly moves from one roll to the other). However, in this case, each hole plays one of the many percussion instruments that are scattered throughout the Organ Stop dining room. If you have been to Organ Stop Pizza, you will have noticed, as you look around the room, a snare drum over here on this wall, a crash cymbal over there on that wall, and a mirade of other percussion instruments scattered throughout the dining room. Well, the drum track is actually playing all these instuments (drums and cymbals and tambourine-type instruments) ALL AT THE SAME TIME. The drum track for each song is electronic, so it doesn't really use paper with holes, it actually uses a computer that sends the perfectly-timed instructions to each percussion instrument at just the right moment in time. The result is this........ it sounds like a professional drummer is setting at a drum set, playing along with the organist. Here is what happens.... When the organist pushes the button that starts the drum track, the mechanism starts controlling ALL of the drum-type instruments in the room, these instruments are being played LIVE, and this continues until the song is completely over. WELLLLLLL, let me tell you, this is an AWESOME effect. You can't really imagine how it sounds until you experience it first-hand. Go see it in action for yourself. You will be truly amazed. SIDE NOTE: For those of you that are technically minded --- YES the mechanism uses MIDI-type signaling and YES the organist must create each song's drum track file before it can performed in front of an audience. There IS a speaker that plays audio like wolves howling, creepy screams, evil laughter, and "Ghost Busters." Drum audio is not played through these speakers. CHEERS!!!
does he take requests or is it what he has planned?
starr fisher It is all requests i believe.
cool
Yes, it is all requests (unless he has only a few, like at less busy times)
cool
Requests are accepted ☺️
The drums aren't part of the organ. There are drums and other instruments in front and above the organist. There is even a xylophone above him he can activate. Hope that explains it better.
Every instrument in that building IS part of the organ....look up definition of a Theater Organ..
If I may clarify, every instrument present is part of the organ. The entire system operates on a MIDI control, and uses servos to activate instruments that can't be activated through the normal pneumatic actuation (the grand player piano is one such example). Most of the percussion etc is taken up by an automated 'digital drummer' that Mr. Balogh configures prior to each playing and manages through the toy board present in the cabinets, on the side, discrete buttons throughout the console, and some foot switches.
They should blow bubbles in the parking lot when they're playing.
His timing was off here and there...
You do better then smartass ........hahahahahahahahahhahahahah.......there is 1/5 second delay between touching the keys and hearing anything!