Color-overlay on gradient in Illustrator CS 5.1

Is there a way to, as in Photoshop's effects gallery, create a color-overlay on an already-done gradient in Illustrator CS 5.1? I've already done the gradient and I have my color, but can't quite make it work.
Does someone know the answer, or are there really easy way to do this that I've failed to notice?
Thanks!

Use the appearance pallete to create another fill, then change the blending mode for the fill on to one of the blending modes (eg: multiply, overlay).

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