Re: [Harp-L] Re: The Best

[BostonMoeJo@xxxxxxx]

Shall we continue to flog this dead horse?  Sheesh
 
 
In a message dated 11/30/2006 2:10:20 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
harri.haka@xxxxxxxx writes:

Jazmaan  wrote:

>It's pretty clear
> that some harmonica players are  better than others.   But 
> above a certain level, it becomes  harder
> to distinguish among them.   Even if there were a  judged 
> chromatic harp competition between
> Stevie, Toots,  Hendrik, Robert, Wim and whoever else wanted 
> to compete, and even if  Stevie was the
> unanimous choice of the judges, SOMEBODY would insist  that 
> Stevie was still not the best.
> To which I would say  "Stevie is still the best, even if some 
> refuse to acknowledge  it."
> But that's just my opinion.  (Even if I am  right!)

This thread seems to go on and I still wonder (no pun intended)  why only 
chromatic players would be eligible for the title of "the best".  That's like 
excluding Hendrix as best guitar player because he very rarely  played twelve 
string. Diatonic doesn't leave a player below "a certain  level".

Instead of "the best" I learned to use the term "my favorite"  and for me 
that is Little Walter. To remind where it all started for Little  Stevie, a quote 
from the book "Harmonicas, Harps and Heavy Breathers": "By the  time a family 
friend gave Wonder a tiny, four-hole harmonica on a key chain,  he had 
already come under the spell of Jimmy Reed and Little Walter  Jacobs..."

Harri

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