Re: [Harp-L] re: Today´s lesson

[Ken Hildebrand <airmojoken@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pimps wanted to look cool, so they dressed like Junior Wells !

Ken H in OH


--- On Wed, 1/28/09, martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [Harp-L] re: Today´s lesson
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Wednesday, January 28, 2009, 5:16 AM
> Hmm, I´m not so sure ... The groove is great, but the
> harmonica playing here is not particularly impressive, to my
> mind. (And, less importantly, about dressing well: the
> fashion sense here is that of pimps. Is that cool?) 
>   There´s much to be said for economy in playing, but
> there´s also something to be said for originality.
>  Jr Wells could play great at times, but seemed to get so
> caught up in mannerisms -- vocal and instrumental -- that
> this became more or less a rarity. I saw him and Buddy Guy
> here in Sweden a couple of times in the 70s, behaving and
> playing so abominably, that in Chicago they´d probably been
> taken out and shot. Here the docile audience just tried to
> clap in time, thinking "this is probably how it´s
> supposed to sound".
>   Pity, ´cause they were both talented.
>  
>  /Martin
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>  
> Today's
> Lesson is about style and delivery rather than technique.
>  Please note
> the use of "space" and the importance of not
> playing a million notes.
> 
> 
> Also please note that dressing well always means playing
> well and says to ones audience, "we know WTF we are
> doing."
> 
> That's what I'm talkin' about.
> 
> Enjoy.
> Http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0s4UPsANq14
> 
> 
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