Re: [Harp-L] Sorry harp l(a non apology from a serious student)

[Eric Nielsen <ericbarnak@xxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps one of the greatest compliments you can give a musician is to play
their music. And the greatest compliment they could give you is to play
yours. It means that souls have touched. It's about being human.

Eric
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 1:10 AM, Robert Paparozzi <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Nicholas,
>
> Look, no one here on harp-l wants you to leave, were NOT that type but as
> others have said you have to be ready to take the heat when others feel a
> bit confronted by racial remarks. You are my sons age and I understand you
> have energy and strong ambitions and opinions and I'm sorry if I came down
> a
> lil' hard but I felt I needed to confront your remarks. I wish you a long
> and healthy and happy career in music if that is your chosen profession.
>
> Why are you so down on White People, when YOU are white, I'm a professional
> Musician my whole life and have stood on stage with artists from BB King to
> Bruce Springsteen....I'm WHITE, I'm Talented, I'm Original and I'm Proud.
>
> And proud should be ANY race and their accomplishments...but whatever led
> you to believe that ONLY blacks have a MONOPOLY on entertainment and
> talent?
>
> Please don't sell yourself short or get caught up in what I've always
> called
> a 'Blues Nazi' attitude, it will get you no where. When I opened for BB
> King
> at age 19 I apologized to BB when we left the stage as we played one of his
> numbers and he said "don't be sorry, you sounded terrific and we ALL love
> the blues" I will never forget that and to that day never apologized for be
> a white person playing blues.
>
> Saying that Kim Wilson & JR Vaughn don't sound WHITE is NOT a compliment,
> in
> MY BOOK it is a racist comment. I grew up in NJ so I learned my blues off
> of
> records and hittin' live shows when they came to NY.
>
> Now Butterfield may not be your cup of tea and that is OK, listening to
> Primich and Wilson and Piazza, man, you are surely in good hand Nicholas!
>
> But, if you get a chance, see if you can find the video of BB KING and
> friends where Albert King, SRV and Butterfield play the Elmore James
> classic, "The Sky is Crying". I think this may change your opinion about
> the
> late great Paul Butterfield. This was shot only a few weeks before they
> found him dead. Listen to the BLUES in VOICE, listen to the PAIN in his
> licks and them tell me this is WHITE BOY CRAP and I'll buy you dinner at a
> steakhouse of your choice....
>
> Stick around here at harp-l, we ALL have put our foot in our mouths a few
> times, but we ALL are the better for it and still have PLENTY to learn.
>
> Take off your coat, tone it down a bit and for God sakes stop listening in
> BLACK and WHITE,-) and stop dissing the overblowers, how BORING would the
> future of BLUES be if we all just played the same licks and only tried to
> emulate old blues guys....where in the heck do you think they got all their
> COOL licks from? From BRAEKIN' the RULES!
>
> Love, Peace and the Blues
> Rob Paparozzi
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>
>
>
> On 7/3/09 11:52 PM, "Nicholas Lovett" <lovett.nicholas@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> >
> > Sorry,
> >
> > I can't resist.  You can chastise me like knights of the keyboard, but
> I'm
> > gonna keep listening to sweet Black sounds on LP's like my favs Bricks in
> My
> > Pillow, Confessin the Blues, Chicago Bound, One Way Out, Tribute to
> Little
> > Walter and yes even What's the Word.  Nothin white about ol Kim!  That's
> a
> > compliment in my book!  Or Jimmie Vaughan.  They used to bill him round
> Austin
> > as Freddy King Jr, that's how much he had Freddie King down.  He used to
> call
> > himself the bad boy, after Eddie Taylor, a style he continues to this
> day.
> > Piazza learned from Big George, a black guy. Or my favorite contemporary
> > player Sugar Ray Norcia.  You're gonna tell me he didn't learn anything
> from
> > Big Walter when Ronnie was gigging with him?  Give me a break.  Louis
> Jordan
> > said that nothing in music or entertainment ever came from whites and hes
> > right.  Yall can keep overblowing hemmin and hawin, etc but sorry, I'm
> trying
> > to sound black as soon as possible!
> >
> > That's my apology!  And if anyone wants to swap notes, talk to me off
> list,
> > I'm not drunk enough tonight to take this seriously.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> All the best,
> Rob Paparozzi
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