In re Bill Eborn's:
"Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:50:31 +0100
From: Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Genius? LOL
To: Ev630 <eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
'Elizabeth' wrote
"But who's done anything honestly new in the last 20 years?"
I must also respectfully disagree - I think there's lots of exciting
harmonica around at the moment. (snipped)
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WHOA!!!! Now hold ON a minute, Bill! Are you quoting THIS post? How
in
all tarnation does 'Ev' - a/k/a EvilTweed suddenly become 'Elizabeth'?
Sheesh. Did you somehow all this time think you were having a discussion
with me or the other Elizabeth?
EV630 is Not now and has never been 'Elizabeth' - for the record. HE's an
Aussie who signs his posts 'Drew', and I for one have polar opposite
positions with him on just about every issue discussed here.
Folks, please get your quotes correct and know to whom you're writing.
Now
a whole lot of other people have jumped on the same 'Elizabeth said this'
bandwagon. NO we didn't, so please correct your responses and direct them
at
Drew.
Not trying to usurp the listowner's role here, but It would also be the
easiest for everyone to decipher posts after several go-rounds/requoting
if
you put quote MARKS around someone else's comments when reposting them in
your own responses. I've seen far too many posts where one can't tell
who
said what because the writer simply put someone else's remarks down and
just
left a bit of a space, as if that's sufficient. It isn't. After several
repetitions the posts are so muddled the originator of the comments is
long
forgotten. Quotes solve such problems and are the fairest and easiest
way. If
I'm able to do it, anyone should, since I'm far from being computer
savvy.
In re this issue (since my name has been dragged into it), I most
certainly vehemently disagree with Ev630/EvilTweed/Drew in re HIS
contention that
no one's done 'anything honestly new in the last 20 years'.
My short response would be: 'Jason Ricci'. Proof? Blues aficionados have
dumped on him more than once and still can't seem to fully make up their
minds whether or not to include him in their midst because his approach
is SO
mind-bendingly innovative, different and unique they can't quite get
their
brains around it as
Blues, so they make up silly categories to nominate him in. See Rob
Paparozzi's recent post about JR&NB's nomination for best album for the
BMA
awards about this..'RockBlues' indeed!
A longer response would include LD Miller's harmonica beat-boxing together
with Brendan Power at last year's SPAH. Extremely new and innovative and
completely brilliant. Those'll do for starters. I'll save Chris Michalek
for another post ;)
Elizabeth
"Message: 6
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:00:22 +0300
From: Ev630 <eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Genius? LOL
To: Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Howard Levy, yes. Agree he was groundbreaking.
But who's done anything honestly new in the last 20 years?
As for the rest how are they doing anything innovative that they didn't
derive from other instruments or genres?
I'm not questioning their virtuosity, I just doubt we are discussing
genius
in these instances.
On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Bill <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
"nobody in the field of the harmonica currently whose breaking any new
ground"
Howard Levy? Gregoire Maret? Brendan Power? Sebastien Charlier? Vincent
Bucher? Olivier ker Ourio?
To name but a few - all breaking new ground I'd have thought, all really
distinctive....
Bill