Re: [Harp-L] Overblowing all done?

[Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>]

No way! Overblowing is here to stay. If you think people won't try to follow
in the footsteps of Howard Levy, Christ Michalek, and all of the modern
greats I do believe you are wrong. They are just notes, it's not like they
are voodoo. Maybe someday people will actually understand that.

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Nicholas Lovett
<lovett.nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> They've played sweet licks.  And they've played them faster...and faster.
>  They've played, and played and played, till one became overstimulated.  But
> I have to wonder, are they overblown?  Will the style of overblowing become
> a footnote on harmonica history, like the double tapping of EVH?  Within six
> months, nearly every metal guitar player had successfully mimicked the style
> of Eddie Van Halen.  Little Walter just won a posthumous Grammy Award more
> than forty years after his death, and his style continues to dominate the
> blues harmonica.  Mimics of overblowers, mixed into the blues scale, I think
> are dying out.  To stay out of the music industry,(where trends rip apart
> young men like a meat grinder) I got the advice to stay ahead of it...or
> behind it.  I am happy to say that my mix of my first EP "Nick Lovett's
> Shuffle" is finished.  A website, and official albums will be available
> ASAP.  For my first record I have assembled a crack team of the top
>  blues musicians in New England. (And Worldwide)  On guitar I have Paul
> Size, of the Red Devils, Sugar Ray and the Blue Tones, Johhny Moeller/Hoy
> and Mick Jagger.  On bass and second guitar, Matthew Stubbs, of his own
> great band, Charlie Musselwhite, John Nemeth, Junior Watson and Janiva
> Magness.  Rounding out, on the kit, is Chris Anzalone, one of the top
> drummers around.  I'll spare you the laundry list.  I haven't tried to
> re-invent the wheel, merely covered classics by Little Walter(Aww Baby)
> Jimmy Rogers(Act Like You Love Me) and Sonny Boy Williamson II(Born Blind).
>  I also have an original slow blues, and the title track, an Excello style
> instrumental, modeled after the Jerry McCain groove (She's Tuff) I will
> follow with coming information, and hope that we can all put the sixteenth
> notes behind us. I hope that by being 23 and playing this stuff as directed
> to me by my record collection, and my teacher Annie Raines, I am able to do
> something
>  innovative.  I sincerely hope you all give my music a chance.
>
> Thank You Harp-L in Advance,
> Nick Lovett
> Tyngsboro, Massachusetts
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