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Players that you didn't get, but....
Players that you didn't get, but....
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Chris L
116 posts
May 18, 2016
7:34 PM
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When I think about music I didn't get at one time and later loved I am embarrassed to say there is a lot! Like Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts club Band (but I was only 12 at the time and wondered where the "Yeah, yeah's" went). Or a few years later, Janis Joplin. But when I bought a "Best of" CD twenty years after that, Janice just played non-stop on my car stereo for months....
When I think of harp players I absolutely did not get Little Walter. For years! SBWII and Walter Horton were much more accessible. I didn't like to listen to LW, so why learn his stuff? I didn't want to try a rocking cover of any of it. The only song I "sort of" liked was Blues with a Feeling, and never got past the head of that.
But when I finally tried learning Juke, I had to really listen to what was going on, and I started to "get" him. It helped to think about the period he worked in. Juke comes off as a big band swing-dance number put together with a four piece band and when I think of it as 1940s big band swing it actually works! The Five-Four and turn-around licks are so slick and non-intuitive they blow my mind! And what he does with just the 4 draw and 4 draw bend through about half the piece is an etude worthy of Mozart! someday I may just even listen for pleasure, but I have to say, now I have started to "get" Little Walter.
Anybody else have similar experiences?
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Killa_Hertz
1420 posts
May 19, 2016
3:31 AM
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Not with Walter, but i applaud your honesty. It's not easy to say "I dont get Little Walter" in a harp forum.
Im pretty sure i got Little Walter right away. I was getting a lil choked up watching that blue midnight video. Hearing how all those guys talked about his life and his passion.
But i do find myself listening more to SBW II and Horton. So i do know what you mean. The accoustic sounds seem more accessible than his big amped sound. Plus everyone"tries" to play like walter. It just gets tired.
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SuperBee
3738 posts
May 19, 2016
8:37 PM
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Jimmy Reed for me. didn't get it for decades. wasnt until i focussed on getting control of blow bends and listening to JR as an 'accessible' example that i really settled down enough to dig it. now i love it.
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