FreeWilly
162 posts
Apr 12, 2012
2:00 AM
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Not only has JR started to put pictures of beautiful women on his youtube videos, his newest video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbCF44wk9gs&list=UUxVgtJO8QFgykIFEmt2dsjw&index=1&feature=plcp
- even seems to be taped in a closet! Now I don't know what to make of that (benevolent pun intended), but the new vid is very nice. Covers triplets, much like his "how to play fast" videos, but worth checking out none the less I'd say!
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Kingley
1982 posts
Apr 12, 2012
2:06 AM
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I'm not sure how to take your post. So all I'll say is that the only thing interests me about Jason, is his playing. I couldn't care less what his persausion is. That's his business and nobody else's.
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Stevelegh
470 posts
Apr 12, 2012
3:00 AM
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The female form is a beautiful thing and a beautiful female is even better. Who doesn't want to see that?
The video is great too and is going to be really helpful for me. Thanks for posting it up.
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Jim Rumbaugh
712 posts
Apr 12, 2012
5:30 AM
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hmmm
after watching his 13 minute lesson I:
saw no women
saw no closet
learned a LOT about triplets
maybe I need to watch again for women & closets ??? :)
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FreeWilly
164 posts
Apr 12, 2012
5:35 AM
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@Jim
Check JR's channel, and you'll see them women ;)
I thought it was a closet because of the Cornflake-boxes btw. Isn't it? Perhaps Mooncat can clarify? And in the process enlighten us on where to get them pictures as well! I'd be much obliged :)
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shadoe42
151 posts
Apr 12, 2012
7:18 AM
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given just a basic glance the woman in question appears to be his current lady fair. Good on him.
Why is that a big deal?
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groyster1
1855 posts
Apr 12, 2012
7:53 AM
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the only judgement I will pass on jason is that he is an incredible harp player
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SuperBee
214 posts
Apr 12, 2012
3:08 PM
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Funny what you see. I noticed david Barrett's recent book "rock harmonica" on the shelf. But I probably wouldn't have seen that if this thread hadn't intrigued me.
To me it just looked like Someone's utility room, storage space, informal "office". I only went looking for the women, learnt some about Jason's playing and saw a book. Realised how intrusively nosey I can be. Felt a bit ashamed. Time to get up. Situation normal.
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Moon Cat
55 posts
Apr 13, 2012
2:38 AM
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Hey guys thanks for watching the video and sorry about the noise in it half way through. The closet is my room and I have to keep a lot of my food there unfortunately. The Dave Barrett book is one I have a chapter I wrote in it which I think in hindsight is interesting but not very helpful. Shadoe was right. The woman is Claire Condon and I am very deeply in love with her. I cant help putting her pics as thumbnails because its so great to see her, they look better than my pictures and more than likely will get the vids some hits. I was not at all offended by the closet pun/ reverse closet inference I find it very playful and in good fun.There should be quite a few more videos to come. Thanks to Adam and everyone here for all the support. Meow.
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Dr H
1 post
Apr 23, 2012
4:52 AM
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Finding the significant other is about the person inside, not what's between the legs. I'm very happy for you two, and it's awesome to see you two together. So if you ask me, Jason is in no closet - on the contrary, he has taken the courage to take an even broader look at our wonderful universe. Peace.
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rbeetsme
742 posts
Apr 23, 2012
4:59 AM
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Jason, so pleased to hear you are doing well. Missed you at the Bean 2 years ago, I hope John can find a way to bring you back. Hill Country is going to be killer this year, wish I could swing it but I'm sure all ya'll are going to have a blast. Cheers.
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atty1chgo
314 posts
Apr 23, 2012
5:59 AM
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@ freewilly:
I am unabashedly heterosexual. No closets (in the context of gay people hiding, for whatever reason, their sexuality from the public) here. But I find the title and content of your post offensive to me. And the reason why is two-fold. One, what in hell difference do Jason's interpersonal relationships have to do with the context of this blog and the subject matter that is the basis for our gathering? And second, everyone has their own "closets" for different matters in their life's journey, even you I am sure. But we aren't inquiring about yours. I would respectfully ask you to apply for employment at The Globe or at The National Enquirer if your curiosity needs a public airing.
Sorry to go negative, folks, But I had to state my views. I know Jason said that it doesn't bother him, but it bothered me. Let us revel in, and enjoy, this man's unbelieveable talent with the harmonica, and dispense with the petty bullshit.
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FreeWilly
190 posts
Apr 23, 2012
7:07 AM
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Let me get this straight (no pun intended of course, I wouldn't dare in fear of offending some of the readers of this forum, who turn out to be quite easily offended). I offended you because, first of all "what in hell difference do interpersonal relationships have to do with the context of this blog?" I don't understand that sentence at all. Can you please clarify the relation between your question regarding interpersonal relationships and their relation to music (one could think of many..) and your being offended? And the second reason of your being offended is "that everybody has closets". I don't understand that either. One can't make a joke about them because everybody has them? Wouldn't that make it a good topic?
Now it could be my english. I am, after all, from Holland (you know, that silly little country that was the first to let gay people marry one another because we don't make a deal about homosexuality).
I knew neoliberalism brings about a very grand fear of people being in each other's way. It happens when you believe that individual happiness is what gives our lives meaning. But I really didn't know it was this bad. And I work in another paradigm. Trying to bond with people, sharing jokes, that sort of thing. If you want to call that petty bullshit, be my guest. I slightly pity you for it though. But that's all good energy for the needy.
My original post was a small joke. I figured Jason (showing himself to be funny and extravert all the time in vid's) could have a laugh with it, and I'm happy he did (I almost got scared after some of the initial reactions that he would be offended). After that, I hoped this thread would die out fast, so that people couldn't be offended no more.
Let's hope it will die out after this. I seriously don't want to offend people.
PS:
Jason, if your reading: that's one hell of a catch! I'm happy for you.
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Conflictz
12 posts
Apr 23, 2012
7:41 AM
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no comment
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atty1chgo
315 posts
Apr 23, 2012
8:12 AM
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@ free willy - I find it amusing that you cannot understand what I wrote. My statement stands as written.
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Buzadero
964 posts
Apr 23, 2012
10:08 AM
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Ah yes. The JR saga continues.
Gay? Straight? Black? Short?
Who gives a fuck (sorry, profanity for the sake of emphasis, color me crude)?
Saint Patrick's Day of this year, I had a date with the dear boy. Spent several hours in a Starbucks.
Charming, as always. I'm smitten. The beauty of it is that my wife approves.....
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
894 posts
Apr 23, 2012
1:00 PM
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Mooncat, I am glad to see you happy and healthy.
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Buzadero
965 posts
Apr 23, 2012
1:02 PM
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"Mooncat, I am glad to see you happy and healthy."
Preach on, Brother Dave, preach on.....
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nacoran
5590 posts
Apr 23, 2012
1:32 PM
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Jason plays a mean harmonica.
Jokes are about seeing where that line is. Jimmy Carr has a great skit where he tells a series of progressively more offensive jokes and asks the audience to let him know when he's crossed the line. The thing is, each joke, as he moved down the line lost a few crowd members until the whole crowd was gone. The whole thing was a Deconstructionist bit about where that line was and how we get offended.
When I read the title of this thread I clicked on it right away to make sure it wasn't across the line. It was somewhere right around that line. It seemed it was trying to laugh with Jason, not at him. Jason seems to have laughed with it.
Here is the thing though. It's perfectly valid to be offended by this, although you don't have to be. It's appropriate to say you are offended. When you do though, remember to try to look at what the other person was trying to say. Do you think they meant to offend? If not, try to take that into account when speak up.
Freewilly, I was, let's say, uncomfortable, about the thread, not so much because of where it fell on the line, but because I was afraid where other people's line would be. I didn't see any attempt at malice or any hate, in fact, I saw an attempt to give a supportive shout out. I read it as an attempt to laugh with, not at. Laughing with someone, you are right, is a way to build community. It's always about where that line is. I probably wouldn't have posted that headline. That's just me.
atty1chgo, I was also uncomfortable with the way you responded. It's important to let people know what is okay and what isn't. That's how society comes to consensus on what the rules are. Your last line about petty bullshit though was at least a foot foul.
We've got a thread full of people who all love Jason's music and all believe he should follow his heart where it leads him arguing about whether a joke crossed a line that everyone agrees wasn't an attempt to be mean (including Jason). Well, at least we know the level of the room. We have Jimmy Carr'd it and the joke makes some of us laugh, some of us worried, and some of us offended. If we can all agree that no one was trying to cause offense and that everyone here had good intentions the rest is just semantics.
Let's just let it drop, but if you insist on discussing it, let's keep it civil on all sides here.
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
895 posts
Apr 23, 2012
2:03 PM
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Even if he stopped playing in public, I would think just as much of him. We were talking about this when he first went to California, I was saying hey, there's a lot of great players out there who don't do this for a living. If you gotta stay off the road to be healthy, do it, start a harp school, be a veterinarian and find a cure for ferret fatigue or something. When I hear he's playing out, hanging with his lady, and looking healthy, it makes be incredibly happy. I'd be just as happy if he were healthy and curing dog narcolepsy.
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David
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"Also, drinking homemade beer." - David Payne
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ElkRiverHarmonicas
896 posts
Apr 23, 2012
7:28 PM
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I'm sure he means what he said about not being offended. When you're in his position or even mine, you cant get excited about bullshit you read on the Internet. Reminds me of a story: I remember when Jason was judging the Elk River Championship the first year,this dude started ripping on me because he was mad he had to pay $4 to get in the gate...I'd lost a lot of money in that first Elk River contest- but I gave him $4 back from his $10 entry fee, to get him to shut the hell up plus a lifetime ban from any contest I ran... If I had one more contestant (only two others entered), he'd been run off then.
This guy looks at Jason and asks me "where the hell did you find this piece of work? he looks like he's never played harmonica in his life and he's judging this contest!" looks at Jason, "Tell me, boy, have you even played harmonica before?"
Jason peers and squints real obviously at the dude's local harmonica club shirt (it's a city in Ohio that has same name as town in Georgia).
He says, calmly, "My name is Jason Ricci. (peers at the dude's shirt again)
If your harmonica club in GEORGIA were any good, you would have heard of me." i could have died laughing.
we had a big laugh about it later.
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David
Elk River Harmonicas
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walterharp
871 posts
Apr 23, 2012
8:11 PM
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talking about double meanings, assumptions and jokes, how about jason cross dressing, playing floozy and playing on the assumption women cannot play harp, then getting up and doing what he does? that was a funny double entendre crossing a line, but he was the one making fun of himself in a way, so maybe that is different
never a dull moment around Ricci, and when he plays harp, you know it is going to be worth sticking around for what he has to say there! heart on the sleeve playing, heart on the sleeve in life.. few can say they live or play it that way.
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Moon Cat
60 posts
Apr 23, 2012
8:17 PM
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I cant believe I said that to that Georgie dude! I kinda suck....Thats funny Ive had a load of laughs reading this thread and theres a ton of great points by everyone.
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Willspear
160 posts
Apr 23, 2012
10:15 PM
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getting worked up over the internet is so not worth it.
Its so much easier to always look for humor in anything on the internet
harmonica clubs in "georgia" are hard core, didn't you know that? I mean seriously if you guys knew anything about harmonica you'd know how awesome their club is.
also being a musician of any kind means that you are constantly making a fool of yourself. Part of being a great musician is being comfortable making an ass of yourself for your amusement and the amusement of others. more to it than that but that is a huge part of performing.
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nacoran
5591 posts
Apr 23, 2012
11:37 PM
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That reminds me of a story my grandfather used to tell me. A world chess champion was riding on a train, sitting in dining car with a chessboard.
A man walked up to him and asked him if he would like a game. The chess champion said 'Sure, I'll handycap a queen.'
The man was quite offended. He said, 'You don't even know me, how do you know you can handycap me a queen.'
Unfazed the champion looked up at the chap and said, 'If I couldn't afford to handycap you a queen I would know who you are.'
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Libertad
71 posts
Apr 23, 2012
11:39 PM
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harmonica clubs in "georgia" are hard core, didn't you know that? I mean seriously if you guys knew anything about harmonica you'd know how awesome their club is.
Nice one!
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