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Harmonica - Why, Where, When and What?
Harmonica - Why, Where, When and What?
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rbeetsme
1240 posts
May 29, 2013
7:26 PM
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My cousin could play "when the Saints go Marching" in on harp. I figured, if my knucklehead cousin could learn to play, maybe I'd try and pick up a second instrument. My first instrument was Jews Harp. (I now also play ukulele, see a trend here? I must love to suffer. Player of much maligned instruments) Anyway, his only advise was to practice far far away. I did. When I was 19 a friend and I took a roadtrip to Memphis. Stayed with a guy who let us bunk down at his house in the inner city. I remember killing time one afternoon by laying on the bed trying to bend notes. I got it, or at least the beginnings. I learned to bend and play 2nd position in Memphis! 41 years later, I still practice far far away. So I learned to bend notes when Adam Gussow was maybe 2 years old? Yikes!
Last Edited by rbeetsme on May 29, 2013 7:30 PM
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bloozefish
98 posts
May 30, 2013
11:47 AM
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rbeets, when were you in Memphis? We 'prolly ran into each other at Burkle's bakery or Peanuts Pub, where Furry Lewis used to play every Thursday night. Ah, memories of midtown Memphis!
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Rubes
696 posts
May 30, 2013
2:23 PM
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Why?...( & where )oops yes where.....DOWNUNDER......was given a Swan tremolo at about age four at Xmas, the melodies just started pouring forth! When........would've been 69-70...... And what,.......well always the melody, but SBWII got me into them BLUES man ( in my late teens.......early 80s ) now I want it all!!!!!
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Last Edited by Rubes on May 30, 2013 2:31 PM
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SuperBee
1168 posts
May 30, 2013
6:59 PM
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Rubes...SBWII?...I know I mentioned that Mayall gig, but apart from that, I had a wild and crazy unorthodox impulse and in 81 bought a record with a picture of a harmonica and a bowler hat on the cover...it was kinda weird but I learned to love it...no one I knew could understand what I thought was good about this record...maybe I was trying to be 'different'...anyway, the decision to buy that record continues to effect my life, what are we, 30+ years on..that's the record with the harmonica sound which really intrigued me...definitely on my desert island disc list, maybe at the top
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hooktool
23 posts
May 30, 2013
8:10 PM
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MichaelMc-what is your band's name and are you playing around town? I live in Nashville. We like to hear live music.
John
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