I guess it's ok. But honestly, most often this type of passing around solos bores the hell out of me. ---------- Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Soon, soon, soon Moon, moon, moon
Ah, I'm a HUGE Hendrix fan, and as a member of MBH forum for a while, I'm obviously also a HUGE fan of blues harp.
Red House is one of my favorite Hendrix songs (I much prefer Blues-Jimi to Psychedelic Jimi). I'm also a usually big fan of artists covering other artists stuff and "making it their own".
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Having said all that, the above just does nothing for me. If anything, it just confirms for me that some songs are just meant to be left alone by harp players.
To my ears........... not good.....not good at all.
Last Edited by Honkin On Bobo on Jun 19, 2013 8:25 AM
Edit: Jinx, I didn't think your comment was in poor taste as it was addressing the group as a whole. I get where you're coming from; it wasn't really any different than a typical jam format.
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I apologize. Don't get me wroing, Raines and crew sound sweet....I'm just tired of the formant is all. ---------- Sun, sun, sun Burn, burn, burn Soon, soon, soon Moon, moon, moon
Red House may be blues but it is a guitar song. My band Roadhouse Joe played that song but after a while I started shaking him off when Steve the guitar player nodded for me to solo. I preferred to just vamp behind him a bit.
Steve Mignano is one of the best blues guitarists I have ever heard; he now tours internationally with Cassie Taylor. In Red House I just let him do his thing. I thought the song "worked" better that way.
I've spent the day looking for Red House harp solos. I've listened to half a dozen, and I've come back to Annie's - it's the best I've been able to find, but I'm kind of concluding that I might skip it for my gig tomorrow... or copy something like the solo in Jason Ricci's "Blues Penitentiary".
Annie plays some tasty stuff but I think this tune requires some big technique for a harmonica player to keep pace with the guitar. I think of Annie as an advanced intermediate player. ----------
Harpaholic, to be fair, Adam's list only goes up to advanced intermediate! Still, with the definition he gives, I think I'd put her above that level. She doesn't rely on the same few riffs, and she knows how to use space.
It seems we may need to push Adam to define the top end of his scale a bit. Reading the levels, I'm somewhere between intermediate and advanced intermediate myself, and listening to Annie I know there should be a couple more levels (at least) between where I am now before I get up to where she is playing.
I agree with Joe, who cares what level she's at. My understanding of Adam's scale is that its a way to self-assess your level of progress on the instrument - geared toward technical ability. Definitely not a tool to rate pro players. Some of my favorite harpers would rate pretty low on that scale but play some damn fine music. How about Jimmy Reed as an example.
By the way, I've heard Annie play in person many times and she's an excellent player. Pro all the way.
