naptown jack
17 posts
Sep 11, 2013
12:32 PM
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When I first joined this forum I responded to a post about playing while driving, saying that it's OK while stuck in traffic or especially at a railroad crossing but maybe not on the freeway at rush hour. Since I'm usually armed and dangerous, harp-wise, I find myself whipping it out, so to speak, all the time. I have found that parking garages, tiled restrooms, the double-doored entrances to a lot of buildings( especially my credit union) and concrete tunnels, usually for walkways are all great for reverb and tone. My favorite weird place, however, is office building stairwells. Go into one and give it a try. What's extra special is when someone hears you on another floor and opens the door and asks "What the Hell?" Then quietly slip out and take the elevator. Fuckers'll think their buidins's enchanted. Any thoughts?
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Honkin On Bobo
1144 posts
Sep 11, 2013
12:35 PM
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Note to naptown: see the thread entitled Time on The toilet.
On second thought, don't......just don't............don't go there.
Last Edited by Honkin On Bobo on Sep 11, 2013 12:39 PM
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rbeetsme
1352 posts
Sep 11, 2013
12:52 PM
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Naptown, Indianapolis used to be called Naptown. Are you from Indy?
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STME58
540 posts
Sep 11, 2013
7:07 PM
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I will second you on stairwells for acoustics. My favorite stairwell is huge 3 story in a subway station in Shenzhen. The reverberation time is about 5 seconds.
The first time I played there I thought the guard was going to ask me to leave but he asked me to play more!
I have been practicing in the mornings in a mall where the acoustics of one of the hall way is so live they keep the Musak speakers off. I have had a couple of people tell me they thought I was the sound system and were surprised to hear blues.
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BronzeWailer
1135 posts
Sep 11, 2013
7:28 PM
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Stuck in Buenos Aires airport a couple years back due to volcanic eruption. Played in a quiet corner. Cleaning personnel seemed to enjoy it.
Also played in a cell at Sydney Police & Justice Museum.
BronzeWailer's YouTube
Last Edited by BronzeWailer on Sep 11, 2013 7:32 PM
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kudzurunner
4249 posts
Sep 11, 2013
8:20 PM
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Agree with you, Naptown. I use a Boss DD3 digital delay pedal in large part because I got hooked, many years ago (and with periodic recharges) on the stairwell / parking garage sound. Go for about 400 milliseconds. One-chim. (The first half of one-chimpanzee)
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JInx
532 posts
Sep 11, 2013
9:05 PM
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not a weird place, but...
on 42nd street, next to grand central station, there is a guy who shakes a can of change and chants "help feed the homeless, help feed the homeless" . He's got solid rhythm with a nice shuffle do to the change going up and landing again in his can. I often jam some riffs to his beat. A weird jam, but it works.
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Sun, sun, sun
Burn, burn, burn
Soon, soon, soon
Moon, moon, moon
Last Edited by JInx on Sep 11, 2013 9:06 PM
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STME58
541 posts
Sep 11, 2013
9:59 PM
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When I have a layover at SFO I like to sit on the benches in the passageway between the domestic and international terminals and play. The acoustics are not great but many of the people walking by seem to appreciate it.
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naptown jack
18 posts
Sep 12, 2013
6:05 AM
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Whie not as sleepy as it once was INDIANOPLACE will always be Naptown for a lot of us. Home to Leroy Carr and Scrapper Blackwell, last home of Yank Rachel, and home for a small army of great jazzmen, most notably Wes Montgomery. I've lived here most my life ( if you want to call this livin') and have played with a number of jug, blues , rock, C&W,and jazz bands since the late '60's. The longest stretch was with a remarkably eclectic bunch of misfits called the Strugglers from about '71 to '86. I've done studio stuff and was once asked to play with the symphony (some pops stuff), but it didn't work out. It was OK 'cause I didn't want to join the union or rent a tux, and they would'nt let me put a beer on my amp. The Slippery Noodle is a great Blues venue where I got to meet, and help load their gear, Charley Musslewhite and William Clarke and had my picture took with Junior wells at the bar. Visit anytime!
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nacoran
7125 posts
Sep 12, 2013
11:16 AM
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There is a spot between my apartment building and the next that has great outdoor acoustics, or it did before they put in the AC units there.
The laundry room works good. I haven't tried the shower.
I'm thinking, if Boris can get a TV commercial where he plays with vacuum cleaners pulling on his hair in a transit station, maybe I can get one for a bowling ball cleaner or turtle wax?
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garry
433 posts
Sep 13, 2013
6:55 PM
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On vacation this summer, we visited the gardens at Villa Ruolo. There was this chapel-like building, big, high ceilings, completely empty: no furniture or decoration of any kind, just white stone walls. Played a little when nobody was around; it sounded *amazing*.
Any of the many actual churches we visited would probably have sounded amazing, but i was unwilling to risk eternal damnation, so the harp stayed in my pocket.
pity.
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garry
435 posts
Sep 13, 2013
7:50 PM
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A year or so ago, as part of a Sunday service, I played in a UU church outside of Philadelphia. This was an old stone building with great sound. The video doesn't do it justice, but here it is:
Around 0:35 I realized my amp was on wrong setting, so I switch on the Chorus+Compression. The change in sound is dramatic.
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Last Edited by garry on Sep 13, 2013 7:54 PM
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nacoran
7134 posts
Sep 13, 2013
8:58 PM
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A440, have you ever seen the old Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn movie 'Charade'. (It's sometimes called the greatest Hitchcock movie Hitchcock didn't make). There is a great acoustic scene where they are on a party barge going along the river. As it goes under the bridges and back out through the bridges the whole nature of the sound changes back and forth. It's a great scene. (Great movie too.)
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naptown jack
19 posts
Sep 16, 2013
12:24 PM
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I saw an old documentary called "Playin' That Thing' about al kinds of harmonica, blues jazz classical, and one scene featured a bridge in London,maybe, with an army of Mayall wannabes wailin' away. Probly didn't know Paris had bridges. I'm wif timeistight on this one.
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