Some of the best tone I've ever heard out of a harp happened one night at Manny's Car Wash in New York when Jimmy Rogers was in town with a harp player--smallish guy, balding, with a mustache--I'd never seen before. I've been wondering for years who he was. Turns out he's Scott Bradbury, somebody Joe L. and several others have mentioned once or twice here. I'd like to know more about him.
That night he was blowing through a solid state PA head and a closed-back Fender cabinet. That is NOT supposed to work. But the sound was an amazing squall. Crazy.
Here are a few clips I've found. The first does him justice; the others don't:
