waltertore
215 posts
Mar 01, 2010
4:52 PM
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Hi All: The more I tune into these harp forums the better I get a feel of where the harp in the blues based musics is going. It has made me realize I am now an odd duck - flashless, space, acoustic, and slow alot of the times. I also realize I spent a lot of years playing the harp fast and as my hair gets more gray, the more I dig these slow, drawn out, flashless, songs. I figure I better keep posting them just in case a younger player might find them a bit different than the norm. Here are tonights on an Ab and 14 hole marine band in C. Walter
gotta get out of here
to myself
just me and my tv
gonna miss you momma
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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shanester
131 posts
Mar 01, 2010
10:09 PM
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That harp is rich in ambience!
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http://www.youtube.com/1shanester
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waltertore
217 posts
Mar 02, 2010
6:59 AM
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thanks shanester! My gigs are mainly cyberspacing these days. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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congaron
596 posts
Mar 02, 2010
8:33 AM
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Flash is in the eye of the beholder. You know this Walter. Good for you.
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waltertore
218 posts
Mar 02, 2010
9:25 AM
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thanks congaron. To me an artist does what is inside without wordly concerns because it has to come out. Just like on has to breathe, or die. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
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Honkin On Bobo
214 posts
Mar 02, 2010
9:41 AM
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Ain't about the flash Walter, it's about the heart, soul, groove......you got that in spades my man.
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waltertore
220 posts
Mar 02, 2010
9:55 AM
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Hi Honkin On Bobo: Thanks! I use to get depressed when I was younger after hearing my stuff on playback. It never compared to the technical wizzards of the day. But the audiences dug it and it felt good. I have learned people dig the soul note more than technical virtuosity. The blues was founded and still is IMO, based on the soul note, with technical virtuosity a distant second. I have gotten to liking being a simple player. I can express myself. That is all I ever wanted to be able to do, and the less complicated it is, the easier it is to flow and not think. I hate thinking when I play. Doing it for a living had me thinking alot more than I am wired for. Being committed to playing such and such amount of time, start at such and such an hour, stop at such and such an hour, be in such and such a city at such and such a date, dealing with crap sound systems, ...... There were too many such and suches attached to making a livng playing. Now I play when I want, for as long as I want, and there are no more such and suches! I am not dependent on the $ from music. This has allowed me to move to the level I strived for when making a living at music-free of outside pressures. Kind of a strange, but true thing. Now I wish I had more live gigs. But would I end up back in that such and such place? When I play live now, I put the cards on the table with my needs and it has worked out generally ok, but the number of gigs per year has gone from like 200 to 20. Walter
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walter tore's spontobeat - a real one man band and over 1 million spontaneously created songs and growing. I record about 300 full length cds a year.
2,000 of my songs
continuous streaming - 200 most current songs
my videos
Last Edited by on Mar 02, 2010 10:03 AM
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