ZackPomerleau
836 posts
Mar 23, 2010
12:54 PM
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So, do any of you have any 'harmonica confessions'? Well, I got into harmonica after hearing Roadhouse Blues by The Doors and also Bob Dylan. I heard Paul Butterfield (whom I thought was called the Butterfly Blues Band at some point). I hated his first album. Thought he was HORRIBLE. Well, I listened again and I learned all the licks.
Here is the big one. I once couldn't stand jazz harmonica. I thought it sounded bad and stupid. Levy was amazing to me but it was whatever, and Michalek's tone was too sweet for me. Obviously I'm different now. An English teacher introduced me to lots of Jazz so I found out what I liked and then I used it to my advantage. Now I'm a huge fan of those guys.
I also didn't like the tone of overblows. Now I think they sound great because it is unique to the harmonica.
What about you guys and girls?
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toddlgreene
1080 posts
Mar 23, 2010
1:00 PM
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20 years ago, I sang in my first bar band, and they played 'What I like About You' by The Romantics. The song has a little harp solo in it. Everyone else had their hands full, so it was decided I would play the solo. So I did, initally in the wrong key and badly, but I stuck with the harp(not the band though-they were awful). As much as I hate that song, if it were not for it, I probably never would have touched a harmonica.
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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Blues13
15 posts
Mar 23, 2010
1:16 PM
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I started learning guitar more than a year ago. Wanted to learn to play like clapton but started to like is unplugged stuff better. Discovered Lightnin Hopkins, Robert Johnson and said wow that's what I want to play.
Never tought about learning the harmonica maybe because of all the mistery around it for the none initiated.
Some day on the 12bar Blues forum a guy started to talk about Satan and Adam. I whent to Adam's youtube page and started to listening to is music. bought my first harp last christmas just for fun still planing to buy an electric guitar and amp this spring. Last week whent to the music store bought more harps, guitar and amp are out of the picture. Will be buying more harp insted. Adam was the one who made me wanna learn
Martin
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eharp
572 posts
Mar 23, 2010
1:52 PM
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c'mon! these aint confessions.
these are more "how i started" or "this is why i am playing".
i was expecting more along the lines of- i dont play harp. i am here for a sociology thesis. or i embezzled $100,000 from my company.
gimme some true confessions!
zack- i know you got something better. you blew up the toilets at school or changed your SAT scores!
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toddlgreene
1081 posts
Mar 23, 2010
2:02 PM
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*I've been shot at 3 times-twice with a rifle, one with a shotgun. They were all warning shots for different reasons, otherwise I'd be dead. Lousiana marshes are rough places, I tell ya.
*I'm a Christian.
*Everytime I see one of Zack's home videos, I unsuccessfully resist the urge to tell him to clean his room. It's a parent thing.
*Buddha makes me laugh now. He didn't always.
*I believe BBQ Bob was a statistician in another life.
*I also truly believe Eharp would start a foodfight, but run away immediately after instigating it.
*I carry a FN Herstal FNP-40. I taught my wife how to shoot as well, and she's a better shot than me.
There, is that better?
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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Kyzer Sosa
227 posts
Mar 23, 2010
2:05 PM
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I was the second gunman on the grassy knoll...
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Kyzer's Travels
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rpoe
109 posts
Mar 23, 2010
2:29 PM
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Me and the Baptist preachers son burned down the church shop/garage throwing lit cigarettes into an old mattress.
Burning bunnies scream when they run out from under a flaming pier and beam building.......
Scarred me for life. Probably why I don't smoke or go to church. To many nightmares of burning bunnies bearing crosses storming my house.
How's that eharp? (:
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Rob
Rob's Tube
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eharp
574 posts
Mar 23, 2010
2:29 PM
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i knew with a name like kyzer sosa that i could count on you!
shot 3 times, todd!!
now we are on the correct path for what this topic is calling for.
the other 6 are very weak, todd.
i always stick around for the entire foodfight. or until the authorities show up.
let's start giving threads correct titles and avoid the shock value. i think everyone reads them all. even one titled...."very boring content" or "color of my socks".
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eharp
575 posts
Mar 23, 2010
2:33 PM
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well, satan. eeerr. i mean, rpoe. confession is good for the soul.
and just between you and me and the rest of the forum, if you did that without having those intentions, i gotta believe a true and just god would forgive you.
go to church and afterwards light one up. (sort of sounds like a penance, doesnt it?)
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blogward
113 posts
Mar 23, 2010
2:43 PM
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Here's one for you - went to see Sonny Terry and Brownie McGhee on their last(?) UK tour at the 100 club. And played along in the audience. I still cringe.
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harmonicanick
686 posts
Mar 23, 2010
3:50 PM
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1969/70 I was travelling in Morocco; there were many GI's who had gone awol from Nam and were hoping for anarmistice from Nixon, meanwhile they were getting stoned outta their heads in Marrakech etc
These guys were out on a limb, mosta of them been taking acid or heroin in Nam and were seriously out of it..
To cut a long hippy story short I ended up in a little west coastal village called Essouraira on the Atlantic coast of Africa.
Staying in a seedy hotel, and in the next room were a couple of yanks (i am english)
Tooting on my A harp, I heard a shout 'come and join us man' I did and they played 2 harps fantastic to me that night, I joined in and 3 of us were joined by vaious californian ladies later..happy days
They were travelling down through Africa hoping to get armistice sometime, because vietnam was too bad too take..
I hope those guys got their dream after their troubles
That village was were Hendrix stayed for a bit
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pharpo
228 posts
Mar 23, 2010
4:08 PM
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I am the Lizard King......I can do anything.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
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ZackPomerleau
837 posts
Mar 23, 2010
4:17 PM
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That's only cool when Jim says it :P
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OzarkRich
161 posts
Mar 23, 2010
4:35 PM
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In the early nineties my exposure to blues consisted of ZZ Top, SRV, Clapton, BB King and Johnny Winter. I had no concept of 12 bar blues or the blues scale, I only knew what sounded "bluesy" to me. I read a glowing review of Satan and Adam, and when I later got a chance to listen to their music my first reaction was disappointment; "this isn't blues, it's funk!".
Needless to say I've come a long ways in my understanding of what blues consists of and the many variations of the 12 bar blues in other musical styles; everything from bluegrass to the old batman theme song.
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Ozark Rich
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eharp
578 posts
Mar 23, 2010
4:36 PM
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perhaps that is pharpos confession- he is jim!
there are those persistent rumors that he isnt really dead, ya know.
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nacoran
1493 posts
Mar 23, 2010
4:51 PM
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One time, at band camp, I stuck my harmonica...
Oh wait, that was a movie.
I had a tuba at band camp!
(Actually, I've never been to band camp.)
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Nate
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OzarkRich
162 posts
Mar 23, 2010
5:07 PM
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@toddlgreene: I've never played "what I like about you" on harp but 20 years ago I took that album with me to the barber and told him to cut my hair just like the singer on the cover. Later came the "flock of seagulls" haircut, then the "asymmetrical haircut", Then the "fools tail", then "hair metal"...
I still like the song.
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Ozark Rich
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Delta Dirt
140 posts
Mar 23, 2010
5:19 PM
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I did 7 years in Parchman Farm. Entertained the fellow murderers,rapists and arsonists playing harp. It was a tough crowd.
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ZackPomerleau
838 posts
Mar 23, 2010
5:20 PM
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If he's Jim I want to know how he managed to stay hidden for so long.
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eharp
579 posts
Mar 23, 2010
5:22 PM
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shaved the beard?
groucho glasses?
plastic surgery to look like elvis?
sooo many possibilities.
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rpoe
114 posts
Mar 23, 2010
6:11 PM
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eharp: I feel better. I caught a bunny and bought him some smokes.
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Rob
Rob's Tube
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pharpo
229 posts
Mar 23, 2010
6:44 PM
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I'm a crawlin King snake
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
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Jim Rumbaugh
183 posts
Mar 23, 2010
6:50 PM
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My harmonica confessions
I hold the harp in my right hand.
I blow on the 3 hole.
I know it's wrong, I just can't stop.
I don't listen to Little Walter or any of the old "greats" in Adam's top 10.
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ZackPomerleau
840 posts
Mar 23, 2010
6:53 PM
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Okay, that was a John Lee Hooker song, nice try Jim! hahaha.
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pharpo
230 posts
Mar 23, 2010
7:00 PM
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http://s0.ilike.com/play#The+Doors:Crawling+King+Snake:131124:s1946373.9048753.12740719.0.2.8%2Cstd_f14d5284ad0842d589e915aa5b3b03a2
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
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pharpo
231 posts
Mar 23, 2010
7:04 PM
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Off L.A.Woman - just before he died.
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Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. - Charlie Parker
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oldwailer
1145 posts
Mar 23, 2010
7:45 PM
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Some days I still rather play guitar than harp (blush). And, once I blew on the 3 hole and I enjoyed it!
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phogi
355 posts
Mar 23, 2010
7:53 PM
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I got one. I suck.
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wallyns10
152 posts
Mar 24, 2010
1:24 AM
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In the beginning I once played played piano man and everyone said I was good because of it...and I believed them. Ignorance is bliss.
IMO Little Walter is really overrated.
I HATE twelve bar blues...HATE! I'm sick of them, it hurts to play.
I enjoy singing Italian and German opera and listening to Romantic (period) music, particularly Brahms, Bruckner, Wagner, Schubert, Mahler, Liszt, Scriabin, Tchaikovsky, and Rimsky-Korsakov. And then there is Stravinsky...not romantic but it doesn't matter, he's worth the mention. Also Renaissance music like TL de Victoria and Palestrina tickles my fancy.
I've been playing more piano than harp lately (probably because of the 12 bar thing), but am starting to shift back again.
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The Gloth
320 posts
Mar 24, 2010
1:54 AM
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I don't like Little Walter, and not a fan of Butterfield either. It's not their playing, it's their music I don't like.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
530 posts
Mar 24, 2010
2:51 AM
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I went to church and got saved and baptised while i was still addicted to meth prayed for God to get me off meth,didnt seem to be working,trial and tribulations was about to make me do something bad and hurt myself or someone So i tried what i used to mess around with in the Army witchcraft,And it worked allmost instantly within days the spirits screwing with me stoped and a little while later i got off meth,I think the getting clean was due to my 3 year old niece moving in for awhile,i quit then been clean 5 or 6 years but,whats weird is the crazy thoughts and weird spirits messing with ended almost imediatly,I got made at God and tore up my bible,And although i seldem practice Magik,anymore if i get mad i cuss God sometimes in public,And its become a excuse for stupid things and has become a pressure release valve but then i think hey thats stupid to be so upset there so much worse going on in the world or other people.It bothers me but then i get mad cause something goes wrong that dosnt make sence.Although the witchcraft i practiced was greyish white not black magic except those Damn evil spirts i threw every thing at them.Hows that for a confession unfortunalty its all true.I guess my harp confession would be about 14 months ago i never really gave harp much thought, I been playing guitar a few years and doing some home recording and was thinking about getting a eletric cause all i have is acoustic,well i was watching a movie with Robin williams playing a kid hustlin buskin dude i cant think of the name of the movie where this prodigy kid trying to find his parent,anyway Robin was a bum and was playing a harp in the ally st informatory blues or something like that and i thought wow thats what i need to add to my acoustic went out got one and recorded a song with it 2 hours later,what makes me mad is it aint that bad and a year later it seems ive improved but not alot from what i did the 1st song yea im better but damn i firgured i be a lot better not:)Also i never really listened to the harp until i got one it was allways the guitar,im like wow that song has harp in it now
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phogi
357 posts
Mar 24, 2010
4:39 AM
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Ok, here is some more:
*My improv skills are lack luster. Still stringing licks together. Granted, they are my own licks (mostly), but still...sigh.
*I like the blues but worry it alienates me from most people.
*I stole a tile from a tile shop when I was 6.
*I've broken two hearts in my lifetime.
*When I was 27 (three years ago)my wife had cancer that almost killed her.
*I don't do drugs.
*I battle demons in my sleep. I usually win. Not kidding.
*I'm not yet sure what direction I want to take with the harmonica. Getting my chops together playing blues.
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toddlgreene
1082 posts
Mar 24, 2010
4:57 AM
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*I spent the night in New Orleans' Central Lockup once-for slapping a stop sign. The charge was 'destruction of government property'. I don't recommend the grits there, nor do I recommend 'eyeballing' anyone.
*I play minor blues in 2nd postion on major-tuned harps. Sue me.
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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Nastyolddog
480 posts
Mar 24, 2010
5:38 AM
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I hate Tamborines,i hate guys with Tamborines on there feet keeping the Beat,
i won't speak to a person with a Tamborine,
i will ignore Persons in conversations that i know have held or Played a Tamborine,
the Tamborine isn't a Musical instrument,
i Bag my club members that own Tamborines,
i threaten them with death when they bring one out and harrase me with it,
I HATE FUCKING TAMBORINES!!!!
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toddlgreene
1084 posts
Mar 24, 2010
5:41 AM
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haha...I'll have Casey Casem play 'Mr.Tambourine Man' by Dylan for you, Nasty. 'A young man writes in, "Dear Casey"...'
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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XHarp
307 posts
Mar 24, 2010
5:54 AM
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Hobostubs,
Thats a hell of a confession.
Hooked on meth, found god, got baptized, prayed to get clean, didn't work, revisited witchcraft, got clean, played guitar, play harp.
That's sounds like the life of an old time bluesman. There is a book in there somewhere.
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"Keep it in your mouth" - XHarp
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Bluzdude46
545 posts
Mar 24, 2010
5:56 AM
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Oman where to begin.......... Done the Meth Addiction,intravenously yes I use to shoot an 1/8 oz of crank everyday. I have been clean of it for over 24 years. Did the Jail thing, Started off loving Folk Music, Bluegrass, Acoustic anything. Fronted two excellent bands that went the usual ways of members dropping for family schedules, work hassles and "artistic differences" Am currently fighting off the combination of Hepititus and Diabetes which has all but destroyed my liver (combination of the Meth and Booze) Am content where I am today and is trying to find the right people to start the next music project, god help me.
Oh and I drove the getaway car for Kyser from the Noll I'm not Old by years, I'm Old by Mileage
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The Original Downtown Philadelphia Fatman... Accept No substitutes!
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XHarp
308 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:07 AM
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Geez, Bluzdude46 you and hobo have a hell of a story.
And this is an excellent lyric...
"I'm not Old by years, I'm Old by Mileage"
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"Keep it in your mouth" - XHarp
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Hobostubs Ashlock
532 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:09 AM
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I feel for you Bluzdude46 I lost a good friend to hepatitis,2 years ago just found out my best friend has it he just found out,They both shot meth,But i never did i was around it for about 15 years but i started snorting it then the last 2 years i was on it i smoked it.Not that there is a good way to do meth,i just never would try the needle.but i do take a lot of hydrocodone from my car wreck been on that for 7 years,there bad on a liver but the VA says it looks allright for now
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Nastyolddog
482 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:12 AM
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Thanks Toddl-G
And by the way Bro's i Forgot i hate the Fucking Song
Hay Mister Tamborine Man,
While im at and i hate Muskrat Love..
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Hobostubs Ashlock
533 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:17 AM
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so do you hate those foot drums they make out of tamberines?Is it the noise they make or that you just wiggle it
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Nastyolddog
483 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:35 AM
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Yo Bro
so do you hate those foot drums they make out of tamberines?..YES
Is it the noise they make..YES
or that you just wiggle it..YES
i just hate the way they cut through every thing else
around them cutting the flow of music up in segments,
1&chop 2&chop 3&chop 4&chop
chop bloody chop chop,
and People with out rythm Playing the Bloody things while a Band is Playing,
i hate the fact i just had to look up the correct spelling for Tambourine,
i think I'm going to kill a Tambourine Player
very soon i need help!!!!
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oda
245 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:38 AM
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I've been meeting harp players here and there in an around Toronto (I met one in Belleville the other day) and they helped me realize that; I hate highly dislike amplified harp right now. I've just gotten fed up with the over-driven, turned up all the way, let's make some noise harp.
I prefer acoustic. Sweet, sweet acoustic.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
535 posts
Mar 24, 2010
6:44 AM
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i got kicked out of my 1st band last year i had only been playing the harp 3 months lasted a month with them the night befor they had a big gig at Cains Ballroom in tulsa there manager cuts me tells me im not ready which i wasnt really,but tells me why not play tamberine for them so you can still be in the band i wanted to kick his Ass.you know what i mean
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baldyak
13 posts
Mar 24, 2010
7:21 AM
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Hobostubs - August Rush is the name of the movie - interesting with some good guitar playing. I believe it was Kaki King, worth checking out if you're into guitar playing.
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Hobostubs Ashlock
537 posts
Mar 24, 2010
7:53 AM
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yes that was the movie i couldnt think of the name that the harp player that got me to buy a harp robin williams im serious,yea i love a guitar but ive messsed with one for about 16 or more years and never got anywhere i wished i thought i should be with it,i mean the level of playing be it the backyard or where ever i pick some each week,That movie got me to buy a harp so i could add to my simple songs,and 3 months later i got to play in a band for a month lol but i can play the harp and have more fun and i dont get nervous that much although i am a little more now a year later,im learning ,there;s a lot to learning the thing that i was unaware and nieve when i played with them.but not enough to shut me up :)
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Hobostubs Ashlock
538 posts
Mar 24, 2010
7:56 AM
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yes that was the movie robin williams is why i play harp
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isaacullah
870 posts
Mar 24, 2010
1:08 PM
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my confessions:
1) If you tell me that you like The Grateful Dead or Phish or Dave Matthews Band or [insert jam band here], I will stop caring about anything else you say about music. To me, your admitting to like these bands taints you, and your opinion about music cannot be trusted! It's not reasonable of me to say this, but that's the way it is. :)
2) I don't really like Jazz that doesn't have lyrics. To me it sounds like Muzak. Even if there is good harp in it, I just don't like it all that much
3) I was arrested once too, but they let me out.
4) I just got my first speeding ticket (at the age of 30). I am not going to pay it.
5) I think hip hop IS music, but I don't really like most hip hop.
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toddlgreene
1088 posts
Mar 24, 2010
1:29 PM
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*I cannot listen to free form jazz-it sends me into sensory overload.
*I tried durian in Singapore. Unless the idea of a slimy yellow fruit than smells like dumpster juice and tastes like a cross between a banana and an onion appeals to you, avoid it. Some of the markets there have a sidewalk that is isolated from everyone else. It's also illegal to carry it on the trains.
*I believe in ghosts. I've had two encounters.
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Todd L Greene. V.P.
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MP
103 posts
Mar 24, 2010
1:35 PM
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the tambourine(i had to think of the spelling too) is the chosen instrument? of the hare krishnas and girls who can't sing. not much to recomend it 'eh?
once i had to fire a tambourine playing stripper; the guitar players girlfriend. i didn't know she was even in the band. i just assumed she liked to get on stage and mess with the time and shake it up.. seems she was trying a career change and when i told her not to do that anymore she hated my guts and said" so you are firing me?" i found out later the guitar player was sharing his cut with her. in all fairness, i did drink a lot of gin so wierd stage invasions seemed pretty much normal occurences even if repeated week after week with big tits and tambourines.
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