Gwood420
192 posts
May 23, 2010
9:48 PM
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sooooooo...... you dont like it Nasty? :)
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kudzurunner
1485 posts
May 24, 2010
10:20 AM
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@Nasty: Instead of pissing on yourself repeatedly, and overusing the word "crap," maybe you should offer an idea or two.
In fact, let me put that a little more bluntly: please reread the forum creed. All that touchy-feely stuff about the golden rule, treating each other civilly, assuming the best of each other, not impugning the intelligence of your fellow board members, etc.? I really mean that stuff. Nobody is exempt. I understand that in the Wild West, some people took names like Filthy McNasty, and that's just fine. This isn't the Wild West, but if I'm forced to play Texas Ranger, I know how to and the vigor and immediacy with which I'm prepared to do that will surprise you.
Please tone it down a little. Thanks.
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Kyzer Sosa
578 posts
May 24, 2010
10:38 AM
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all things in perspective.... the audience probably didnt consist of a bunch of fellow blues harmonica players. could these guys work thru a 12 bar? maybe... does bad news sound better on the album cut or live? duh...
most importantly, did they rock the house that night? and are they opening the eyes of many potential young harp hopefuls? a resounding yes...
methinks some here are afraid...
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isaacullah
964 posts
May 24, 2010
10:55 AM
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Ditto to Kyzer, yo. Respect.
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Nastyolddog
786 posts
May 24, 2010
3:16 PM
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Adam telling a Harp player to tone it down
Hay i worked hard on my tone:)
Please tone it down a little. Thanks
Yup do my best,
advise for these guys
"Learn how to tongue block. Point Blank no Barking around It'll give you a broader range of sounds to choose from."
Adam im still willing to invite you in my house
i would like to hear your very first Album,
and your all time Favorite the one where you just finished and said Bark yeh thats the Deal:)
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walterharp
346 posts
May 24, 2010
5:13 PM
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hey, bad news has the girls draped over him in videos... i never get that no matter how good i play, so he must be doing something right.
i suspect it is not a real head cutting competition, bad news is a guest on the program, probably to bring up the pop music/ popular quotient. the other guy is more of a regular according to one of the posts. he was probably told go out there and play, but in no way make the guest look bad.
bad news is out there spreading the word that harmonica is cool, what is not to like about that?
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sgsax
37 posts
May 24, 2010
6:19 PM
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I didn't watch this particular video, but I did watch a couple others of his over the weekend. I'm no hip-hop fan, but I was impressed with how well he was able to play musically within the genre. Can the same be said about Bob Dylan or Mick Jagger? The musical qualities of hip-hop as a genre aside, I thought what he played worked very nicely, and he had a decent tone to boot. I found myself digging the groove, much against my better musical sensibilities.
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Joe_L
284 posts
May 24, 2010
6:44 PM
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I always enjoyed Frank Frost's music. That includes his harp playing. His playing may not be anything cutting edge, but he made some great music with the skills he had at his disposal.
A lot of people have proven that you don't have to be a great harp player to make great music.
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kudzurunner
1486 posts
May 24, 2010
7:13 PM
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@Nasty: Thank you. My very first harp album was MISSISSIPPI MANDOLIN by Johnny Young, with Paul Oscher on harp. Now strictly speaking it wasn't the first. The first was FULL HOUSE by the J. Geils Band, which I purchased some time during the fall term of my senior year in high school, shortly before I went out and bought my first harmonica. Everybody was listening to it and I decided to learn how to play "Whammer Jammer." I wanted to impress girls. By Christmas time I'd actually learned to play a little bit. The drama teacher at my high school, Lynn Feller, had a party at her house. I went. Her husband was a "musician," a word which had real power to this 16-year old wannabe. There was a sort of informal jam session at the party. I blew some harp. I'm sure I wanted to be necking with anything female, but instead I developed a very slight boy-crush on her hubby as he strummed his electric guitar and played "blues." Not terribly deep stuff, but I couldn't tell that and he was the first real musician I'd ever jammed with.
MISSISSIPPI MANDOLIN was in his stack of records. He played it. I was hooked. It had some very simply harmonica playing--much, much simpler than "Whammer Jammer." I asked him if I could borrow it. He said, "Take it."
I took it and played the hell out of it. I put it on every morning when I woke up and every afternoon when I came home from school. I loved Johnny Young's blustery voice and I loved those simple but deep and direct harp lines.
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groyster1
74 posts
May 25, 2010
8:21 AM
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hello todd
I can say that you have been helpful to me many times and you are not a snob in any form or fashion there is a vast multitude of opinions in this forum and I respect them all and will not resort to name calling
george royster
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bigd
139 posts
May 25, 2010
9:03 AM
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Oops: Wrong forum post....Jeeez!
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kingrobot
26 posts
May 25, 2010
9:04 AM
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Favorite parts of this video:
-Awesome hats that are not too big or too small.
-The guy on the lower left in the red Christmas sweater playing the (finger) organ.
Everybody has their own style, kind of a mix of what you put out there and how others interpret you.
I'm just glad there's some more mainstream harmonica out there. Maybe it's a step toward stocking the music stores with more harps, making it easier for me to do something different with the instrument.
I'm just lucky to not play the dulcimer or the ocarina. Those folks are catty. If that gets me banned, ok. But i refuse to sift through another thread with the natural gourd people bashing the plastic people for not keeping it real.
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isaacullah
969 posts
May 25, 2010
9:38 AM
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kingrobot: That is TOO funny! :0
However, everyone knows that natural gourds kick the crap outta plastic any day. I personally grow my own gourds in a temperature-controlled, humidity-regulated, artificially lit, subterranean growing room, using genetically modified heirloom seeds I stole from a secret government facility. I cure them using a special process that takes 5 years (and which involves virgins and chicken blood. I can't say any more.), and then I carefully allow my team of trained bark beatles (sic) to bore the holes for me. Then I seal it in liquid resin distilled from the linen of 3rd millennium mummies (royal mummies,of course) from lower Egypt (screw those upper Egyption mummies!), and hand polish them using the down from endangered Peruvian Red-backed Hummingbird chicks.
The process takes a while, but ANYONE can plainly see that it is well worth it. ;)
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nacoran
1938 posts
May 25, 2010
10:18 AM
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Kingo, I've read exactly one ocarina thread, and they clearly said plastic was better, at least than ceramic, because if you drop the ceramic ones they break.
BigD, I was just reading that thread. I'm glad it's not just me who has a bunch open at once.
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