I didn't bring a camera or any sort of video or audio recording device to Hill Country Harmonica, so I'm especially eager to see and hear what y'all have brought back home. If you post videos to YouTube, if you post photo collections to PhotoBucket (for example), please let me/us know in this thread. I'm going to create a couple of new pages on the HCH website and will post videos, photos, and links to photo collections there.
Maybe it would be good to link the forum and HCH website in the video descriptions, so that the people that happen to stumble upon it via YT find their way here... :)
what a great time at HCH.Adam and Jeff did great job dancing till we fell over.The people were great if did not learn some you were not asking.The food was great. Had catfish for dinner for lunch and dinner again.
---------- Fred HARP (Harmonica Assn 'Round Philly)
You're free to post videos of Charlie and me; this post constitutes permission.
When Bill Perry and I were doing the blues grooves workshop, I asked him if he minded and he said No. So you should feel free to post any of his performances. If you got up and jammed with him, that's fair game.
To tell the truth, the policy that Jeff and I worked up was simply to avoid two things: 1) putting all of my lectures out there for free, since I'd like to retain at least minimal proprietary control over a few bits of wisdom that I might dispense in such contexts and whose value would be dissipated if broadcast in full on YouTube; and 2) embarrassing developing players, or registrants who might simply prefer not to be inadvertent stars of the flagrantly flubbed note on YouTube. It may sound silly, but I wanted the breakout sessions, or at least my breakout sessions, to be sacred space: no question too silly to be asked, no registrant's performance in danger of embarrassing anybody.
None of the performers specifically requested that WE request permission. And given the way things work on YouTube these days, I suspect that none of them really mind.
So here's what I think: when it comes to the artists, use your judgment. If you've got something special that showcases them to their advantage, please post it, if you wish. If Billy Branch or Johnny Sansone got drunk on hooch late at night and said something stupid, that should remain in your private collection. (And one hell of a good private collection it surely is. Please remember me in your will.)
As for the culminating 40-minute version of "Help Me": By that point, nobody who chose to get up was capable of being embarrassed. I'm willing to say, "I gave permission to post whatever you want from that." I'll take the heat for you, Harvey.
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Anyone can certainly post any performance videos of me, however I would like for people to refrain from posting any footage of my breakout session. As Mr. Gussow said earlier, I would like to retain any value that my lecture may hold in its current context. ---------- Brandon Bailey
Day #1 - Meeting at " The Crossroads" Brandon and Adam give us all a taste of what is to come.
---------- 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
Here is Terry "Harmonica" Bean @ HCH...sorry for the poor lighting....he was extremely backlight and my vid cam could not overcome it.
---------- 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
That video of Terry Bean reminds me of exactly why I wanted him to be a part of Hill Country Harmonica. He's lived the life, he tells great stories about it; what you see it what you get; and he can really play the hell out of that guitar in the deep Mississippi blues tradition. He's plucking, not picking, almost every note--lifting the strings and letting them snap back against the frets. Why his name isn't better known among those who consider themselves aficionados of the blues is beyond me. Maybe that will now change. This is the intensity that Honeyboy and Robert Johnson put out there back in the 1930s, but he's not copying them, he's not even thinking about them. Yet what he's playing comes from that source. That's part of the magic. This is Robert Pettways's "Catfish Blues," but with different words and an updated (but still deep country) feel. Honeyboy learned from Pettway.
Adam, I had the same thought the whole way from Holly Springs to the Memphis airport as I played his CD, "Hill Country Blues With the Big Sound" -- "Why haven't I heard of this guy." Like you, I hope that changes. I also really enjoyed chatting with him on Sat. night, hearing more about the bluesmen that came around his house to gamble with his daddy and play music. Anyway, I haven't been able to stop listening to the CD (actually a 2 CD set). Unfortunately, I don't see it on Amazon but here's the link for other of his music http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_sc_0_15?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=terry+harmonica+bean&sprefix=Terry+
I'll take the advice above and load some videos tomorrow (work internet much faster, heh, heh). I apologize in advance. I suck at fiming. My wife gets car sick watching my vidoes.
I really enjoyed the talking portion from the performers. Hopefully I captured this well enough for all to enjoy.
Terry is a gem. Bought a couple of CD's from him. Will post some pics as well. ---------- Rob
Note: if you are featured in any of the above photos and are uncomfortable with your image being posted here, just say the word and I'll either redact your image or take the photo down.
"Note: if you are featured in any of the above photos and are uncomfortable with your image being posted here, just say the word and I'll either redact your image or take the photo down"-the 7thDave
Hey, on the pic of the amps, what is that slanted one to the right that looks like a tweed monitor? I see my little Epi up there as well. ---------- Todd L Greene. V.P.
Nice pics and vids, you guys must have had a blast !
I'm very impressed by Terry "harmonica" Bean ; I love that style of blues, he really makes it his own with such a powerful playing and singing. Fantastic !
Just a quick question: Who was the white dude in the cowboy hat who played guitar and sang one song with Bill Perry on Sunday night? He was great. -Jordan
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