These are my current favorites. Jasons is great for raw energy and learning scales, chords, split octaves, etc. and Chris's is great for melodic stuff and using the entire harp.
tmf714 I listened to Looking for Trouble and Tigerman on YouTube. Kim doesn't really play much on Looking for Trouble and half of that is just warble stuff. Tigerman is pretty interesting though....Telephone Blues is really good....I don't have a Ab harp though to play along.
I don't know how it's possible to jam to the first video without stopping in incredulity and/or depression at the passion and untouchability of Jason's blowing. Sometimes J seems so advanced that I can't adapt to it neurologically..... Some of my favorite solos by monsters (Jason, his mentor Pat Ramsey, and Sugar Blue) have been when they slowed down with the space between the notes hyperarticulating their depth of tone in a digestible way...... For what it's worth Lee Oscar once said to me- upon jamming with Mark Hummel- that Mark did some of the best 3rd he'd ever heard. Mark does a lot of 3rd on his recordings........ 3rd's definitely my favorite position and not just for minor keyed songs either. My best. d ---------- Myspace: dennis moriarty
3rd positition I like; Minnie the Moocher, Cab Calloway Locomotive Breath, Jethro Tull The Thrill is Gone, BB King Sister Morphine The Stones Miss You, The Stones Last Nite,George Smith Monkey on a limb, Steve Guyger A lot of Junior Wells stuff is 3rd
A good one is William Clarke`s Blowin` The Family Jewels. If the George Smith tune Monkey On A Limb is the one he recorded on the Arkansas Trap album that was originally issued on vinyl on the Deram label in the early 70`s, George is actually playing a key of C 64 chromatic in 1st position using the slide a lot so that it sounds like he`s in 3rd position ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte.
LW is screwing up because he`s trying to play the chromatic in 1st position without using the slide and here`s am area where George Smith has a far better handle on the chromatic than LW did. ---------- Sincerely, Barbeque Bob Maglinte Boston, MA http://www.barbequebob.com CD available at http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/bbmaglinte
Excuse me but did anyone listen to the end of that JR video? With the Bach (right?) quotes? (From 2:55) Too cool. Jason never ceases to amaze me. ---------- /Greg
