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wolfkristiansen
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Jun 15, 2010
2:39 PM
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This is my first post to Modern Blues Harmonica/Dirty- South Blues Harp Forum. Thank you, Kudzurunner, for starting this forum. I belong to, and post to, other forums once in a while-- almost all are about blues and/or harmonica. This one's about both. I like that. I think I've found a home here, and intend to hang out.
I post to harp-l, but usually apologize for talking about blues harmonica, or at least acknowledge that not all share my passion for blues. You harp-l members know there's a wide range of harmonica styles and instruments discussed in that forum, including folk, jazz, Irish music etc.; diatonic, chromatic, chord harmonicas, etc. I love all music, but am partial to blues.
For this forum: I got blues in me, I got harmonica in me, I'll work on "modern". Two out of three ain't bad.
Here's a true story I posted to harp-l a few years back. I'm going to break forum etiquette and post it here, too. You might get a kick out of it. Perhaps you have similar stories, I'd love to hear them.
Anyways...
A long time ago, I joined my first blues band. I was the harmonica player. Our very first gig was backing up strippers in a seedy little night club on Granville Street in Vancouver, B.C. Six nights a week.
Most of us drank our weekly wages by way of the ubiquitous bar tab offered by club owners back then.
After a week of playing, I got to be (platonic) friends with the strippers. We were all in the entertainment business, one way or another.
The youngest one came up to me one night. She pointed to my Shure ball microphone and said (this is the absolute truth),
"I just love how you play that thing, what do you do, squeeze it?"
I resisted the urge to fall down laughing. I could hear the sincerity in her voice and see it in her eyes. Instead, I told her that all the wonderful sound she was hearing came from this small 4 inch object hidden in my hands: a harmonica.
She had never seen one, or, apparently, heard one. Her name was Angie. Angie are you still out there?
...Anybody else got gig stories they'd like to share?
Before I leave, I want to let everyone know I've been reading this forum off and on since it started, and have seen a worrisome turn to the tone of the posts. I watched blues-l self destruct when the posts and rejoinders and counter-rejoinders turned nasty and hateful. It killed that forum. The forum still exists, but all that's left is gig and birthday announcements. Very little opinion is offered or encouraged.
Opinions-- good. Arguments-- good. Personal attacks-- bad.
Cheers,
wolf kristiansen
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Delta Dirt
169 posts
Jun 15, 2010
2:44 PM
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Welcome wolf kristiansen, ill be nice i promise.
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nacoran
2128 posts
Jun 15, 2010
2:51 PM
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Lol. That's a good story. Welcome to the forum, but Beware the Ides of June!
(I've wanted to make a forum/Ides of March joke for the longest time, but I never remember when it's the 15th of something.)
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captainbliss
157 posts
Jun 15, 2010
2:59 PM
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@wolfkristiansen:
Welcome! And thank you for the story. Made me smile.
@nacoran:
Sorry to ruin the joke, but the Ides of June fall on 13th, not the 15th.
xxx
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Jim Rumbaugh
240 posts
Jun 15, 2010
3:11 PM
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Thanks Wolf. I liked the story and I'm envious of the gig you had.
It reminds me of back about 1972. I was playing bass in a band that got called in as an emergency replacement at a topless bar. There was no signs of nudity until we started playing "Will It Go 'Round In Circles". An inspired waitress stepped on top of one of the tables, removed her top and started dancing. I was in my young 20's and rather surprised, and started missing A LOT of notes. Same for the guitar player.
Oh, what fond memories, indeed.
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intermediate level (+) player per the Adam Gussow Scale, Started playing 2001
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nacoran
2129 posts
Jun 15, 2010
3:39 PM
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Ides-
pl.n. (used with a sing. or pl. verb)
The 15th day of March, May, July, or October or the 13th day of the other months in the ancient Roman calendar.
Thanks Captain! I'd rather learn an obscure fact than get a punch line right any day. I only knew it from the literary reference. I guess I'll have to try again next month.
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Nate
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