N.O.D.
338 posts
Oct 31, 2010
4:00 AM
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Hi Bro's and Adam i thought i would do the right thing and Contact the young Man From the Youtube Clip Posted By
Adam for our Reactions?
That Question got me Adam you asked for our reactions?
Not our Thoughts?
I checked out his Youtube Page to find he is a Very good Player for the 2 short years he has been Playing:)
Check this out this is Youtube user Tom27j Reply What do you think Should some one else contact him and invite him to be a Member OF MBH?
To: Nastyolddog
Subject: Re: Modernbluesharmonica forum
Date: Oct 31, 2010
Message: hi, thanks for passing this on, i am amazed at the amout of attention this vid has provoked. i never set my self up as a teacher this was just a vid for my friends, Adam is one of my heros, i learnt everything from him off youtube and told him this in a comment on one of his vids, not my intention to annoy him. hell, i'm still at school!
i have only been playing two years, but i know enough to pass on some tunes to a beginner. it's a free world last i looked?
cheers mate, could you pass this on to MBH
Bro's i would dearly love to see this young man be Offerd Membership to MBH Forum:)
I Might be a Wild Child Hard Muther at Times But,,
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I'm a Fair Man, Cheers:)
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kudzurunner
1985 posts
Oct 31, 2010
5:37 AM
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This forum is open to all--as long as they're willing to play by the rules--and I'll be delighted to have Tom as a member.
I stumbled across his video by putting the words "blues harmonica" into the YT search engine and selecting "today" as the time frame. This is a good way of keeping your finger on the pulse what what is out there.
This form of searching doesn't bring up videos unless the uploader has decided to make them public to everybody on YouTube. If Tom intended to share only with friends and family, I've helped awaken him to his error, and am happy to have done that.
People who upload videos to YouTube for public consumption are, as far as I'm concerned, busking to the world, and it's important, for their own development--as players but especially as teachers--that the world offer them feedback. That's called the reality principle, or at least that's what Freud called it. It stands in opposition to the pleasure principle. It's great when everybody loves us and coos over us, but the world isn't always like that, and the world in which the blues arose is definitely not like that.
My mission is to educate the young, and one of the best ways of educating anybody is introducing them to the reality principle. That's why I posted the video and why I solicited constructive feedback from this cauldron of feuding scavengers, with the stress on "constructive." My original post was a model of ethical clarity. I wasn't sure that the young man realized the full extent of his audience and I thought that we might awaken him to that. I was right. He emailed me last night. I responded to him this morning. The world is a magical place.
I've gone back and taken a look at the dozen posts that ensued, and I find myself amazed at how supportive they are. Nor do I find any anger in my original post.
I had a conversation with Billy Branch several days ago in which he yelled at me for 15 minutes. Next to that sort of thing, our response to Tom's video has been a model of supportive fellowship. Yet it seems that our response--the very fact of our response--has diverged from what Tom expected when he tossed that video off into cyberspace. Good! That is the reality principle kicking in. We have helped anchor the young man incrementally more firmly in the world in which the blues actually arose and in which the music is actually made.
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eharp
866 posts
Oct 31, 2010
6:38 AM
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adam- it could be that the contact nod made was not understood or misinterpreted by tom. (not really a big leap there.)
though he should expect criticism, considering today's society, posting doesnt not mean he needs/wants it. nor wants an educator.
if you were really going to introduce him to the reality principle, you wouldnt have asked for only constructive criticism. that aint reality.
i post things for friends and send them a link. i dont post it for public consumption , though i realize there may be some.
all that said; is he gonna join the asylum? it is always nice to get new blood.
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N.O.D.
341 posts
Oct 31, 2010
7:04 AM
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Eharp get some Balls:/
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Grow Up Sister :/
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eharp
871 posts
Oct 31, 2010
9:33 AM
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i'll get some balls, nod, when you learn punctuation.
but may be i will test my balls out right now. seeing how you are posting on a forum you must, also, be open to criticism. right?
you post like your some tough hombre, but i see nothing but hot wind. you attempt to pass of your lack of punctuation and grammar and spelling as some type of gangster/hood thing that i doubt you have.
your picture is of an over weight, middle age, balding wannabe trying to act young by wearing some, to you anyhow, cool black clothes.
adding all this up brings to my mind of a insecure and ignorant lonely old man with no close family and no wife.
how's my balls?
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eharp
872 posts
Oct 31, 2010
9:36 AM
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i'll wait while you get somebody to translate for you as this is in true english and not some unintelligible slang.
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nacoran
3118 posts
Oct 31, 2010
11:29 AM
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eharp, NOD, play nice. I didn't sign on this morning to read about eharp's balls, and 3/4's of the forum population is either over weight, middle aged, balding and or wannabes; some of us resemble several of those remarks.
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nacoran
3120 posts
Oct 31, 2010
11:40 AM
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Yes there are.
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eharp
877 posts
Oct 31, 2010
12:12 PM
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possible new thread-
are there certain physical characteristics that increases one's odds in becoming a harp player?
lol
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nacoran
3122 posts
Oct 31, 2010
12:26 PM
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I know your being factitious eharp, but yes! I have tendinitis problems with my wrists. I couldn't play guitar or piano.
I think we may be chubby because we don't burn the calories that someone lugging around bigger amps does, and if you are bald you can still look cool playing harmonica, but not so much guitar...
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harmonicanick
966 posts
Oct 31, 2010
12:35 PM
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@nacoran
Nate, I got one of the NSD powerball gyroscope exerciser to try and get rid of my tendonitus.
3 weeks later it is much better, give it a try.
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Rubes
131 posts
Oct 31, 2010
1:49 PM
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Isn't that why some of us don the 'blues hat'?
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eharp
882 posts
Oct 31, 2010
1:55 PM
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i wear the hat because i always loved hats.
(grandpa's influence, i suppose)
that and i look GREAT in hats!
no! really!
i have had folks i should wear more hats. (preferably ones with bigger and lower brims.)
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tookatooka
1832 posts
Oct 31, 2010
2:04 PM
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Hmmm! Pulls up chair and settles down for the fight to start.
Hey Tom27, hope you enjoy the sight of grown men rolling around on the floor biting and cursing each other?
Reckon the BYBO2's gonna be used to settle some scores. Should be fun.
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eharp
885 posts
Oct 31, 2010
2:06 PM
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remember. tooka, tom is still in school. he probably isnt immature enough for this type of forum.
lol
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nacoran
3125 posts
Oct 31, 2010
2:07 PM
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Moderator Hat Powers Activate:
That's enough guys. Jaybird, NOD has posted lots of his stuff up. I already politely told them to knock it off. There is no reason for you to chime in like that. I'm going to suggest that several of you delete your comments on your own.
Harmonicanick, thanks for the tip. It's been a long term problem since I had a summer job my first summer after high school. I had problems with my elbow and my shoulder too (I had surgery for an arthritic shoulder before my 30th birthday). It's been particularly bad lately. I'm not sure if I overdo things or I am just prone to it.
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TahoeMike00
120 posts
Oct 31, 2010
2:10 PM
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.... pass the popcorn please.
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The more I learn about harmonica, the more I learn how much more there is to learn.
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kudzurunner
1987 posts
Oct 31, 2010
2:24 PM
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Thanks, Nate. I appreciate the fair and conscientious job you're doing.
eharp and NOD, please cool it.
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N.O.D.
342 posts
Oct 31, 2010
3:41 PM
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Done Adam Yeh i know I been Pushing certain members real Hard Sorry Backing off..
Yo Eharp
Q1 there usually are warning signs that folks should take heed of when reading.
N.O.D. don't provoke the Old Mongrel He Bites
as For my Past life Bro you couldn't walk in my Shoes
I'm Lucky to have made it to 50 and I'm a Tough Muther
sometimes but a Funny Old Bugger most times:)
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Eharp can we make Love Now:)
or should i buy you a Drink 1st:)
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eharp
892 posts
Oct 31, 2010
5:17 PM
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"don't provoke the Old Mongrel He Bites"
so much for letting it go.
goodbye.
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N.O.D.
343 posts
Oct 31, 2010
5:40 PM
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Eharp
"don't provoke the Old Mongrel He Bites"
I'm Talking Me, not you..
So i guess?
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Sex is out of the Question:)
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