@ Todd - yeah, it's funny (to me)how things like this can make an impression on you when you are a kid then later in life it still has meaning, or come around again and have meaning again.
I remember distinctly (as a child of the 60's) having my AM transistor radio, riding the mean streets of my neighborhood on my Schwinn Stingray and listening to what I thought was the baddest ass song in the whole world, which was Canned Heat's 'On The Road Again'
What made it bad ass, for me, was the harmonica playing. (I ended up buying the LP because of that song.
And several decades later, I was bit by the harp bug and that song is.... still bad ass!
---------- Go ahead and play the blues if it'll make you happy. -Dan Castellaneta
The Sanford & Son warble is permanently etched in my brain, and so is the bass harp part. I didn't know there was such a thing as a bass harp when I was a kid. Ever since I found out (a couple of years ago) I have wanted to get one, in order to play stuff like that bass line.
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not any one in particular but i`d say the most famous harp warble is a amplified chicago blues warble.thats what did it to me...i heard that and went a bought a marine band...
I can't remember the name for sure. I think it was John Logan, John "Juke" Logan. I don't know it was awhile ago, but he did alot of studio harping in the eighties. Everthing he played back then I liked. In the ninties he played on the theme song for "Home Improvement" There were a couple episodes were they had a band of construction working musicians play. One episode John Logan played alog with them. Man that was cool. The were playing a chain saw, tapping a hand saw (Which I now how to play), I think one guy was hammering. I can't remember everything that was going on, but it was really good. I later found out that John Logan put the whole thing together. Anyway he also had a nice warble in that solo.
