I met the guy at a Christian rock festival in 1990.
He threw me a Huang Star Performer.
Trimmed and Burnin' with Glen Kaiser was a complete mind job to me (I'm English btw). Stunning voices, harp and dobro. Anyone who hasn't heard the song Celestial Shore needs to go find it.
I had a number of chats with him over the phone during that time and he sent me an Astatic JT30, with a volume control with that switched off (a big thing at the time). I sorted him out a sweatshirt from his ancestors hometown Nottingham.
I've since had the JT30 chrome plated. If I meet the guy again, I'll give it back.
Kudos to the first 'real live' harp player I ever met.
@Stevelegh: I was at the proverbial crossroads in my life when Trimmed and Burnin' came out and that album was a life changing experience for me.
I got to see Glenn and Darrell perform both together and separately in the years following that album and their follow-up, Slow Burn. They're the reason I took up harmonica.
Does anyone know what Darrell's setup is? Back in early-mid nineties when I saw him perform I didn't know anything about amplified harp or what to look for except that he used a JT-30.
one of the things he is doing around 4:02 is blowing in and out of the 6 hole very rapidly. CD,CD,CD,..etc. i think it's a F harp..... ---------- MP hibachi cook for the yakuza doctor of semiotics superhero emeritus
I've just downloaded both albums from iTunes. At the time, Christian music was awful. Artists were marketed as an alternative to Eric Clapton, Tina Turner, Run DMC or whoever was popular at the time and it all seemed very insincere. Trimmed and Burnin' was the only authentic thing out there. Beautiful stuff.
