pull up long grey mare on youtube and you will hear peter green playing great harp on "long grey mare" with the other guitar players doing their thing-peter green is/was a great blue-eyed blues musician-he could do it all vocals,guitar and harp
i am a huge peter green fan, but the sax player is really great in the version i pulled up.. harp playing is ok, but nothing even close to his guitar work in other places
I seen some video with Peter Green going through an old storage locker that was full of these amazing classic guitars just sitting in there cases. That just kills me to see such beauty being wasted!
My mum told me it'd make me go blind, not old..........
Heheh......
Yes, it's a shame, but we all want to roll out these near dead souls off the back of previous glories.
I read a comment from Robert Plant this morning about the incessant questions he gets about Led Zep reforming. He said: 'Don't people realise that before long, I'm going to need help crossing the street'
Sorry to derail. Back to Peter Green's harp playing. It's halfhearted. Harmonicas are designed so that nearly anyone can squeak a tune out of them. I and IV chord at the bottom and melody from 4 blow on. As a result, people treat it like a toy. Getting great tone, playing really good blues or playing chromatically, very different story.
Mick Jagger is another one that grips my poo. Keef claims in his book that Mick can play as good as Little Walter. I haven't heard it. If anyone has, feel free to post up, but all I hear is poor embrochure, leaning on the 5 draw and sloppy single note playing.
If we had more serious harp players in the public eye and less old guitar players / singers squirting away so badly, we'd be treated a little more respectfully by our fellow musicians, hence the rant.
Apologies.....
Last Edited by on Feb 20, 2011 4:03 AM
No apology needed from you on that one, I agree wholeheatedly. Jagger, along with most of the singers in our uk bands in the '60's 'tried' to pop a bit of harp in.
Most of them saw Cyril Davies the first decent blues harp player in London back then, and he had an influence on the young Jagger.
I used to see Fleetwood Mac quite a bit in the 60's and they did not bother with harmonica as far as I can remember?***??*
John Mayall and Keith Relf of the Yardbirds were the two proper harp players in London back then
thanks greyowl sounds pretty like pretty good harpin to me-his vocals were very soulful back in those days-of course his guitar playing had killer tone bbking said he really made him sweat-I stand by my opinion
