Re: new harper/tongue blocking

[William Lippe <lippe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	Ok, ok... I guess this is going to launch us into a discussion 
about equpiment/skill etc, not a bad thing in my opinion.
	Well, I dunno.. if they don't have the sould/feel on good 
equipment, I don't know of equipment that'll give it to them...
	In my rather musically un-educated mind, I see music as notes, 
tone, and feel.  The notes will carry over from instrument to instrument, 
and still be recognizable, catchy, or whatever.  The tone comes from the 
player, and the instrument, to different degrees.  I don't believe in 
good tone/bad tone, I believe in _different_ tones.  I for one love 
pucker for some country blues, tounge blocking is best for ampflication 
in my humble opinion.  The feel is that infinite amount of stuff that 
fits inbetween everything else.  How you breathe, how you move, how you 
think behind the music, how you press the strings, how you tense your 
forehead up when you bend that 7 draw.  Enough rambling from me...
	Barry Schaede Wrote:
> I disagree they might have sounded much better with cheap acoustic guitars
> with barb wire for strings.  There's a local group that just got a west 
> coast gig opening for Taj Mahal.  They have extremly cheap instruments 
> and aren't the most awesome players you'll ever hear,  but they've got 
> the feel. At least if thje other guys had had cheap acoustic guitars 
> they'd have been quieter.  People tend to use equipment as a diversion.  
> The real issue is trying to communicate feelings through music.  Bob 
> Dylan's a good example of this.  Not the best harmonica player you'll 
> ever hear but he meets and exceeds the standard of having a feeling 
> playing a few notes and communicating those feelings.  I can't fault 
> anyone that can do that.  There are an awful lot of technical monsters in 
> this world that fail to move me musicaly.  I'd rather play like Jimi 
> Hendrix than Jeff Beck.  Jimi Hendrix played upside down guitars.  Would 
> he have sounded better playing a proper lefthanded guitar?  Earl King did 
> the same thing.  These guys wanted to play guitar got one and made it 
> work.  There seems  to be a tendency on this list to generalize 
> discussions about technique.  My feeling is that this is a dangerous 
> trend.  There isn't any best one way to do anything.  Technique is 
> personal and what works for you might not suit another.  By the way 
> Little Walter's been dead for 30 years and if he were alive today I 
> suspect he'd be using digital effects and inovating like crazy like he 
> always did.  FJM
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