Re: Why lay out?

[William Lippe <lippe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

	In response to the question about the harmonicas use as a 
background/rhythm instrument:
	The new Cephas (SP?) &* Wiggins album has examples of some rhythm 
playing.  I think the main difference with the harp is that it's mouth 
powered, not a string, which dominate radio play these days.  A string 
starts out loud, and has a certain characteristic "decay", depending on 
the settings of the amp, instrument, accoustics.. etc..  it takes a lot 
of work to get the volume dynamics of a harp to sound like a guitar, to 
have the "crunch"..  Rhythm playing is also very often droning, which is 
sometimes hard to do on a harp, considering we don't have 5 gallon lungs. 
Just my thoughts..
	On a sidenote...  Does anyone have any suggestions on how to 
twist my harp over into the world of more punkish stuff?  I don't know 
much about digital effects, but I guess that's what I'll be looking 
into.  If anyone has experimented with genres of music that are "harder" 
than blues, blues-rock, I'd be interested to hear from you.
BTW- The new Dick Dale album has a track with some interesting harp.  A 
kind of bass dependent, funky, dark tune.  The disk is called "into the 
unkown" or something similar.  I don't have it, just heard a cut on the 
radio..