Re: Grapefruit Juice Can

[Cathi Norton <canorton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

re:  fruit juice can & harp..

   I once did a picnic for the Pony Express Riders of  
Indiana (Jeez...no...I wasn't personal friends with Mrs.  
Lincoln, but...)  Anyway...there was an old guy there  
(white by God) who was crusty...mighty crusty.  He hung  
around the stage for our whole act.  I couldn't figure out  
what he wanted (I mean I know I'm excruciatingly  
attractive, but he had to be at least 70!)...

  Turns out, after we got off stage, he climbed up with  
another really gnarly character with a fiddle.  The fiddler  
pulled out his axe and went to sawin'.  The other guy,  
threw a suitcase on stage and opened it up.  Inside were  
about three really big tin cans.  At the end of each one, a  
harmonica was somehow secured (solder?), and at the closed  
end of the can, a hole drilled.  Through it, the old guy  
plugged in a microphone.  It was one of the wierdest rigs  
I'd seen.  He turned on the power, and MAN...what a  
sound...powerful and big-time wailing.  Looked like he was  
trying to swallow a whole can of tomatoes, but what a  
sound.

  That just tickled me...he didn't care what it looked  
like...he just thought (as he said later) it "sounded kinda  
nice."

Cathi