Re: Harps and Commercials

[Bobbie Giordano <bobg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My feeling is that the popularity of harps in ads indicates a growing 
respect for the special quality harmonica music has.  Nothing sounds 
quite like a harp.  It's distinctively different from other instruments.

Being a non-pro, I feel for those who know their music is by definition 
commercial whenever they get paid for it, but crave respect for their 
talents as true artistry.  The arts have always had an unholy alliance 
with funding; hence, resentment toward each other by artists and those 
who hire them, as well as battles over things like funding for the NEA.
Like most everything else, music is for sale and music is used to sell 
other stuff.  But is that all so bad?  Aren't there a lot of other things 
you're glad not to be selling?  I'd rather be playing my favorite music 
and instrument as back-up for some 4x4 utility vehicle commercial than 
standing on a hot slab of concrete sucking-up in order to sell one.  

If I must endure commercials day after day, it's nice if sometimes they 
have something to offer I can enjoy--like harp music in the background.
Would any of you turn down a offer to supply commercial music?  Would it 
hurt or help your rep?

Might be distasteful, but as a Dave Bromberg song went, "You gotta suffer 
to sing the blues."

Till next,                                          /be as a reed......\
....Bobbie                                          \bend with the wind/

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