Re: [Harp-L] SB2

["billannette" <mojoworkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Please forgive an ignorant question (or, is that a question asked out of 
ignorance?):

I recently bought two Chess "Best of" recordings, one by LW and one by SBW. 
The SBW recording seems to more frequency limited than the LW record, 
although recording dates were around the same years, so recording techniques 
should not be vastly different. Some tracks are better than others, with the 
ones done in the '60's (63 and 64) the best. The question has to do with 
SBW's harp timbre compared to LW. This recording seems to indicate that 
SBW's tone is thin and reedy-is this an effect he sought to get, or is it a 
by-product of the recording techniques? All the tracks were recorded by 
Chess and released by them.

Thanks,  bill

> re; ' My favorite SBW recording is the one where you
> > can hear him cursing out
> > someone in the studio at the start of a cut'.
>
> i think it was  on "Quiet Village" - " You can call it
> yo' mamma if you wanna! Ya gotta get it while its hot,
> or it aint worth a damn."  probably to producer Phill
> Chess. SBW should be in the philosophy  books.
>                               C-Rad
>
>
>
> --- Moandabluz@xxxxxxx wrote:
>
> > In a message dated 12/16/05 8:04:30 PM,
> > SONNYTONE@xxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > > Those weren't hands my friend, they were baseball
> > gloves,
> > > the man was enormous. Check out the German videos
> > where his hands covered
> > > the
> > > big 12 hole harp.
> > >
> >    The only video I have seen is from the Folk
> > Festival ones, and his fingers
> > overlap the end of the harp. His tone seemed edgier,
> > perhaps because he used
> > vocal mics in everything I have seen. I'm no SBW
> > expert, but it seemed like he
> > made use of a lot of different tones and probably
> > could make the thing sound
> > however he wanted.
> >    My favorite SBW recording is the one where you
> > can hear him cursing out
> > someone in the studio at the start of a cut.
> > Still a fool for the Harp
> > Steve 'Moandabluz' Webb
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