[Harp-L] Tasty harp, circa 1979

[Aeskow@xxxxxxx]

--Here's a clip of Johnny Winter's band, with the bassist doubling on  
neck-rack harp, with some plastic gizmo surrounding. Not bad for racked harp,  
whilst playing along on  bass.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZyxsH1ybEuA

Bob
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Johnny Winter's rack-harp/bassist in this clip is Jonny Paris, who used to  
play bass in my old band in NYC some 30 years ago.  Recently, he's been  
gigging in the downstairs lounge at B.B. King's club in New York.  I took  Mitch 
Weiss down there to jam a while back, and Mitch played a killer version of  
"Black Magic Woman" on his CX-12--nailing the riff without ever having played it  
before, I might add...It's not a jam set-up per se, but Jon's a big fan of 
other  harp players and welcomes talented ones to sit in.  Never a great  
technician by any means, Jonny epitomizes the kind of harp-player who can  transcend 
his lack of monster chops by knowing how to work a room--a subject I  feel is 
too rarely touched on in this forum.
 
Peace and Respect
Johnny T