Re: [Harp-L] Re: Top 10 living diatonic players

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

Lots of times, people refer to the AMOUNT of harmonica product  
someone has turned out and I suppose they put this figure up as a  
'benchmark'. I disagree with this criteria. There have been a lot of  
people who put out a lot of stuff and the quality suffered.

Example (just for fun). Pierre Fontaine (Pete Fountain), a famous New  
Orleans clarinetist, once said he wanted to put out 100 albums before  
he died. WOW, what a goal? I'm SO impressed. Meanwhile, he has so  
much repititon in his albums that the same stuff has been done over  
and over and over.

I'm not interested in how much product a person puts out. I'm  
interested in how much 'acceptable' 'quality' product is being  
produced. I'm not interested in how much a person earns in an hour.  
I'm interested in how much they get DONE in an hour.

As usual, just my opinion

Smokey-Joe & the Cafe s (appearing at:......naaah, I'm not saying)