Re: [Harp-L] Laugh in your Face !



We can be a little over sensitive when we play the "Rodney Dangerfield of instruments" as a friend once called it.

This is what is so astonishing about the poor little diatonic Hamonica...It was all someone could afford and that someone (insert country and economic condition) figured out how to
put more soul into those 10 holes than anything I have ever heard...
Heard a guy in wheelchair lately from congo play some pretty great blues on a coffee can with one string.
The guy is playing heartfelt blues slide...beautiful..


if you still feel mistreated...try taking up the accordion.
I played a gig the other night and left my accordion in the van.
When I returned I realized to my horror that I had left the van door open.
I quickly opened the door only to find there were two accordions...
Just kidding.


keep your doors locked

grant



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On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:54 PM, Daniel Gage wrote:


I'd probably walk out. I don't tolerate any B.S. from sales-people of any kind.


On the inside, I'd sigh and feel a little bad that the harmonica gets such a bad rap. Why does everybody always ask me, "What else do you play?", then back-pedal and apologize like crazy when I ask them why the harmonica isn't enough. I get frustrated, but it's a really difficult battle to fight. The masses really don't expect much of harmonica.

How do I break it to the girl at work that the "jammin' harmonica" she heard at the Coldplay concert was really sloppy, shrill, and generally lacking in any musical quality? She had fun, so if I say something,then I'm just an ass.

I get by with the words of Rick Estrin (I put this question to him directly). I asked him if it bothered him that the world often looks down on the harmonica. He said, "Man, sometimes what's cool isn't for everybody. McDonald's is for everybody".

Dan G.

     Jerl asks:
You walk into a music store to purchase musicial equipment.
When you are asked to pay you ask" Do you give professional
discounts"the owner ask , " what do you play and your reply
a Harmonica player" She laughs in your face.
What would you do?



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