No way! Overblowing is here to stay. If you think people won't try to
follow
in the footsteps of Howard Levy, Christ Michalek, and all of the modern
greats I do believe you are wrong. They are just notes, it's not like they
are voodoo. Maybe someday people will actually understand that.
On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Nicholas Lovett
<lovett.nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
They've played sweet licks. And they've played them faster...and faster.
They've played, and played and played, till one became overstimulated.
But
I have to wonder, are they overblown? Will the style of overblowing
become
a footnote on harmonica history, like the double tapping of EVH? Within
six
months, nearly every metal guitar player had successfully mimicked the
style
of Eddie Van Halen. Little Walter just won a posthumous Grammy Award
more
than forty years after his death, and his style continues to dominate the
blues harmonica. Mimics of overblowers, mixed into the blues scale, I
think
are dying out. To stay out of the music industry,(where trends rip apart
young men like a meat grinder) I got the advice to stay ahead of it...or
behind it. I am happy to say that my mix of my first EP "Nick Lovett's
Shuffle" is finished. A website, and official albums will be available
ASAP. For my first record I have assembled a crack team of the top
blues musicians in New England. (And Worldwide) On guitar I have Paul
Size, of the Red Devils, Sugar Ray and the Blue Tones, Johhny Moeller/Hoy
and Mick Jagger. On bass and second guitar, Matthew Stubbs, of his own
great band, Charlie Musselwhite, John Nemeth, Junior Watson and Janiva
Magness. Rounding out, on the kit, is Chris Anzalone, one of the top
drummers around. I'll spare you the laundry list. I haven't tried to
re-invent the wheel, merely covered classics by Little Walter(Aww Baby)
Jimmy Rogers(Act Like You Love Me) and Sonny Boy Williamson II(Born
Blind).
I also have an original slow blues, and the title track, an Excello
style
instrumental, modeled after the Jerry McCain groove (She's Tuff) I will
follow with coming information, and hope that we can all put the
sixteenth
notes behind us. I hope that by being 23 and playing this stuff as
directed
to me by my record collection, and my teacher Annie Raines, I am able to
do
something
innovative. I sincerely hope you all give my music a chance.
Thank You Harp-L in Advance,
Nick Lovett
Tyngsboro, Massachusetts
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-Just Finished: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
-Currently Reading: Nothing, tomorrow going to pick up Brave New World,
only
a $1.50!!!
-Currently Writing: "Chastity's Lief Harmonica."