Re: [Harp-L] Re: Harp-L Digest, Vol 83, Issue 3

[michael rubin <michaelrubinharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>]

Once, the closest resemblance to a playboy model I had ever seen in my
life came up to me and said, "I think harmonica players are hot!"  I
thanked her and went home to my wife.
Michael Rubin
Michaelrubinharmonica.com

On Thu, Jul 1, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Marc Spilka <marc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The best line I ever heard:  I was playing a duo gig with a piano player at
> a nice French restaurant/bar combo.  We played almost all jazz, me mostly on
> sax and flute.  We did a couple acoustic blues songs on harp to break things
> up a little.  The very attractive bartender came up real close to me and
> said "you give good harp."  I had trouble concentrating after that for a
> while.
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> I had another buddy I was always dragging to Norton Buffalo shows.  Once he
> said to me, that guy is all technique, you play better and with more
> feeling.  I kept him as a friend but wrote off all his opinions after that.
>
> Marc Spilka
> Los Gatos, CA
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> Ha! Michael, great anecdote! Smart woman!
>
> If all those music fans knew how much we harmonica players have to train our
> tongues and mouths to be strong, sensitive, agile, fast and soft, we'd have
> almost as much "personal attention" as plank-spankers, who spend all their
> time running their hands up and down a long piece of wood, grimacing and
> drooling. Yet, somehow, it seems we harp players aren't considered as sexy.
> Go figure!
>
> -Dave "Flutter-Tongue" Fertig
> ps: It's ok, some of my best friends are geeter-box bangers!
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