Re: [Harp-L] YouTube -new harmonica player plays pop tunes

[Venky Ramakrishna <jazzyvenky@xxxxxxxxx>]

A lot better than the guy from Who (band at the Super Bowl).

On Fri, Jul 9, 2010 at 7:46 AM, martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> Gino is too polite here: his playing is crap. But there´s no death penalty
> against that, and maybe he´ll improve with time. (It beats me why he feels
> the need to make his effort public, though.)
>
> Marc´s point is about pedagogy, not harmonica playing. Even if he turns
> millions of youngsters on to the harmonica (not sure if I see the value in
> that ...) his playing is still crap.
>   There´s a distinction to be upheld there.
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> Cheers,
> Martin
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> From: GINO <ginoharmonica@xxxxxxxxx>
>  That's a,,well ,, not a very good copy of whammer Jammer.
> I wont hyper critisize but just say,,,, not good. IMO
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>           Gino
>   "LICENSE TO SMOKE"
> http://www.ginoharmonica.com
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> From: Marc Molino <mmolino54@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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> One of the comments below his video was from a father who has been playing
> the
> harmonica for 35 years and was disappointed at how little interest/respect
> his
> musician daughter gave the instrument... That is, until she watched and
> heard
> this Sugarlips guy playing. Now she thinks it is cool and wants to learn to
> play. Anybody who can have that kind of impact is OK in my book (yes, that
> is
> the very same book you are all subconsciously looking to be OK in, as
> well).
>
> -Marc
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