Re: [Harp-L] Pat Missin "Drivin' North"

[joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 6, 2010, at 1:16 AM, dmf 273 wrote:

> I've "known" Pat Missin for at least 15 years.   But I've never
> actually met him in person.  And until just now I'd never heard him
> play.  We've conversed over the phone a couple of times but mainly
> we've conversed through innumerable e-mails,  and mainly about his
> knowledge of altered tunings.   He's always seemed like such a proper
> gentleman, that I never imagined he was such a KICK ASS HARMONICA
> PLAYER as he demonstrates in this YouTube.  I am totally in awe and
> blown away, not just by his mastery of the instrument,  but by his
> groove, soulfulness, jazziness - words just don't do it justice.
>
> Why isn't Pat better known as a player?

Actually, those of us who know (and love) him, do. He is just so shy  
and unassuming that he never blew his OWN
horn to bring down the walls of Jericho.
> So without further ado,  please listen to Pat Missin's original
> composition "Drivin North"  (which I wonder if its an homage to Jimi
> Hendrix' 'Drivin South"?)
>
>
> http://www.youtube.com/user/rtrob#p/u/20/uX3bx5mdcys