Re: [Harp-L] Inapproriate playing



....hmm...I meant the steel guitar had two necks....not the steel player.

On 7 November 2012 11:22, Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I never ask to sit in.The one exception was thirty odd years ago, and I
> asked if I could sit in for a song or two with a band I was familiar with,
> and admired.
> The guys in the band were very nice about it, but you could see the
> reluctance in their eyes. I was probably fifteen or twenty years younger
> than them.
> When they finally called me up, I pulled out the harps, and discovered to
> my horror that they were out of pitch with the band, which, I might add,
> included a steel guitar player with two
> necks of ten strings apiece. So then I bowed out, feeling like a real
> fool, and that somehow fate had dealt me a well deserved blow for my
> presumption.
> Years later, I got to know and play with some of these people
> professionally.. They didn't appear to recall me from the past, and I never
> got around to reminding them.
> RD
>
>
> On 6 November 2012 13:30, Kevin Hamilton <kham27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Harmonica players have enough stacked against them?
>>
>> I've never heard anyone say anything bad about harmonica players before.
>> Please elaborate.
>>
>> On 4 November 2012 23:55, James D Hoskins <jameshoskinz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > I just received an email from a friend who evidently reads harpL but
>> > doesn't as far as I know participate in these discussions. He is a
>> working
>> > pro player, records, has written a couple of books, and is a name most
>> of
>> > you would know and respect. He had a point we all should consider:
>> > "You are so right - it is disrespectful and gives all harp players a bad
>> > name. We don't need this crap."
>> >
>> > Harmonica players have enough stacked against them.
>> >
>> >
>>
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