[Harp-L] Re: Two harps in Canned Heat

[BluzeHarp@xxxxxxx]

Well the timing was good, just yesterday I put a couple videos up...  it's 
the first time I've ever used You Tube. One of the vids is a two  harmonica 
+ drums thing with my trio The Well Diggers from  late 2011.  I'm the harp 
player in the band, but clearly I'm not  the best one in this trio.  AC Blue 
who played keys with me is a  madman, the first clip is of his instrumental 
'Fire Drill' on which I mostly  play rhythm.  
 
We had only done 'Fire Drill' a couple times as of that  night, I hope my 
rhythm playing was at least passable  to this group, I remain painfully aware 
that my solo had not yet been  sorted out.  Had a better solo around the 
5:35 mark on the second  video.  Ironically, that was the first time we ever 
did that song  together.  I hope you watch all of it so you can get a feel  
for where I'm trying to go with this trio... I'd appreciate  your critique.
 
And yeah, I'm using one of my signature 'Twin Tone' mic's, I think you  
might like the sound I was getting that night... in spite of my  intermediate 
level chops on display that evening.  Recorded  volume is a fairly low, 
remember to turn back down when finished  listening!  
 
Let me know if these links work
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3muaN19oUNQ  
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wJM2zk4em4  
 
Christopher Richards
Harmonica Planet.com
 
 
 
In a message dated 3/4/2014 9:38:48 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx writes:

One of  the thing that surprises me when it comes to harmonica is the 
scarcity of  bands using two or more harmonicas playing in unison or harmony. The 
initial  learning curve of the diatonic is quite low, so it wouldn´t be 
that hard to  teach, say, a singer to double some easy parts if you already 
have a harmonica  in the band -- but it just isn´t done. Can´t say why. (Yeah, 
I´m aware of  Hazmat Modine.)

Now it so happened that I saw a photo (on Youtube) of  Alan W and Bob The 
Bear in Canned Heat, both blowing into mics. Looked like a  live situation.


You who know your Canned Heat better than I, was  something ever recorded 
with both of them? Of course Hite wasn´t much of a  player compared to Wilson 
but it would be interesting to  hear.