Re: new harper/tongue blocking

[William Lippe <lippe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 15 Aug 1994, Barry Schaede wrote:
> The other night I went to see a local blues band.  I had met 
> them when they had come to my house to try out an amp I was selling so 
> out of politeness I went to see them.  5 piece band,  there must have 
> been at least 30K yes that's thousand $ worth of equipment on that 
> stage.  These guys flat out sucked.  They stank up the room.
> if you can't play no amount of good equipment is going to help
	Well they most assuredly would've sounded worse on cheap acoustic 
guitars from taiwan with barb wire for strings...  So in a manner, good 
equipment will make it _easier_, and in some cases, especially Mr. 
Filiskos, new things may even be possible/easy enough to work into 
songs, jams, etc..  but boy do I know enough people who buy a new guitar 
effect each week, and aren't satisfied because they don't sound like 
Hendrix...
	BTW everyone-  I should be getting some digital/HQ analog 
bootlegs of Woodstock, I'll be sure to put together a "harp" tape if 
people are interested.  I'm not promising anything, but if you want your 
name to be stuck on a list of people who I'll contact when/if this 
occurs, send me a message with "UM... HARP" or something similar :) in 
the subject line.