Re: Rolling Stones harp playing

[csfb1!vmsys1!mnormand@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Michael W. Normandin)]

On Jul 7, 22:14, Winslow Yerxa wrote:
> Subject: Rolling Stones harp playing
> TO: internet:harp-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
	I read remember reading a few years back that in the early years Mick
was trying for 		several weeks to learn the harmonica . One day Brian
picked up a harp and started
	playing right away, Mick was jealous but Brian"s the one on the
credits.

			Mike




> Mick Jagger DID NOT play harp on the early Stones albums, as I
> recall. It was Brian Jones, their ill-fated founding member, who
> was the biggest blues fan in that group. Only after Jones died
> did Jagger pick up the harmonica.
>
> Check the credits on those early albums. I believe you'll see
> harp credted to Mr. Jones. His playing was actually half-decent -
> better than what Jagger played in the middle period stuff.
>
>-- End of excerpt from Winslow Yerxa