hope however fleeting

[alciere@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

Last week, my band recorded a Sonny Terry/Lightning Hopkins type song. 
Yesterday, after listening to all four takes, ten minutes each, I found a 
few notes with the right tone, the deep resonant old blues tone. So after 30 
years of playing, finally, on three notes,(out of a million)I can get a tone 
almost as good as the tone Little Walter got as a teenager. Little Walter of 
course got the tone consistently and seemingly effortlessly. 

Maybe in another thirty years I can play almost as tastefully. Then in 
another thirty years I can learn how to swing. 

Oh yes-material thread interlude. I got those nice notes on my beat up Blues 
Harp-remember my rant about how I hate wooden combs? 

Equipment-an ancient champ(1948!) with metal tubes and an 80s Green Bullet. 

I really would like to blame my equipment for my lack of tone. The Harp List 
could help me by affirming the lack of tone is due to a deficit in my 
equipment-nothing to do with me at all. 

Rainbow Jimmy
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