Re: Don't cry over spilt milk. Mop it up! WAS Stigma of the Harmonica

["G." <gigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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From: <bbqbob917@xxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 10:11 AM
Subject: Re: Don't cry over spilt milk. Mop it up! WAS Stigma of the Harmonica


> --- "G." <gigs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey there,
> I'm not so sure that this "stigma" isn't propagated in part by insecure
> harmonica players who wail about the lack of respect for the instrument.
> :-)~
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> For instance the very act of bemoaning the poor state of our harmonica's
> reputation will only reinforce it.  Instead rise above it and talk about how 
> we are each playing a part in furthering the instrument and building on 
> what people have already done will encourage and inspire others to do the 
> same.  Talk about what you're doing, or better still: don't talk, Do!
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[BBQ Bob] 
> Hi,
> G's post is basically what I've said to at least 60% of harp players
> I've run across for years. 
> 95% of the problems and so-called "stigma" attached to the harp players 
> and the instrument itself squarelyu belongs to harmonica players 
> themselves, so if there's blame to go around, look in your nearest mirror 
> and that's whose fault it is. I get really tired of the "Rodney Dangerfield" 
> syndrome from harp players because too often they themselves are the 
> CHIEF cause of their problems, and then on top of that, they are the 
> LAST to admit it, especially to themselves, so for the most part, I get 
> tired of the whining of these players who don't have the stones enough to 
> admit they are the chief cause of their problems.
> 
> If harp players ever wondered why when they ask a band to let them sit 
> in and they get the attitude, "Oh God, here comesd another drunken idiot 
> that thinks he's a freakin' musician just because he plays a freakin' 
> harmonica," 
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> Sincerely,
> Barbeque Bob Maglinte

Bob?  I don't get it,  what was I just saying?!

G.