Re: Blues purism

[Lenny Henderson <lennyharp@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bob,

I love what ya said.  I just went to a B.B.King music
festival.  I already forgot the jazz/blues band from
New Orleans that opened because they were too loud
without definition of parts.  You could not hear solos
clearly especially the Harp solos.  

Then Jeff Beck came on, who I have followed and loved
since the early 60's when he actually played some
blues.  I could care less that he played only a few
licks that could be called blues he was great as a
guitarist and more importantly as a musician.  

Last B.B. was well recieved and respected/applauded by
all.  I have loved his music a long time also.  He was
not at his best so the blues part of the show was not
my favorite part.  Now I did enjoy the whole show but
for different reasons with each band.  For me I felt
Jeff Beck, Terry Bozzio and Tony Hymas gave me the
musical show I came for.

LennyHarp

- --- Bob Laughlin <rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> But heck,,that's what I mean. I can't help but love
> good music. I've even learned to enjoy hearing a
> great aria sung by some guy in Italian, or French,
> even if it IS kinda like "showing off",,hehe,,  I
> actually like hearing well-performed music of every
> type, as long as it hasn't had the life packaged and
> "produced" right out of it.
> 
> I love the blues. I love all kinds of blues. Tell
> the truth, I even see opera as a form of blues, if
> you can see it that way. Some guy pouring out his
> heart to sing "Vesti la Giubba", from "Pagliacci"
> sure sounds like blues to me. His pain is my pain,
> brudda.
> 
> Getting back to "harp content",,,
> 
> Thanks again, to all the posters to harp-l, AND to
> the wonderful and generous people that enable this
> board to exist. 
> 
> Bob Laughlin


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