[Harp-L] Re : Enough with the "Oh, Suzanna" already!!

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Bobby G ( bobg@xxxxxxxxx ) Sez :

" Man, the things you find on eBay!!


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What a world. "

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Hurricane Sez :

¡ Hey Bobbie G !

I certainly can understand & relate to why you feel the way you expressed yourself . I did too felt those " feelings " and in a strange way saw a little of myself there too in that figurine as well  .

As a kid I would ride my bike all around my little town , my haunts included " hobo " town close too ( and where else would it be ) the rail road tracks . On one such outing I was with a few friends together riding and we ended up at the all American canal ( water supplier to the agri-business of our desert valley ) after leaving hobo town that morning and spotted one of the hobos from hobo town fishing on the canal , more that that I heard him playing a MB harmonica first before I saw him and he was really goooood . I was already into my 5th. year playing a diatonic , the year was 1959 and the moment stuck in my mind as we kids peddled home later and again I   just got jolted some 45 years later as I looked at the little figurine .

A few months go by and the camp ( hobo town as it was called ) filled with travelers and then emptied out looking like a ghost town so to speak from week end to week end and much a source of our
( neighborhood kids ) attention from time to time just to check out and see what was up there ( small rural desert farming  town , that's what I'm talkin bout man ! ) . One day I see " him " walking the tracks towards hobo town and first off heard the distinct sound of a harmonica as I walked home from school . That following Saturday morning weekend I made sure I rode my bike to the hobo town camp with MY MB alone ( I did that too ) and on this occasion I heard the sound of the harmonica playing before I saw " him "and new right away it was the same hobo I saw fishing on the canal playing a MB .

Long story short  - - - 

We  became friends , and he showed me a few things on the diatonic and - - -  he did play " Oh , Susana "  - - - heh heh of which  I learned heh heh , and now Bobby , dig this , on one of occasions I met up with  " him " chancing upon each other at the canal where I went fishin with my neighborhood buddies many times . While there I pulled out my C MB as he one too ( a " C " tuned MB ) and I blew my  buddies away playing that song with " him " as my buddies looked on in amazement . We all fished together as both of us played that Saturday morning entertaining my friends , after that my friends stopped making fun of me having to practice my music after that day  . 

Just looking at that piece of CAPO DIMONTE figurine too me back to 1959 because while the harmonica player bares no resemblance to me , the other guy sure looked like " him ".

Thanks for posting that even if it is a tad on the stereotyping image side we as harmonica musicians try so hard to get past ...... it did bring back a really great series of moments in my life just before the start of the sixties .....

.......don't start me talkin cause I'll tell  everything I know ......


Easy man :)


Sincerely :


HR

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