RE: [Harp-L] RE: Gil Scott Heron Harp Player

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Man, somebody had to go and mention Gil Scott-Heron. Back in the 70's, my
barracks roomie in the military was somewhat of a militant black. He used to
sit and listen to Gil Scott-Heron albums amid plumes of smoke. I really got
to like it a lot (er, the music). On and on about the "Oatmeal Man" and the
injustices. Who could forget "Whitey on the Moon". Now I'm on Amazon
searching through the available stuff since my long-lost barracks roomie
took all the vinyl with him. Is Scott-Heron still around?

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Robert Paparozzi
Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 3:13 PM
To: Dave Shannon; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] RE: Gil Scott Heron Harp Player

Wow!...Nice homework was done by both Tom Ball and Dave!!

    Tomorrow my friend Bernard Purdie is back in from Chicago, I'll ask him 
if he remembers any of this as I know he did many records with Gil-Scott and

toured with him and worked alot with Stevie around that time. I went to see 
Gil Scott Heron Live at my College back in the early 70's....

little did I know, that about a decade and 1/2 later, I'd be using that 
drummer in MY band,-)))

thanx for the interesting history lesson guys,-)
best,
rob