RE: [Harp-L] tweaking harps and lost in the blues

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey us rich blues guys have pain too. In fact, we probably feel more
pain than you poor folk and don't tell me that you wouldn't drive a
porche if you could afford it. :-)

The bottomline is, feeling is feeling and it has nothing to how much
a person has or doesn't have.  This may actually be a case were
having more is less which is why they buy more and more and more.

I know a few rich people that cold stomp anybody down with tone and
feeling alone.  Money ain't part of the equation. How you feel about
it does. 
Being able to emote has more to do with understanding one's self
moreso than anything else. 






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>From: SONNYTONE@xxxxxxx

>>completely differently back then, and Little Walter could just flat
>out play 
>>the  snot out of the harp because he lived it. Really hard to pull
>up in your 
>>Porsche  and play some blues that will make people cry cause they
>can feel the 
>>harp  player's pain in his music. More than technical ability alone,
>anyone 
>>that knows  about the blues knows the best compliment is when
>someone in the club 
>>comes up  to you and says, "I really felt what you were playing",
>versus, 
>>gee, your  overblow on the 6 in conjunction with the blah blah was
>superb..... 
>>You get the  drift. Guys are taking blues to another place which is
>evolution 
>>and great,  but it's still whether or not you feel them, bottom
>line. Big Walter 
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Chris Michalek

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