Re: [Harp-L] Building Solos

[Joel Fritz <jfritz666@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

dzeller@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > From Chris Michalek:
>
> "STOP listening to harmonica players. Most of them are not very good 
> musicians. Try listening to guitars and saxaphones if you want to 
> play differently."
>
> It's funny, I read an interesting quote by Duane Allman (to another
> guitarist)recently that was something along the lines of "for me, playing
> guitar is not about guitar, it's about the harmonica." This was posted
> somewhere on the Allman Bros website.
> Most of Duane's memorable slide guitar solos (consider Statesboro Blues and
> One Way Out, for example) can be duplicated almost note for note on harp:
> he derived much inspiration from harpists.
> Maybe the rule for musicians (corresponding with Chris' advice above)
> should be:  whatever your instument, listen to something else if you want
> to develop a unique sound! 
> Hey, it certainly worked for Jason Ricci and Dennis Greunling, whose living
> rooms are surely stacked with old Jazz saxaphone LPs!
> Zig 
>
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IIRC, the Allman solo on "Statesboro Blues" was inspired by Jesse Edwin 
Davis' guitar solo on the Taj Mahal version that came out a few years 
previous.

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