RE: [Harp-L] I'm Gonna Listen to 'Em

["Chris Michalek" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Who do you think the Walter boys et al listened to? Sax and guitar...



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>---- Original Message ----
>From: rcush@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: RE: [Harp-L] I'm Gonna Listen to 'Em
>Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:35:15 -0600
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>>If you're gonna play blues, then by golly you better be listening to
>harp 
>>players.  Little Walter, Big Walter, Sonny Boy I & ll, Sonny Terry,
>George 
>>Smith, Junior Wells, James Cotton, Sam Myers, Slim Harpo, Jimmy
>Reed, 
>>Howlin' Wolf, Billy Boy Arnold, etc...all play blues with unique
>styles, 
>>tone and phrasing that'd take more lifetimes than I'm allowed to
>master. 
>>I'll keep listening to 'em, thank you.  My mistake is I haven't
>listen hard 
>>enough.
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>>Then, I'll continue listening to the guys that really listened to
>those 
>>guys, figured them out, and added what they mastered with their own
>flair 
>>and ideas, such as Kim Wilson, Gary Smith, Rod Piazza, William
>Clarke, Jason 
>>Ricci, Adam Gussow, Sugar Ray Norcia, Ian Collard, Mitch Kasmar,
>Jerry 
>>Portnoy, Paul Oscher,  etc...
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>>Then, I'll continue buying instructional material from guys that
>have REALLY 
>>listened and figured out what I haven't, so I can get further down
>the road. 
>>I ain't listening to sax, piano or guitar licks when there are still
>a 
>>million and two licks from those cats listed above that I haven't
>gotten 
>>around to yet.  And, if some of those guys copped from sax, piano or
>guitar 
>>players, then I steal what they've come up with, because life is too
>darned 
>>short and I'm getting closer to the shorter end of it each and every
>year. 
>>And by the way, few of them sound like one another--and I'll doubt
>that I'll 
>>ever sound like any of 'em, but I'll have a blast working at it. 
>And 
>>listening, REALLY listening.
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>>See ya--
>>Rick 
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Chris Michalek

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