Re: [Harp-L] Sunny girl and Annie

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

Please substitute the word "challenge" for the word "bury" in my original post.
 
Experienced musicians, whenever they are on stage with others that play the same instrument, tend go "head to head", even in fun, when trading ideas. "Upping the ante" is a common occurance.
 
I worked with Sunny Girl early on, teaching her not to be intimidated and to rise to the occasion. This was done by going "head to head" with her and trying to "bury" her. It was here that I learned that Sunny Girl's talent needed to be challenged in order to blossom. She learned quite well and it added to her confidence level.
 
What great fun it was to go out with her, get her up on stage with other more experienced harmonica players and watch the look on their faces as this "cute little kid" responded like a seasoned pro to the situation.
 
Remember that this occurred in (I believe) 1997 and Sunny Girl was 7 years old.
 
My "bury" semantic was not directed towards Annie, but was more of a reaction to how proud I was of Sunny Girl. 
 
I agree with Bill that, if my semantic was a point of contention, the more mature and professional approach would have been to email me privately off list with the concern and I would have been more than happy to make a correction, thereby sidestepping any "trouble" or "misunderstandings".
 
The Iceman
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Hines <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 20:58:11 -0400
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] Sunny girl 


Good lord. I for one, and I'm sure most if not all here, read this as such,
an entertaining story with a 'little' embellishment and knew better than to
believe that an adult, much less a professional musician, much less Annie
Raines, would try to "bury" a little kid in public like that. And after all
the positive contributions that Iceman has shared here, I would have given
him the benefit of the doubt or posted to him privately to give him a chance
to correct it himself before doing this. It was just an expression, and now
the Iceman's in trouble with Annie. I don't think that was necessary! 

"I'm gonna go tell Annie", "I'm gonna go tell Annie".....there's a kid like
that in every class, haha.

Geez.

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of BostonMoeJo@xxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, October 12, 2005 11:47 AM
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx; paulandannieblues@xxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:Subj: RE: [Harp-L] Sunny girl 

Annie~

I'm posting this on Harpl  (e-mail to:harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx) & cc'ing: to you.
Happy New Year!!! ~Bo



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