Re: [Harp-L] Modes and roads

["Dave Ferguson" <hoptowntiger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

What's a meta phor?.... why it's for cows to graze in...ba boom!
(HARMONICA CONTENT- One of the cow's was in 3rd position)

Dave Ferguson


On 31/03/06, jruss433@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <jruss433@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Okay, I'll go further off topic - the bus is a metaphor, but what is a
> meta
> phor?
>
> Mark Russillo
> a.k.a. The Rhode Island Kid
> also published poet
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave R. Fertig" <drfertig@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 3:55 AM
> Subject: [Harp-L] Modes and roads
>
>
> > At 06:05 AM 3/31/2006, Ruchard Hunter wrote:
> >>Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Modes, was 3rd Position Tunes
> >>
> >>I'll start by noting what a relief it is to be able to talk about stuff
> >>like this without everybody (including me) going berserk.  This list has
> >>certainly become a very nice place to visit. . .
> > I agree, and I don't get one silly millimeter of the stuff about modes,
> > man, I'm still trying to figure out how to play honest blues in 2nd
> > position.
> >
> > Harp-L feels like a bus we're all ridin' on, where some of the riders
> are
> > intensely fascinated by the motor, others the transmission or
> suspension,
> > some are focused on a map, others are re-designing the GPS, some (like
> me)
> > just stare out the window and listen to the crazy and often genius
> > conversation, catching gems of info  - and great music - here and there.
> >
> > And I think everyone digs most of the views and the many different
> places
> > we get to visit (vampire castles and Magic Sam?!), even if some of us
> > don't fully appreciate the finer technical points being pointed out to
> our
> > pointy heads.  So when point-to-point circles of fifth modalities with
> > tweed caps and left-handed harps all go right past my muddled mind, I
> > still get plenty out of it, even if I get pissy and rant occasionally,
> or
> > go cross-eyed at the arcana.  The point is, I enjoy the trip mightily.
> >
> > Thanks for the confusion, and Good Driving, Listmeisters!   (PS: a quiz:
> > is the bus a simile, metaphor or analogy?)
> >
> > Dave Fertig
> > http://elmtreeblues.org/
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