RE: [Harp-L] Re:Crap

["Steve Shaw" <moorcot@xxxxxxx>]

> What's this story about 99 % of harp players sucking? I would say that 
> adversely most harpists >deserve recognition for decent playing. Not 
> everyone is a LW or SBW but that doesn't mean >you're playing crap! Harri


Well said, mate.  I don't make any money out of doing the one thing I love 
most - which is playing the harmonica in case anyone's getting funny 
ideas... ;-) - I made me CD and have just about broken even after a couple 
of years...but if I wasn't having fun I just wouldn't do this.  Never pick a 
harp up again.  I'm no Brendan Power or Mick Kinsella, but I've just been to 
Dublin for the first time in my life and I was welcomed with open arms in 
some of the best Irish pub sessions and have been in seventh heaven about it 
ever since.   You can be dead serious about the harmonica, and we all should 
be, but make sure that you're having fun while you're being serious.  
Sometimes I'm definitely crap but other times...well, I dunno, and I'm not 
going to ask anyone!

Steve

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