Re: [Harp-L] Harp stories of geezers

[Moandabluz@xxxxxxx]

 It does my heart good to hear all these stories of how long it took and how 
hard it was to find information back 30 years ago about learning harp. If I 
hadn't had to learn 'music' as well as harp, I'd have been farther along. But, 
these stories are an inspiration and I'm all revved up again to work on harp. 
I've been spending most of my music time-allowance on upright bass in the last 
couple of years, rockabilly slap bass most recently. I saw a Texas musician 
last weekend named Wayne Hancock and his bass player just blew me away.   But 
some friends of mine have 3 piece band patterned after that one and I see places 
where harp will work well. 
   another flashback.. I saw Tony Glover play in person, as a guest with 
Bonnie Raitt, and I was disappointed. I still, somewhere, have a couple copies of 
his book and maybe even a copy of the record that went with one of them.   I 
learned more in one afternoon from Chris Michalek than all of the hours spent 
with that Glover book. Guys like Chris at Buckeye, guys like Jelly Roll 
Johnson, Joe Filisko, Madcat, Rob Paparozzi, Richard Sleigh, and many many more.... 
even Buzz, all showed me things that helped. Now, if I just had some talent to 
go with that . . . .

Still a fool for the Harp
Steve 'Moandabluz' Webb