How do you bridge the 2 channels, wanna be a good guy and share this gem with the rest of us? I don't know if it will work with my magnatone(23 watts according to what's on the front)but I might take a chance at blowing myself up for some more punch! Thanks , Lenny M
Mojo Red <harplicks@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hi folks,
Well, I'm still recovering from a week's worth of sleepless nights and am trying to process some of the overwhelming onslaught the experience we call SPAH.
I can't tell you all what happened, and can't possibly acknowledge all the people I'd like to... many new friends and old. The list is too long to be meaningful.
So instead I'm going to simply recount a couple of outstanding moments in my personal SPAH experience:
Being destroyed by Jason Ricci's performance on Friday night... witnessing Robert Bonfiglio going ape along with the rest of us. Unbelievable. Robert got down on his knees and bowed (me too!). Jason dedicated a song to Al and Judy Smith... very, very classy.
Watching Jason's bass player, Todd Edmunds seriously honking away on a giant bass harp, taking lessons from Frank Warner. Now THAT's what SPAH's about.
Hearing Scott Berbarian talk me ~out~ of buying one of his incredible Meteor Amps after he showed me how to bridge the two channels of my big 35-watt '64 Alamo (which I had brought in for Dennis Oellig to look at) and magically pulled about 10 more watts from it. He said, "So, exactly what is it you don't like about your amp. It sounds GREAT to me." Man, that's one classy guy!
Getting invaluable tips from George Brooks and Chris Michalek on using overbends, and getting better articulation and tone on OBs.
Hearing Robert Bonfiglio destroy us with his classical performance... And then 80-something-year-old Stan Harper playing jazz standards on chromatic at the speed of Jason Ricci... Huh?!!
Introducing my wife to many of my harmonica friends at long last.
Meeting Jason's partner Brady. What a great guy, and a huge talent on piano. Later hearing Jason play the living daylights out of a little green plastic souvenir toy harp at the Saturday night dinner. My wife and I were in awe.
Telling guy after guy after guy that, no, I'm not in a band. My band crashed and burned. I've got a day job I'm just a woodshedder hitting blues jams right now. It hurt every single time.
Hearing how MUCH every player has improved over last year... that just blew me away (Dennis F., that's you!). The bar at the blues jam has been nudged up higher than ever.
Can't begin to tell you how awesome some of these guys are... Tim Moyer, Tom Albanese, George Brooks., Chris M., Jimmy Gordon, Jimmy Lee, Paul Messinger, Dennis Gruenling, Warren Bee, Jellyroll, Danny Traenor, Johnny Bishop, Joe Filisko, Michael Rubin, Winslow, Alan Holmes... everyone with tone to the bone and chops to die for. Okay. No more names... like I said, the list is too long, the talent too deep.
Buzz Krantz's blues jams were ALL awesome, but on Saturday night I happend to sit next to my friend Warren Bee who blew some incredible harp that night. At one point I was in my own (long-awaited) solo and Warren, well he leans in real close to me... I mean ~reeeal~ close, his ear right in my face... like, uncomfortably close...
Well, I took it into my head (what with all the ...erm... "root beer" I'd been drinking), and I cupped his ear like a JT-30 mic and played right on through his bald head... ending on the 9-hole blow. It brought the house down, ... but jeeze... I'm awful sorry, Warren... But then he played and he got me back with an unexpected 9-hole squawk that made me jump right outta my seat! Haw!
Anyway, I've already written more than I intended... Let's just say it SPAH was one helluva giant harmonica party.
It's tough to face my day job again.
Harpin' in Colorado, --Ken M.
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