RE: [Harp-L] John Popper Criticism REBUKED....

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hey Noah, I like it, it rocks! Cool stuff, nice playing, I dig your
band, the whole image/sound.

However, fire your webmaster. I was trying to learn more and I just got
frustrated trying to navigate your site, there's just this window in the
middle with the text, a little window in all that space, and the scroll
bar was very erratic to operate, among other problems. I gave up, you
don't want folks doing that. I was hoping for more audio and the video
link was tantalizing but I could find none, if there isn't any (such as
with the press kit), remove the link, it disappoints folks to have the
link and then nothing. Just constructive criticism, I assume you guys
are in the game to make a little money. And the game is competitive,
every little thing counts, especially when you now have a world-wide
audience now going to your site!

PS Make sure it works equally well with both Microsoft Internet Explorer
and Mozilla Firefox (and Mac for that matter!). Most of the 'cool' web
site creator programs will build in limitations.

Bill Hines
Hershey, PA

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Noah Hoehn
Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 2:41 AM
To: matthewsmart@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] John Popper Criticism REBUKED....


Matt,

I disagree with your post and I would like to challenge you to explain 
further.  As a John Popper fan I would appreciate it if you fleshed out
your 
point(s).  Here are the problems I see with your statements:

First, I think your friend is wrong about Keith Richard's quote.  If you
can 
prove the quote then I would like to see it.  Here's a quote from Popper

that I think proves yours wrong:  "I actually met Mick Jagger, and I
said, 
"If you need my help on 'Miss You...,'" and he said, "Well, I'll let you

know, thanks." And I think I kind of hurt his feelings the way I put it
to 
him. And in Rolling Stone, I read Keith Richards kind of saying to Mick,

like, "Hey, why don't you get the guy from Blues Traveler to sit in?,"
and 
Mick's, like, "F#*$ off!" And the interviewer's like, "Yeah, he's good."
And 
Mick said, "Too good." And I was on cloud nine. That's one of my
favorite 
stories I'll ever have. Mick Jagger says I'm too good. How cool is
that?"

It's doubtful that Richards continually denied Popper because he played
too 
many notes.  It is likely that Jagger didn't want to get upstaged as
told by 
Popper himself.

--Busted--

Let's suspend reality for a minute and say that Richards DID in fact say

that to Popper... So what.  You want to know something Matt?  Mozart was

told by Emperor Joseph II that his opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail"
had 
"too many notes".  Big deal.  It's all about taste.

So while we're talking about taste...  You made a really pathetic
statement 
in, "That is not playing.  It is "wacking off" with your instrument."
It's 
pathetic because in fact, John Popper is playing.  He's blowing and
drawing 
air through his instrument.  Or maybe, I'm not enlightened enough to
know 
what "playing" is.  So won't you please elaborate on that?  And wacking
off 
eh?  Boy... I won't make ad hominem attacks to make my point but alot of

what BostonMoeJo said in his reply comes to mind.   So here goes:

DEFINE FOR ME WHAT WACKING OFF ON ONE'S INSTRUMENT IS.

Is it 16th notes? 32nd notes? 64th notes?  Since I'm sure that you'll
duck 
and run under the "just an opinion man..." response... I'd like your
opinion 
on my playing.  That's right--I'm willing to put myself out there on
this 
one.  So as a Popper guy, I'd like you to listen to my stuff at 
http://www.viciousaloysius.com/  and tell us what you think.

Feisty,
Noah