Re: [Harp-L] Re: Travel, Harmonicas, Respect

["Leonardo Kenji Shikida" <shikida@xxxxxxxxx>]

wearing a hohner-style harmonica belt full of diatonics, with a chromatic in
your right hand (don't push the buttom!), you'll look like a terrorist. If
you say that you're carrying a couple of bullets mics, then it's enough to
be arrested ;-)

definitively, harmonica is a dangerous instrument ;-)

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K.

On 2/17/06, Eric Garcia <ericgar85@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> i travel domestically, coast to coast, pretty frequently... and i get
> worried when my gear
> bag goes through the x-ray machine and they DONT open things up for
> further
> inspection.
> not only is my harp case stuffed with 20 or so harps that look like ammo
> clips under the machine,,
> but i'm 35, dark complexion and i've got a beard and mustache,,, i
> seriously
> look straight out of the terrorists fashion magazine... the last couple
> times @ the airport,,, straight through, without so much as a question.
> now THAT worried me..
>
> eric in miami
>
>
> >From: "Edu Calle" <freakedu@xxxxxxxxx>
> >To: "Post Harp-L" <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Travel, Harmonicas, Respect
> >Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 16:08:47 +0100
> >
> >Message: 5
> >Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 04:47:26 -0500
> >From: "M. N." <mnessmith@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >Subject: [Harp-L] Re: Travel, Harmonicas, Respect
> >To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> >Message-ID: <BAY104-F13A311D2EF2D6173DF880CB1F80@xxxxxxx>
> >Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> >
> >Rob wrote:
> >"More & more since 911, I feel the whole 'Joy of Travel Vibe' has been
> lost
> >to the threat and fear of terrorism. I was talking to guitarist Steve
> >Cropper <snip> We both agreed that AIR travel used to be an enjoyable
> >experience and there was a 'common courtesy' amongst the traveler and the
> >workers. We were saddened by the fact that in 'our lifetimes' we would
> >NEVER
> >see it anything like the way it WAS."
> >
> >=======================
> >
> >I hear ya. At the same time, though, this is only a new phenomena for
> >Americans. I'm guessing our brothers in England and in North Ireland,
> >Spain,
> >Israel and so forth have been coping with this new (to us) way of life
> for
> >a
> >long long time. That's the blues.
> >MN
> >
> >
> >Hello, I'm from the Basque Country, in the north of Spain.
> >I have never traveled in a plane but I can tell you that going out of the
> >Basque Country with the car was a hell. You get stopped in many many
> places
> >just because your license plates sayed that you were from the Basque
> >Country. Now with the european license plates (they just include your
> >country) it is a bit better. But I still remember the summers going to
> >spend
> >the holidays in my father's born place to see the grandparents and being
> >stopped and have to unload ALL the car because you could be a terrorist.
> >And
> >we only were my parents and two little boys (my brother and me) in a car.
> >Really sad.
> >
> >Harp content: time to go to practice those bends (begineer).
> >
> >P.S. As you can deduct English is not my born language, so excuse my
> >language mistakes.
> >
> >See you.
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