[Harp-L] Re: Geesh....so much about T. Morgan...

[jon kip <jonkip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Geesh, I find it really hard to believe that anyone took this  
nickname thing seriously...it wasn't...
However , to correct things that really don't need correcting...

the local 47 book has TWO members with similar names
Thomas Morgan and
Tommy Morgan...

the Harmonica Morgan has (Harmonica) after it to save the OTHER T.  
Morgan from having to either keep telling callers that he isn't THAT  
Tom Morgan, OR to go out and buy a box of harps, practice nine hours  
a day for a decade or so , and try to siphon off some of Tom's  
work ......

it's not a nickname...nom de harp..whatever...

in any event some of you (and me, of course) have way too much time  
on their hands and probably could use the time spent on this  
"nickname" stuff to do constructive things....(again, me included)

PS...ANYONE who writes stuff like "I was called in to replace the  
track that XXXXX had done" on a list like this one, is showing  
exceedingly poor taste, insecurity and lack of class. It happens once  
in a while...but gentlemen don't mention it....we are professionals  
and our colleagues ....competition....are to be respected.

Jon kip...los angeles

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>     Thanks for tip Danny. You are a good friend and I
> don't really like this area we're in here BUT this Jon
> Kip (?) is wrong about a few things and I think Chris
> M. is on the money. (1) If you look in your Musician's
> Union Local 47 directory Mr. Morgan does use a handle
> "Harmonica" Morgan. (2) Even Tommy Morgan is only
> human and can't play chordally like a piano so if he
> never told a composer it can't be played on a
> harmonica he adapted it skillfully. Even Rachmaninoff
> couldn't bend a note on a piano. (3) There are some
> mighty fine musicians out
> there with handles and this is really getting petty.:
> Sonny Terry, Muddy
> Waters, "Toots" Thielemanns, Norton Buffalo, Magic
> Dick, "Dizzy" Gillespy, Stevie  Wonder, Sonny Boy
> Willimson, Little Walter, Ringo Starr. Make your own
> list. My middle name is Steven by the way. I'm not
> embarassed by it . You think Christopher Steven Smith
> is a better rockin' blues name.? Maybe Sting should
> back to Gordon Sumner.
>
>               Hammer Smith
>
>
> Chris "Hammer" Smith
> Hammer Smith Band