Re: [Harp-L] Playing what people want to hear

[BiscuitBoy714@xxxxxxx]

I'm with you  about playing what you like, but I like some of that stuff 
'cause I grew up  playing it. I even got paid to do some of them when they were 
still hot on the  charts. I'm a singer though and I like to play rock on guitar, 
I'm not really  good enough at playing the blues on guitar so mostly I don't. 
I'd do it  differently though, and I'm working on trying to pull this off. My 
set list  would be......Alex Harvey, Frank Zappa, Little Feet, then one of 
mine. J Geils,  Humble Pie, Wet Willie, then another one of mine and so on. 
Second set would be  mostly blues like Red Rooster, Hip Shake thing and so on 
mixed with  the blues I have written. I would absolutely refuse to play anything 
that was  killed off by radio exposure. No Free Bird, Stairway to Heaven, Long 
Train  Runnin' or anything like that. I WOULD do a male version of Piece OF  
My Heart maybe. Blues oriented classic rock kind of stuff to get us in the  
door, and then kill 'em with the good stuff. To each their own my  brutha, I like 
doing all blues too, but this way I could throw in my  originals a lot 
easier. 
        BiscuitBoy Blues
           Randy
 
In a message dated 4/2/2007 4:37:36 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
samblancato@xxxxxxxxxxx writes:

Throughout the death of/reemergence of live music thread I've read  several
people saying that you have to play what people already know and  even that
you have to play classic rock.  If I felt this is what I had  to do then I
would just quit even trying to play out.  I wouldn't set  foot in a club ever
again.  I play harmonica, people.  I don't  want to play classic rock.  If I
want to hear classic rock then I'll  put some on the CD player and listen to
it.  Who would wants to hear  some schmuck covering The Who or Pink Floyd.
Seriously, I play blues  because it's what I think sounds best on the harp
and what just feels good  to play.  If this means I'm shooting my own foot
off then that's what  I'm going to do.  I heard Kim Wilson interviewed once
where he said he  didn't care if he was the last one on earth playing what he
plays, that he  was going to keep playing it anyway.  I'm with Kim.



Sam  Blancato, Pittsburgh  








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