Re: [Harp-L] Has "Dueling Banjos" ever been performed on harmonica?

["Steve Rowse" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

- not just tips either. I used to play with a pretty predictable blues band. 
They were OK, but it was the same old same old setwise. A year or two ago we 
did a gig in a pub in Kent. We were just packing up when a guy came up and 
offered us a hundred quid to play Hoochie Coochie Man again. Suddenly we 
weren't so tired any more. Suddenly I wasn't bored with playing the same 
riff 64 times punctuated by guitar solos. I guess he was trying to impress 
the girl he was with. Hope it worked.

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Captron100@xxxxxxx>
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Sent: Monday, April 30, 2007 6:23 PM
Subject: [Harp-L] Has "Dueling Banjos" ever been performed on harmonica?


> In a message dated 4/30/2007 9:20:47 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, marc 
> writes:
>
> Does anyone play this or has anyone heard it performed?
>
>   Some folks avoid performing certain songs that they feel are 
> overplayed.
> Mustang Sally was one such song mentioned when this thread  came up on 
> Harp-L
> a few months ago.  Most venues around where i  live, (unfortunately for 
> me),
> have crowds who want to hear the same old  stuff, or who want to dance to 
> the
> same old stuff.  Mustang Sally gets them  on the dance floor, as Duelin'
> Banjos often does.  The other point in that  thread was that playing these 
> songs
> generate tips.
>  I play Duelin' Banjos with 2 different guys -- one is with  a guitarist,
> and the other is with a banjoist.  We have fun with it and the  crowd 
> loves it.
> On a diatonic, it requires a 5 hole overblow, or a  harp switch mid -song,
> which the audience finds amusing.  Myself, i  usually use a standard 
> diatonic
> and a country tuned harp.
>  Friends of mine, the Doerfel Family Bluegrass Band, take DB to  an even
> greater level by throwing in snippets of well known rock  songs.  The band 
> is
> tight; it sounds great and increases everyone's  interest, including that 
> of the
> musician's.
>
> ron
>
>
>
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