Re: [Harp-L] Steven Tyler special harmonica

["Michael Peloquin" <peloquinharp@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: "Bob Laughlin" <rlaughlin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Link to Steven Tyler harmonica article
> Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:23:09 +1000
>
> Hmm. I read it. Anyone heard Steven Tyler play harmonica? I didn't know
> who he was, though I know of Aerosmith. What gives here? They are making
> a limited number, so it's not intended as a sales boost (and if it was,
> why 'Steven Tyler'?) I guess it's just some sort of vanity/sweetherat
> deal that's been set up by the business guy in the video. I remember
> when Johnny Shines came out to Australia in the late seventies he had a
> 'Trini Lopez' model Gibson. Now maybe Trini was a great guitar playet, I
> don't know; but he was a very big star, right around the world, and I
> suspect a lot bigger than S. Tyler. I dunno.....the world seems to get
> sillier by the moment. Wyh not a Bob Dylan model, or a Bruce Springsteen
> model, or a.....an Alanis Morisette model.......joking! just joking!
> RD

I'm sure that ST "designed" it to his rigorous expectations too.
Methinks --Big River with special cover plates, box & hype.

You would think he would have been listed as an endorser on the website, he 
is a bigger name in music than anybody else that was listed, dead or alive.

Hohner does make a great harmonica though.

Michael Peloquin
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