Re: [Harp-L] Link to Steven Tyler harmonica article

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

* Please note: The pre-requisite.....It's only my opinion. (smo-joe)

On Jul 10, 2007, at 8:23 PM, Rick Dempster wrote:

> Hmm. I read it.

I read it and spit ginger snap particles all over my Inter-Rossiter.

> Anyone heard Steven Tyler play harmonica?

Yup. Underwhealmed I was.

> I didn't know who he was, though I know of Aerosmith. What gives here?

Here's the deal. Hohner is obviously putting a lot more credence into  
name recognition than expertise.

> They are making a limited number, so it's not intended as a sales  
> boost (and if it was,
> why 'Steven Tyler'?)

Yeah, what you said  lol

> 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.

Also a little 'Reachey'. You would think a guitar would be named  
after someone who was at the Mount Chimborazo of guitar players.

> Now maybe Trini was a great guitar playet,

Huh uh

> I don't know; but he was a very big star, right around the world,

Which I never understood.

> 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!

It gets ridiculoser and ridiculoser. Now, don't get me wrong. If  
someone were to name even a bag of 'Kitty Litter' after ME, I would  
be thrilled to death, but this whole deal is a fiasco.
smokey-joe

> RD