Re: [Harp-L] Harmonica cutting contest at SPAH

["Chris Michalek" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope nobody cries from the head cutting.  That would be so mean!!!!





>-----Original Message-----
>From: George Brooks [mailto:gbrooksvt@xxxxxxxxxxx]
>Sent: Thursday, July 26, 2007 05:43 PM
>To: 'Harp-L'
>Subject: [Harp-L] Harmonica cutting contest at SPAH
>
>Phil Lloyd proposes a cutting contest for SPAH.  It's up to the 
>organizers, of course, but it does not sound like a good idea to me.  
>SPAH is all about collaboration and learning.  Cutting contests are all 
>about establishing dominance.  They are a form of ritualized combat.
>
>In the bebop era, men were broken.  I don't know if it is true or not, 
>but it is part of the lore that Sonny Rollins's wife would not let him 
>go to the cutting contests of the day for fear that he would be 
>humiliated and that the blow to his confidence would end his career.  
>On his way up, Jimi Hendrix was said to have played so aggressively, so 
>inventively, and so tirelessly that he literally played lesser 
>guitarists off the stage.
>
>I think at SPAH you're going to see LD Miller and Jason Ricci showing 
>each other what they know.  I don't think you're going to see them try 
>to cut each other for the title of Fastest Player or Best Player.  At 
>least I hope not.
>
>George
>
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