Re: [Harp-L] By the way,,

[Joe and Cass Leone <leone@xxxxxxxx>]

On Apr 9, 2008, at 8:23 PM, Ken Deifik wrote:
> How did you get into playing that style in '63?

The opening riff to that tune is the classic riff. It is actually  
very similar (but shortened) to the opening riff to 'High Heel  
Sneakers'. It's an easy riff. Like the one on 'Hey Baby', 'Fannie  
Mae', or 'Western Union Man'. Easy riffs. Nothing like you guys are  
doing today.

I was born in 1942 and my harmonica playing started in 1955. I  
started on chromo FIRST. That's why I KNOW that diatonic is actually  
harder to play...well (the operative word here being..well). When I  
started playing diatonic, I was frustrated by the missing notes.  
Eventually I found out how to come up with 'some' of them. I only  
went as far as the ones I needed. In 1959, (age 17) I joined local  
802 (transients musicians local). So by 1963, I had been playing  
chromo for almost 8 years and diatonic about 5. From 1961-65, I was  
in the navy and my dive partner only listened to country-western.  
Until then, I was a pop, big band, mo-town, doo-wop, French, Latin,  
and jazz player ('some' light classical). No blues, no Celtic, no  
polkas, no country, no blue grass, no western, no Cajun, no Tex-Mex  
swing.

smo-joe