Re: [Harp-L] An Apology

["Emile D'Amico" <edamico@xxxxxxx>]

Good to hear someone is keeping the music alive.
I'll look for you guys now that I know you guys have
harmonica.

I'm playing World Music now with a guy from Spain.
http://www.buddhasgarden.net/index.php?topic=1262.0
This a tune from our demo. I have a ton of stuff up
there. You can even find some Diggs Blues stuff:)


>>> dick lightfoot <dlightfoot12@xxxxxxxxxxx> 02/24/08 18:34 PM >>>
hey diggs -

it was at Lickety Split at 4th and South.  Our band Buck Hunter and the Pig City Porkrollers gets occasional gigs in philly at places like that. We do a very eclectic mix of acoustic "stuff" that kinda blends blues, folk, bluegrass, americana, and old-timey stuff together.  We mainly do it for our own enjoyment, which is a good thing, as you sure as hell aren't going to find any paying gigs doing that kind of stuff, not around Philly anyway...  

It would seem that a culture has evolved in the city where people who play this kind of stuff have to do it basically for free, with maybe getting a cut of the door (if there even is any cover) or a percentage of the bar receipts for the night.  I basically do it just because it's fun and I get enough money to pay for the gasand a meal and get a couple of free beers out of it.  Plus I get to act like a hillbilly for a few hours (bonus!). This usually occurs about once a month, it's pretty hard to find a venue more often than that...

I've heard your Diggs Blues a number of times in the now quite-distant past. I always liked your sound, particularly your chrom stuff.  Not the same old same old, by any means...

harp on, Diggs...

dl

-------------- Original message -------------- 
From: "Emile D'Amico" <edamico@xxxxxxx> 

> Where was this on South St.? 
> I thought music was just about dead there. 
> I used to play South St. Blues With my band Diggs Blues 'till the new owners 
> screwed it up. 
> 
> Emile Diggs D'Amico 
> 
> >>> "Evan Meagher" 02/23/08 21:10 PM >>> 
> Harp-L'ers, 
> 
> I want to apologize to the harmonica player at the bar on South Street in 
> Philly last night- long story short, I had rolled in there with a few 
> friends after *many* adult beverages and heard a guy blowing some pretty 
> good harp. My friends, unfamiliar with the concept of the Gus, asked him if 
> I could sit in using his harps (a request I would never make or grant). I 
> didn't catch his name, but he said he recognized my name (presumably from 
> this list, which surprised me to say the least) so I thought this was the 
> best place to issue an apology. By the by, the dude blew a great sounding 
> harp. 
> 
> Ev 
> 
> p.s. speaking of dudes, I just got my blue dude harp in E from Steve Grimm, 
> and as always, it is awesome. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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