[Harp-L] Ever have a harmonica stuck to your tongue? I just did

[David Payne <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This is how you can tell it is cold in West Virginia right now. Long story short, I covered Jason RIcci's concert here in Parkersburg Friday for the newspaper (story is here: http://www.newsandsentinel.com/page/content.detail/id/501348.html?nav=5056) and I didn't have time to upload the Jason RIcci pics on the photo web site we've got. So, I go in at the paper around midnight tonight to upload those photos and turn my time sheet, which I forgot Saturday. Just before I left the house, I finished a custom job for myself, this really sweet old Marine Band. As I pull in, I put the Marine Band on the console. 
I didn't think I'd be there long, but it takes me about an hour of screwing around with these Fred Flintstone computers we've got to get the Jason Ricci photos uploaded. I come back out to the car, see the Marine Band and think, I'd love to hear one of those sweet IV Chord octaves, I put it up to my lips, tongue block the 2 and 3 holes, blow the octave and try to lift my tongue off for the I chord, but my tongue won't come off. I take my hand off the harp, just to see if it will dangle from my tongue by itself ---- and it does. First thing that came to mind was the flagpole scene in "A Christmas Story" I could go inside work and get it warmed up, but instead of subjecting myself as forever being known as the guy who came in with a harp stuck to his tongue, I just kind of pried it off. 

I don't know why I did that, I always warm harps up before I play. I guess we all make mistakes sometimes, it's just some mistakes make you feel more like a jackass than others. 

The Jason Ricci photos are at the link below. It was like taking pictures in a cave, the pics are dark, using natural light, ISA 1600 and above, ap 2.8, shutter 250, about the slowest shutter you can use on Jason cause he moves so much. 
http://cu.newsandsentinel.com/pages/gallery.php?gallery=301854

Dave

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Dave Payne Sr. 
Elk River Harmonicas 
www.elkriverharmonicas.com