[Harp-L] Coltrane and Whammer Jammer

[martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for clarifications about Coltranes relation to "Whammer Jammer". As I suspected it is, if not non-existent, rather of an indirect kind.
  "Coltrane" is something you can use to bestow some sort of value on a supposedly humble blues harp track; a symbolic linking to what the cognoscenti feel is "greatness"  (same goes for "Miles Davis"), and therefore explaining the exact what/where? of the influence can be a bit tricky.
  No poor reflection here on Magic D and his surely excellent pedigree in both harmonica playing and the academe; I think he´s just more or less unwittingly expressing an (unnecessary) need for prestige.
  Jimmy Reed wouldn´t otherwise be a half bad influence for high note playing, or, roughly,  2541 pre-war 1 pos players, but The Boogie-man et al somehow doesn´t ring as impressively. 
 
  Cheers,
  Martin
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>From: THOMAS FIACCO <mx714@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [Harp-L] Over-blow survey/Coltrane

>And don't forget-Magic Dick's "Whammer Jammer" was derived from some of Coltranes >licks.

>>From: martin oldsberg <martinoldsberg@xxxxxxxxx>
>>Could you be a little more specific here? Which Coltrane licks? Where in "Whammer >>Jammer"?
>> Curiously,
>> Martin
 
 
>>>From: THOMAS FIACCO <mx714@xxxxxxxxxxx>

>>>Magic Dick states in an online interview with Adam Gussow that he got the ided for >>>high register solos
>>>directly from Coltrane-he did not get specific on what song-just that he got the idea >>>from him
 
>>>>We are talking about someone who started playing harp at 3 years old, attended >>>>Worchester Polytechnic Institute,toured the world with The J. Geils Band,and is >>>>currently in the process on marketing his own line of harmonics. I doubt it's >>>>conjuncture.