Re: [Harp-L] Magic Dave

[Richard Hunter <turtlehill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Mick Zaklan" wrote:
<I first heard about him from Kim Field.  My memory is a little rusty but
<I think Kim told me that he, Dave, and Magic Dick all started playing around
<the same time in the same area and knew each other.

I can tell you exactly when Dave Therault began playing harp: summer 1974, after we met while I was playing a gig at the Oar and Anchor (also known as the Sore and Chancre, or the Score and Thank Her) in Falmouth, Cape Cod, Massachusetts.  Dave told me later that he was inspired by my playing, and took up harp immediately after.  So far as I know, he didn't know Magic Dick, and certainly he didn't start playing around the time Magic Dick did, which would have been sometime in the 1960s (the J. Geils band's first record was released on Atlantic records in the fall of 1970, or so I recall--it was one of the first records I bought after moving to Boston at that time).  

I took the opportunity to listen to Dave's recording of The Deb, and it is certainly a fine piece of work.  I'm pleased to have inspired Dave to take up the harp, if indeed he wasn't just humoring me, but I can tell you that he didn't get that amazing stuff from me.

Regards, Richard Hunter
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