Re: R: [Harp-L] music

["Ben FELTEN [ML]" <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It's interesting, because that's not my experience.

Lately, I've had opportunities to play with a trad jazz and a gypsy jazz 
outfit, and both bands told me that they thought what I was doing 
sounded really good even though it didn't sound like blues.

I know that what I did was not high quality stuff, although clearly 
playing with the trad guys was a lot more accessible to me at my level 
than playing with the gypsy jazz guys. But I'm not a pro and I rarely 
even have time to practice these days. But while I don't consider what I 
do to be good enough, I can only see that what I do is different to 95% 
of what other diatonic harmonica players do.

I don't consider that to be stretching out, by the way, just using the 
harp as an instrument (as you said) as opposed to using it as a blues 
frontrunner.

I think that ultimately the audience doesn't care as long as it's good 
music. Other musicians might care because the mental image of 
instruments is a lot more important to musicians than it is to anyone else.

And by the who ever said that you couldn't play rock leads like a guitar 
? Not only can you, but it sounds shit hot when done well !

(I guess I don't have to point you to BT's Stand to prove my point...)

Benoit
> One of the fellow Italian Stallions on the board kindly asked a clarifying question about my previous post and here was my respones:
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> People don't care about harmonica....they don't necessarily care about me either (lol), but my point is that people don't like harmonica like they like guitar.  ;)
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> Pushing the enevelope on harp can often make you even less accessible.  There are much "easier" insturments to gig with successfully.
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