Re: [Harp-L] Re: Butter TV spot

[Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>]

Listen to Butterfield's licks. They are fast. He was the guy who started
that us.

On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Ev630 <eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Tom,
>
> Regards your quote below... A lot of harp players have said or had it said
> about them that the harp mimics a human voice in terms of expressiveness
> and
> communication of emotion. It's a pretty bold and I would think
> controversial
> statement to say that you haven't heard ANY harp player since Butterfield
> "communicate true feeling with his playing". You can't possibly mean that
> in
> a truly objective sense?
>
> I'm enjoying this analysis of Butterfield, and in that context I am asking
> this seriously.
>
> Drew
>
>
> It's that pitch range of an alto that just grabs your senses and has a
> > communicative range you can't ignore.  And that to me is one of the most
> > impressive things about Butter, espcially "late period" Butter (before
> the
> > drugs and decline of the last ten years):  His playing was so emotional;
> >  Butter's comment that the harp was "the heart's horn" was no off the
> cuff
> > remark.  He saw the instrument as potentially expressive as the human
> voice
> > and to my ears was always striving to communicate true feeling with his
> > playing.  I haven't heard anyone do this since then.  And that's what
> makes
> > him so special, and why he sits in that small circle of icons we all
> revere.
> >  TOM ELLIS/Tom's Mics
> >
> >
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