RE: [Harp-L] MAMA Band

["Bill Hines" <billhines4@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually based on the comments, I expected this to be pretty bad, and
admittedly the first song Papa Was a Ghetto Star sounded like he got way
over his head on the harp on that one with what he tried to do. But the
rest of them (and even the first song other than the harp) are pretty
good songs. I rather liked the band. He shows some good skills on the
other songs so if anyone stopped after the first one they might not have
heard the better harp playing. 

As far as their blues content/influences, well I hear it in the other
songs too more than the first. But let's not forget, you *could* hear
the blues in the earlier stuff from Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Stones, Steve
Miller, etc. But not so much after they evolved into their eventual more
popular rock sounds. They took it and turned it into something else,
nuttin' wrong with that.

They rock and I'm glad to hear the young set bringin' the harp back. The
young guy in the youtube Chris Michalek linked to was a pretty cool dude
too, pretty damn good for playing less than a year and obviously a
dedicated student of the instrument.

This is encouraging stuff, it makes me feel good. Now if only I could
play to my own aspirations, haha.

Bill Hines

-----Original Message-----
From: harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:harp-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Rick Dempster
Sent: Tuesday, March 10, 2009 9:54 PM
To: Rick Davis; Harp-L
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] MAMA Band

I listened to songs on their Myspace site:
http://www.myspace.com/mamatheband  To be honest Rick, what I heard just
sounded like very basic playing with varying degrees of distortion.
Nothing new about it that I could hear...maybe you were listening to
something else..? RD