Re: [Harp-L] Pimping for Slidemeister

["Suave Blues Man" <res6k2zt@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brothers & Sisters of harp,

    Many of us are prone to tout one instrument or style. In truth the 
music is what is important. Deliver it to me in diatonic, chromatic, Blues, 
Raggae, Jazz, Caribbean, Brazilian, Maori or Swahili. I can Polka to Frankie 
Yankovic or enjoy tambura. Samisen, balalaika, tambourine, bassoon, wind 
chimes or sitar are, as they say, "music to my ears".

    And the point is? You can't be a purist is you don't embrace all of it.

    Our little corner of the music world spans a couple of octaves. And 
even within the one genre of diatonic we have several styles of Blues, 
(Chicago, Delta and Piedmont et alia), and a host of performers that defy 
definition save to say that they are ALL good.

    The truck ads, the Country and Western tuning, the deLay, the 
Thielemans', the Chmels', Paparozzi's and a few hundred others whom come to 
mind. Not one of them is all of the instrument but every one of them is the 
music.

    Be a part of it and not apart of it.

Be Blues...And Jazz,

Suave Blues Man

Ref.:
http://www.harmonicasessions.com/oct06/Yerxa.html
http://www.slidemeister.com/
http://www.angelfire.com/music/HarpOn/
http://www.coast2coastmusic.com/chromatic/index.shtml
http://www.dh3.com/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyNr-NZ5Pc0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzY_KZTSXJk
http://www.adlertrio.com/
http://www.bassharp.com/tom-tony.htm
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCKE3rVVthM

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "James Sterett" <jsterett@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <hqr@xxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 9:09 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Pimping for Slidemeister


> Gary, sounds like you're a pretty good harmonica player... harmonica 
> spokesman, not so much.  I'm a diatonic player aspiring to improve on 
> chromatic (and everything, always,) looking for direction, resources and a 
> healthy dose of open mindedness. Your representation of slidemeister in 
> that clip did not give me the impression that I could find much of any of 
> that there.  With so many harmonica players that have done and are doing 
> fantastic, unprecedented and never thought of before things with a 
> diatonic, a comparison trying to display the "weaknesses" of a diatonic is 
> futile.  No need for one side or another.  Blow me away with the chrome. 
> Straight up what can that baby do compared to nothing, because there's 
> nothing like it.  That will intrigue me.
>
> Jim.
> www.myspace.com/mulegroove
>
> > > > "Clayton Gary Lehmann" <hqr@xxxxxxx> 03/13/09 5:24 PM >>>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MlnK2sa7mm4
>
> It is what it is, come on over to the Slide side
>
> http://www.slidemeister.com <http://www.slidemeister.com/>
>
> Gary
>
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