[Harp-L] Re: Closed Doors/JJ Milteau (Bill Hines)

["geoff atkins" <geoffatkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Bill Hines <billhines4@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Closed Doors/JJ Milteau
I didn't care for that - he was wailing too much over the vocals.
Nice harp playing, but that kind of grated on me.
Bill
Rick Dempster wrote:
> Anyone seen this clip?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B1fpUIH9t8I&feature=related

I my book, JJ Milteau is of the highest rank of players.
(That's like saying Tiger Woods is quite good at golf! )
The video was too short to allow an opinion to be formed whether in fact the
singers were being stomped on, or whether they were intruding on a harp
solo. The style of playing did initially indicate accompaniment though.

It's surely happened to all of us that cueing sometimes fails and a conflict
arises. JJM backed off politely , after 55 seconds there is no harp at all. 
There may have been a flaw, but isn't that why we play a harp, and play live
music?. If you want perfection on every occasion, then a midi file will
repeat it time after time.

still 98 cents left.. Geoff