Re: [Harp-L] Wherefore art thou Gus?

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

 Didn't it start out by using the adjective "gussing" to describe that drunk guy in the audience who pulls his harmonica out of his pocket and starts to play along with the performing band? 

Busking = playing in the subways or street corners

Gussing = playing harmonica when not invited to

 

 

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From: Winslow Yerxa <winslowyerxa@xxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 12:45 pm
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"Gus" was just a name that came up early in the life of harp-l when discussing 
unwelcome harmonica players at live performances. There were some attempts to 
change it as it might be unfair to harmonica players actually named Gus. But 
somehow the name stuck.

Gus and his gusts of misdirected hot air. Gus gushing with misplaced 
self-confidence and self-importance.

Someone else opined that the Gus tag applied only to people who played from the 
audience. However, that is not the case.

>From the very beginning, Gus has been any unwelcome harmonica player at a live 
performance, whether he (or she) played from the audience or managed to wangle 
or force their way onstage. By implication, Gus is both musically challenged and 
socially challenged and seems unaware of both of these facts, blithely making a 
mess of the music and making himself unwelcome by both performers and audience, 
and often he quickly turns resentful at how badly he is then treated.

Winslow

Winslow Yerxa

Author, Harmonica For Dummies ISBN 978-0-470-33729-5

--- On Mon, 11/9/09, Clayton Gary Lehmann <hqr@xxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Clayton Gary Lehmann <hqr@xxxxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Wherefore art thou Gus?
To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Monday, November 9, 2009, 8:19 AM

At the risk of going meta-

Who was Gus? Why Gus? Why not Bogart or Ahab or something?

Curious Gary

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