Re: [Harp-L] In which Gus is Summarily Dispatched to Eternal Ignominy

[joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm guilty. I once Gussed Savoy Brown. Maybe no one here has ever  
heard of them?
smo-joe

On Nov 9, 2009, at 11:07 PM, chicago bluesman wrote:

> Speak for yourself.  We are not all Gus.  I've never played harp  
> while leaning against the back of the club, in a fantasied oneness  
> with the band.  The closest experience I've had to a Gus event is  
> the time I was standing outside of B.L.U.E.S. on Halsted in  
> Chicago, simply holding a harp, and Jerry Portnoy insisted that I  
> play along with the sound of the band inside the club, so he could  
> "have a little taste".  I obliged him out on the sidewalk, in the  
> cold, but I felt weird about it.  I've seen Gus in action many  
> times, though, have decided he's a quite annoying fellow and have  
> sought to improve the image of harp players by never being a Gus  
> myself.  Someday maybe harp etiquette will permit us to bid  
> farewell to Gus, RIP.
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