[Harp-L] Gussing Savoy Brown

[Mojo Red <harplicks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe.... "Never heard of Savoy Brown?" Are you kidding? 

"A Step Further" is one of my all-time favorite albums from that era. The song, Made up My Mind absolutely kills to the bone to this day. Youlden and Simmonds had such a cool, tough sound. 

And you gussed them? For shame... for shame... 
Still, I know they really played loud, so it's very likely no one could hear you play. I'll let you off the hook this time. :-)

Harpin' in Colorado,
--Ken M. 
TeraBlu Band on My Space
http://www.myspace.com/terablu



----- Original Message ----
From: joe leone <3n037@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: chicago bluesman <chicagobluesman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Mon, November 9, 2009 9:56:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] In which Gus is Summarily Dispatched to Eternal Ignominy

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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