[Harp-L] Gussaholics Annonymous

[icemanle@xxxxxxx]

 Hello, my name is Larry Eisenberg ("Hello, Larry Eisenberg) and I have Gussed.

Early on, it was a bad case of egotism and no concern for those around me. Although my Gussing sounded pretty darn good, it was still uninvited playing.

My last public Gussing was in 1996, at a Kim Wilson's Blues Review show in Detroit - at the Majestic Theatre. Kim was doing his 1st position high end acoustic playing and walking off stage into the audience. I was at the back of the show and was playing along, trying to steal his "feel" for these high end ideas.

Since then, I've attended the Gus 12 Step Program. Although I'm taking it one day at a time, I no longer have the urge to Gus.

Thank you.


 

 

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From: chicago bluesman <chicagobluesman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx; billhines4@xxxxxxxxx
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Sent: Mon, Nov 9, 2009 11:07 pm
Subject: RE: [Harp-L] In which Gus is Summarily Dispatched to Eternal Ignominy











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.