Re: Subject: [Harp-L] An Amazing Performance

[Rick Davis <bluesharpamps@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 9:56 PM, <EGS1217@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> It is? THAT is what you think is the 'really amazing part'?   ???!!!
> What am I missing?
>
>

Elizabeth, let me help you with what you are missing.

For anyone to win a blues competition using a small cheap solid state
practice amp is like Jeff Gordon winning Daytona driving a Hyundai.  Get it?

I know there are some harmonica players who are willfully ignorant about
amps and gear, but it is absurd to say amps are not important to good
players such as Charlie Musselwhite, Kim Wilson, Jason Ricci, Adam Gussow,
Sugar Blue, and many others.  They all choose to use excellent expensive
dedicated harp amps for reasons Elizableth evidently cannot grasp.

For a player to win a blues competition using a Fender Frontman 15 is a
testiment to his greatness as a player, and is of great interest to those of
use who admire and work with good harp amps.

Elizabeth goes on:

"If I'd been there I wouldn't have spared a thought towards what he played
through... wouldn't have noticed at all, in fact. All I'D have heard was his
 actual playing, and the effect it had on me and the audience, and whether
or not  I liked/enjoyed what I heard."

Um, Elizabeth, I wrote about all those things in the article, in the first
paragraph in fact.  Did you read it, or did your knee just jerk when you saw
it was about amps?


-Rick Davis
The Blues Harp Amps Blog
http://www.bluesharpamps.blogspot.com/