Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Genius? LOL/Elizabeth said nothing of the kind...

[EGS1217@xxxxxxx]

In re Bill Eborn's:
 
"Message: 2
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:50:31 +0100
From: Bill  <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Genius?  LOL
To: Ev630 <eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc:  harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx

'Elizabeth' wrote
"But who's done anything honestly  new in the last 20 years?"

I must also respectfully disagree - I think  there's lots of exciting
harmonica around at the moment.  (snipped)

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WHOA!!!!  Now hold ON a minute, Bill!   Are you quoting THIS  post?  How in 
all tarnation does 'Ev' - a/k/a EvilTweed suddenly  become 'Elizabeth'?  
 
Sheesh.  Did you somehow all this time think you were having a  discussion 
with me or the other Elizabeth?
 
EV630 is Not now and has never been 'Elizabeth' - for the record. HE's an  
Aussie who signs his posts 'Drew', and I for one have polar opposite  
positions with him on just about every issue discussed here.
 
Folks, please get your quotes correct and know to whom you're writing.  Now 
a whole lot of other people have jumped on the same 'Elizabeth said this'  
bandwagon. NO we didn't, so please correct your responses and direct them at 
 Drew.
 
Not trying to usurp the listowner's role here, but It would also  be the 
easiest for everyone to decipher posts after several  go-rounds/requoting if 
you put quote MARKS around someone  else's comments when reposting them in 
your own responses.  I've seen  far too many posts where one can't tell who 
said what because the writer simply  put someone else's remarks down and just 
left a bit of a space, as if that's  sufficient. It isn't. After several 
repetitions the posts are so muddled  the originator of the comments is long 
forgotten. Quotes solve such problems and  are the fairest and easiest way. If 
I'm able to do it, anyone should, since I'm  far from being computer savvy.
 
In re this issue (since my name has been dragged into  it), I most 
certainly vehemently disagree with Ev630/EvilTweed/Drew in re  HIS contention that 
no one's done 'anything honestly new in the last 20  years'.
 
 My short response would be: 'Jason Ricci'. Proof? Blues  aficionados have 
dumped on him more than once and still can't seem to fully make  up their 
minds whether or not to include him in their midst because his approach  is SO 
mind-bendingly innovative, different and unique they can't  quite get their 
brains around it as 
Blues, so they make up silly  categories to nominate him in. See Rob 
Paparozzi's recent post about  JR&NB's nomination for best album for the BMA 
awards about this..'RockBlues'  indeed!  
 
A longer response would include LD Miller's harmonica beat-boxing together  
with Brendan Power at last year's SPAH. Extremely new and innovative and  
completely brilliant. Those'll do for starters.  I'll save Chris Michalek  
for another post ;)
 
Elizabeth
 
"Message: 6
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:00:22 +0300
From: Ev630  <eviltweed@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Re: Genius? LOL
To: Bill  <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
Howard Levy, yes. Agree  he was groundbreaking.

But who's done anything honestly new in the last  20 years?

As for the rest how are they doing anything innovative that  they didn't
derive from other instruments or genres?

I'm not  questioning their virtuosity, I just doubt we are discussing genius
in these  instances.

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 9:41 PM, Bill  <bill.eborn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> "nobody in the field of the  harmonica currently whose breaking any new
> ground"
>
>  Howard Levy? Gregoire Maret? Brendan Power? Sebastien Charlier? Vincent
>  Bucher? Olivier ker Ourio?
>
> To name but a few - all breaking new  ground I'd have thought, all really
> distinctive....
>
>  Bill