Re: [Harp-L] Overblowing all done?

[Zack <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>]

   Woah, that was a uh...big typo? hahaha. Chris Michalek...hahaha

On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 9:45 PM, Rob Paparozzi <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> "Christ" Michalek
>>
>
> Hey Chris is GOOD but "geeezzzzzzzzzzz",-))))
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Zack" <zack.pomerleau@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: "Nicholas Lovett" <lovett.nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: <Harp-L@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 7:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] Overblowing all done?
>
>
>
>  No way! Overblowing is here to stay. If you think people won't try to
>> follow
>> in the footsteps of Howard Levy, Christ Michalek, and all of the modern
>> greats I do believe you are wrong. They are just notes, it's not like they
>> are voodoo. Maybe someday people will actually understand that.
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 8, 2010 at 6:33 PM, Nicholas Lovett
>> <lovett.nicholas@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
>>
>>  They've played sweet licks.  And they've played them faster...and faster.
>>>  They've played, and played and played, till one became overstimulated.
>>> But
>>> I have to wonder, are they overblown?  Will the style of overblowing
>>> become
>>> a footnote on harmonica history, like the double tapping of EVH?  Within
>>> six
>>> months, nearly every metal guitar player had successfully mimicked the
>>> style
>>> of Eddie Van Halen.  Little Walter just won a posthumous Grammy Award
>>> more
>>> than forty years after his death, and his style continues to dominate the
>>> blues harmonica.  Mimics of overblowers, mixed into the blues scale, I
>>> think
>>> are dying out.  To stay out of the music industry,(where trends rip apart
>>> young men like a meat grinder) I got the advice to stay ahead of it...or
>>> behind it.  I am happy to say that my mix of my first EP "Nick Lovett's
>>> Shuffle" is finished.  A website, and official albums will be available
>>> ASAP.  For my first record I have assembled a crack team of the top
>>>  blues musicians in New England. (And Worldwide)  On guitar I have Paul
>>> Size, of the Red Devils, Sugar Ray and the Blue Tones, Johhny Moeller/Hoy
>>> and Mick Jagger.  On bass and second guitar, Matthew Stubbs, of his own
>>> great band, Charlie Musselwhite, John Nemeth, Junior Watson and Janiva
>>> Magness.  Rounding out, on the kit, is Chris Anzalone, one of the top
>>> drummers around.  I'll spare you the laundry list.  I haven't tried to
>>> re-invent the wheel, merely covered classics by Little Walter(Aww Baby)
>>> Jimmy Rogers(Act Like You Love Me) and Sonny Boy Williamson II(Born
>>> Blind).
>>>  I also have an original slow blues, and the title track, an Excello
>>> style
>>> instrumental, modeled after the Jerry McCain groove (She's Tuff) I will
>>> follow with coming information, and hope that we can all put the
>>> sixteenth
>>> notes behind us. I hope that by being 23 and playing this stuff as
>>> directed
>>> to me by my record collection, and my teacher Annie Raines, I am able to
>>> do
>>> something
>>>  innovative.  I sincerely hope you all give my music a chance.
>>>
>>> Thank You Harp-L in Advance,
>>> Nick Lovett
>>> Tyngsboro, Massachusetts
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> --
>> -Just Finished: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
>> -Currently Reading: Nothing, tomorrow going to pick up Brave New World,
>> only
>> a $1.50!!!
>> -Currently Writing: "Chastity's Lief Harmonica."
>>
>>
>


-- 
-Just Finished: The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway.
-Currently Reading: Nothing, tomorrow going to pick up Brave New World, only
a $1.50!!!
-Currently Writing: "Chastity's Lief Harmonica."