Re: [Harp-L] Musicianship ... Process based or results based?2

[Grant Walters <grant@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks so much for posting this...
I live a few miles down the road from neil...He lives on an amazing ranch.
The guy puts on private concerts in a roadhouse bar here before he goes on tour.
You get a call from a friend and a colored bracelet gets you in...very hush hush.  Free too.
His band uses vintage tweed fender amps and the sound guy just takes that sound and mixes it perfectly...
not loud...just perfect...
He has a way of taking it down to it's funky core...

I never want to cover his tunes...
but whenever we do...
people love to sing along.
With Neil it is about being a little off key...
like some blues players ...it adds tension and emotion...
Not everybody digs it.....I love the guy.

At this time...he used to come into the little country restaurants and play harmonica with the dishwashers ( Little Steven up on Skyline got quite good).
Saw Steve Earle this summer and he had the same harp for effect kind of thing going...folky funky...not trying too hard..
He is worth seeing.
Grant




James Taylor and Carol King will be touring this summer together.




On Feb 11, 2010, at 3:44 PM, JohnnieHarp wrote:

> A couple of clips that are interesting in terms of the “Tool Envy”
> technique type discussions that arise from time to time and more
> specifically musicianship and what it is.
> 
> Is it the tool used or the final “build” that counts? I'm sure both
> sides can and will be argued ...
> 
> Neil Young begins at 3:40 of this 1971 vid and infers that he's either
> beginning to play harmonica or beginning to play using a holder when
> guitaring ... rummages in his pocket for the right one ... are in the
> cardboard box ... in any case, his choice is to add shading / colour
> to the picture ... or is it?
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VtFUG0irTQ
> 
> Secondly, a fledgling piano player I'll nickname “Two Chord James”
> admits and prepares his audience and the piano manufacturer rep that
> he knows two chords and apologizes in advance.
> 
> Again, the tool, the tooler or the “build”?
> 
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI7G5M03HU0
> 
>