RE: [Harp-L] band drinking, minimal harp content

["Bradford Trainham" <bradford.trainham@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And then there's the chord harp.  I already can't see.  I'd probably "put
someone's eye out" if I drank and tried to play that thing.
Brad Trainham
 

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Of joe leone
Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8:10 PM
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Subject: Re: [Harp-L] band drinking, minimal harp content


On Jan 6, 2010, at 8:51 PM, steve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>
> I don't play better drunk, but I do play better after drinking. I have 
> almost always had something to drink when I play, but not to excess.  
> I  usually have one before starting, then sip one each set. I don't 
> think 3-4 drinks in a span of 3-4 hours is too much. I feel I am less 
> inhibited on solos if I have a couple of drinks. I struggle with 
> "performance anxiety" even after all these times in
> front of people. Alcohol tones that down.   If I do drink too much,  
> and I have at parties,etc.  my playing is really ragged.   Any band  
> I have ever played in has had members who drank at least a small 
> amount, but I can't imagine anyone keeping a band member who was 
> regularly wasted.
>
> Steve Webb in Minn., where the band I was in no longer exists and I 
> have hardly played harp in the past six months.
>
I found that a couple drinks has little or no affect on my diatonic, but
chromo? Whoaaaaaa, Don't even THINK you can play a chrom half stewed as a
prune.

smo-joe
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