Re: [Harp-L] Sugar Blue on alternate tunings

[Gary Lehmann <gnarlyheman@xxxxxxxxx>]

http://hlitgroup.org/reads/TheMarchingMorons.pdf
No harmonica content, I bet . . .

On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 7:43 AM, John F. Potts <hvyj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Here's an excerpt from the Sugar Blue interview I was referring to and
> which was the subject of recent comment by Mr. Hunter:
>
> Steve:Do you use any specially tuned harmonicas?
>
> Sugar:No, man I don't cop out.That is equipment for cop-out artists.I can't
> stand that crap!If you wnat to play something that is not on the harp, and
> you don't have it in your head and in your chops, it seems like everyone
> wants to take the "easy" or lazy way out these days.These special tunings
> keep people from really studing to come up with something new.Special
> tunings are nothing but garbage!It is like music made easy have you ever
> read that sci-fi story "Marching Morons"?They give everyone a scalpel that
> was special made and they instantly became a great physician!I have messed
> around with them and they are cute, but why mess around with something that
> has been right since Adam and Eve.Leave them alone!I am an old head man.If
> you want to do new things, you have got to dig deeper into the faith the
> more research listening and playing that you do about yesterday, the more
> you are going to find out about tomorrow.
>
> Here's the link for the entire interview (which was conduced in 1994 when
> SB may have been lost in space): http://bluzharp.tripod.com/sugar.html
>
> Not saying that I necessarily agree with him, but when SB talks about harp,
> i generally listen pretty closely.  I am a really big SB fan.  If you want
> to know why, check out the MP3 album called "Another Man Done Gone"
>  available on Amazon.  It's a compilation of all the cuts from his long out
> of print first two albums released in France on the Blue Silver label.
>  Incredible stuff!
>
> JP
>