RE: [Harp-L] The guy over there made the mistake, not me!!!

[Buck Worley <boogalloo@xxxxxxx>]

Yep. Remember the Hee Haw Million Dollar Band? McCoy, Gimble, Roy Clark, Buddy Emmons and on and on...I think the funny part is that one of the world's most famous fiddle players made the remark as if ...
I know I have picked up the wrong one many times even when I knew the key. I always pull a boner or two if the band is tunes down a half step.
I once asked McCoy why he liked Old Standbys and he said because he could feel that guy's head and in a dark club would know that he did not have the harp upside down. Of course he was BSing me. Those old Old Standby's in G, Ab. A & Bb played great.
Bill M had a reputation of dogging out his guys if they pulled a boner like that in your story. It could have been a lot worse.

> Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2012 08:02:55 -0700
> From: dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Harp-L] The guy over there made the mistake, not me!!!
> To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> That's a really cool story and he wasn't kidding about everybody picking up the wrong harp sometimes... here's a story about picking up the wrong harp on the Grand Ol' Opry that Bill Duncan told me. 
>  
> Bill Duncan, one of the guys my late grandfather used to play music with back in the day was, for a time, one of Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys. They were on-stage at the Grand Ol' Opry and George Jones was hanging around just off stage and he was shooting the bull with Bill Duncan. Next thing Duncan knowns, he hears Monroe kick off with the mandolin AND Duncan forgot to put the capo on.  So, he slaps the capo on fast, only there is a problem - he put it on the wrong fret... and this is the Grand Ol' Opry... So Monroe kicked the song off in Bb, but thanks to George Jones' distracting personality, Duncan's guitar was in B. Monroe picks up on this right away and shifts to the key of B, but Kenny Baker fiddled his part in Bb anyway. 
> So Duncan thinks he's really going to get it after the show, but Monroe never said a word. he did have some choice words for Baker... Monroe said "I pay you guys to be world-class musicians and when that guitar is in B, by god, you better be too." 
>  
> Back to harmonica content... Gimble played fiddle in Bob Wills' Texas Playboys band, he also played fiddle on the records the Sgro brothers recorded in Nashville. He's the guy playing fiddle on that Steel Guitar Rag the Sgro brothers did and yes, it is really awesome with Gimble on the fiddle, Tony on the 48 chord and Dom on the chromatic.
> 
> David Payne
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> ________________________________
>  From: Buck Worley <boogalloo@xxxxxxx>
> To: jonkip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx 
> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 12:53 AM
> Subject: RE: [Harp-L] The guy over there made the mistake, not me!!!
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> There is a live album out there and it's been so long since I last heard it, I dont remember the name. But C McCoy started a solo and was defiantly in the wrong key. Johnny Gimble (sp?) said "That's ok Charlie, we all pick up the wrong harp sometimes". This is just one of many reasons I love to listen to live stuff. You just gotta love that. Anyone know the recording? I would love to get a copy.BW
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> > From: jonkip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2012 12:52:20 -0700
> > To: harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [Harp-L] The guy over there made the mistake, not me!!!
> > 
> > 
> > On Jun 5, 2012, at 10:27 AM, harp-l-request@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > .. I suppose that if you're doing pro session work, you do whatever it takes to always be right, otherwise someone else will get the call next time.
> > > 
> > > Of course, when in doubt, do gliss!  And don't make a weird face like I do when you land in the wrong place, just gliss some more. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the astute observation, Jon ;-).
> > > 
> > > - Slim.
> > 
> 
> >  HOWEVER, some very successful studio players I've worked with in the past 45 years or so,  have developed a "Plan A" for when they screw up a take.
> > 
> >  Note that we ALL have done that, screwing up an important take,  with the exception of whatever violin player
> > PLAN A - DEFLECT
> > Plan A is very simple... when you screw up, you look to a person close to you with that "Geesh, you missed THAT??" kind of look....You can also make some noise or
>  other, tongue clucking, putting your head in your hands shaking it in  feigned disgust at the amateurish skills of your co-worker.......whatever it takes to turn the attention elsewhere.