Re: [Harp-L] Inapproriate playing

[Rick Dempster <rick.dempster@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I never ask to sit in.The one exception was thirty odd years ago, and I
asked if I could sit in for a song or two with a band I was familiar with,
and admired.
The guys in the band were very nice about it, but you could see the
reluctance in their eyes. I was probably fifteen or twenty years younger
than them.
When they finally called me up, I pulled out the harps, and discovered to
my horror that they were out of pitch with the band, which, I might add,
included a steel guitar player with two
necks of ten strings apiece. So then I bowed out, feeling like a real fool,
and that somehow fate had dealt me a well deserved blow for my presumption.
Years later, I got to know and play with some of these people
professionally.. They didn't appear to recall me from the past, and I never
got around to reminding them.
RD

On 6 November 2012 13:30, Kevin Hamilton <kham27@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Harmonica players have enough stacked against them?
>
> I've never heard anyone say anything bad about harmonica players before.
> Please elaborate.
>
> On 4 November 2012 23:55, James D Hoskins <jameshoskinz@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> > I just received an email from a friend who evidently reads harpL but
> > doesn't as far as I know participate in these discussions. He is a
> working
> > pro player, records, has written a couple of books, and is a name most of
> > you would know and respect. He had a point we all should consider:
> > "You are so right - it is disrespectful and gives all harp players a bad
> > name. We don't need this crap."
> >
> > Harmonica players have enough stacked against them.
> >
> >
>



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