Re: [Harp-L] chromatic solo (rob)

[Rob Paparozzi <chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Wow..that is something David! I could understand the guitar players feelings, we work so hard to sound good and practice our buns off and then told to "dumb it down"….a part of this job I really don't like but I guess goes with the turf….

I found this video of a Cable TV session I did….me & the accordion player only got the chart a few days before….The Writer-Guitarist wrote an interesting song and wanted different 'textures' on the Harmonica so I used Bass as the beginning and end and Diatonic and Chromatic in the middle to change it up….The sound quality is poor here but you get the idea….a fun challenge…Mark is a great Composer/Player and used to play on the road w/ Shania Twain back in the 90's….

Custard's 2nd to last Stand - Marc Muller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUaLQY7EXq0

and again, I found a less glorious clip,-)
a wacky NYC cable show I did….where I had to sandwich fast country licks in between Denis Leary's cigarette puffs!,-))) Yikes!

Afterdrive Cable show:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6pELYEa3EM

best,
Rob Paparozzi


On Apr 20, 2014, at 10:19 AM, David Naiditch <davidnaiditch@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I agree that musicians should take a supportive role whenever somebody is taking the lead, whether it is a singer or another instrument.  As Rob demonstrated, the goal should always be to make that lead soloist sound as good as possible.  I only responded (and I regretted responding the moment I hit the Send button) because I recently encountered a great guitarist who walked off a good paying recording job when told to hold back and play no better than the “star” harmonica player (who was rather mediocre).  The guitarist is very well known and they probably wanted to use his name to add legitimacy to the project. 
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>> The "rule"  certainly doesn't mean that as a sideman, you play less well during your solo bits (I'm told that Bluegrass folk call it a "break", but that's probably only to confuse the rest of the world when the leader tells them to take a break) ....it's more pointed at the stuff like Rob showed us , where he's playing behind a vocalist...the fills..... those things need to have their place behind the soloist..... nobody is saying that your top bluegrass virtuosos should hold back, unless,( and this would be interesting indeed)  you are singing, and they are doing fills behind you.... while I've not heard you sing, and don't want to make snap judgements this time of night, I believe that the number of vocals by you,  on your upcoming CD is going to be less than One, when rounded off to the nearest zero, and that, once again, just for spite, you'll be proving that you can play faster and more cleanly than I can. I suspect that that is the main purpose of this cd, which, by th!
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>> there are some flaws in my logic above, but it's late, and I'm hiding some easter eggs for myself when I get up tomorrow.
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