[Harp-L] What first attracted you to harmonica? Why did

[Kevin]

I was tired of waiting around all the time for my friends to pick me up. I
was the last guy to get my license so was dependent on my buddies to get me
all the time. They were always an hour late. So I bought a harmonica. I
heard a guy in Banff National park rock it out in a park underneath a
gazebo and I asked him how he got started and he told me to listen to Sonny
Terry and just try to play what he was playing.
I also bought the Tony Glover book ya dig? Ha! Funny book full of great
advice.
A couple of worn out sonny terry tapes later I was Blowin the Fuses. Got to
blow the fuses man. Got to do it we got to do it!
Now I'm hosting the 5th Annual Shared Harvest Harmonica Retreat. Still
spaces available!

Kevin

On 4 March 2017 at 13:19, Paul Marconi <pmarcons at xxxxx> wrote:

> In the mid sixties ( I was 14- 15 ) my buddies put together a band.  I was
> the drummer. I had a cheap mylar kit that my parents gave me for
> Christmas.  As we progressed I needed to buy a real drum set.  My parents
> didn't have the money and neither did I.  So, being a huge Neil Young fan,
> I went to the local music store and bought a Blues Harp for $3.50.  I
> noodled for years, then a friend lent me a copy of "Turning Point" by John
> Mayall.  I couldn't believe that anyone could play the harp like that.  It
> was then, in 1974 that I began to really play and figure the thing out.
>
> On Sat, Mar 4, 2017 at 10:59 AM, MANFRED WEWERS <mwewers at xxxxx>
> wrote:
>
> >  I can't remember the first time I had a harmonica in my mouth. I was too
> > young to remember. I like to say that my father couldn't get a baby
> > pacifier (post-war Europe) so he stuck in his harmonica. I've been
> playing
> > ever since. Like Richard Hunter, it was Tony Glover's book that finally
> > opened my eyes to second position. Trying to play Brian Jones riffs in
> the
> > 60s in first position just didn't work.
> > Manfred
> >
>