[Harp-L] Famous Harmonica Players (John Popper)

[Boris Plotnikov]

John Popper is number one player for me today. Despite high-pitch approach
to timber and notes, not extensive overblow using he is extra special and
unique player, who is not easy to imitate. Listening to Popper always
motivate me to play along with him.

вт, 29 янв. 2019 г. в 19:12, Richard Hunter <rhunter377 at xxxxx>:

> The Iceman wrote:
> oh Richard.....touched a nerve, did I?
> (tee hee).
>
> Not really.  I just get very, very tired of harmonica players complaining,
> on the one hand, that the harmonica and the people who play it don't get no
> respect, and on the other hand relentlessly bashing the one serious
> harmonica player in the last 20 years who actually achieved a high degree
> of mass interest by taking a very innovative approach to the instrument.
>
> Can't have it both ways, man. A few weeks ago people were saying on this
> list that the best-known harmonica players are, to put it bluntly, not very
> accomplished on the instrument: Dylan, Jagger, Young, etc. etc.  Popper is
> accomplished on the instrument--try to play what he plays and you'll find
> that out in half a minute.  And yet all he gets for it from most harp
> players is "that's not Little Walter."
>
> Wishing that your favorite blues player had the kind of mass recognition
> that Popper has achieved doesn't cut it.  The audience voted.  He won.
>
> Regards, Richard Hunter
>
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> Lucky One" at https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/richardhunter
>
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Thanks, Boris Plotnikov
http://borisplotnikov.ru