[Harp-L] Harp-L Digest, Vol 247, Issue 1
Doug Parrish
mtnbluz@xxxxx
Tue Mar 12 20:58:57 EDT 2024
Hi Harp L,
I've been lurking here for at least 16 years and enjoying the posts though I haven't posted in over a decade. This is the most recent one I've received. ( Vol 247, Issue 1) I wonder if because of recent e mail issues on my end I am still on your list or have missed mail from Harp L? I did contribute when Slim put out a notice a month or two ago. I've always been eager to read what's on everyone's mind in the harp community. I play mostly chromatics now and am well aged @ 82, but I do still play every day and keep learning most of the positions. three or four are not as fluent but I'm the only one harping about it.. Thank you, Doug OldFolky Parrish
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Today's Topics:
1. My Experience with Ableism in the Harmonica Community (Amy Rister)
2. Re: My Experience with Ableism in the Harmonica Community
(Clarke Comollo)
3. player passing (Mick Zaklan)
4. Wireless Question (Bob Cohen)
5. Re: player passing (Jack "Applejack" Walroth) (Michael Peloquin)
6. William Clarke biography on the Happy Hour Harmonica podcast
(Neil Warren)
7. Fred Sonnen (othornhill at xxxxx)
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Message: 1
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 17:58:31 -0500
From: Amy Rister <amyrister02 at xxxxx>
To: harp-l at xxxxx
Subject: [Harp-L] My Experience with Ableism in the Harmonica
Community
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I'm very nervous right now as I haven't posted in a while and wondering how
are people going to react to me now because I was bullied off the forum the
first time I was in here. People haven't been the most kind to me,
especially the certain type of harmonica player whom thinks that I'm
mentally unwell, I should learn to "control" my disabilities or everybody
should ignore me just because I have an experience that this type of player
never had to deal with. Ableism is in every community, including the
harmonica sphere. I feel like I'm the only one who experiences this type of
hate. I'm not baiting or manipulating anything or anyone, but I have to be
strong and not to refer anybody who bullied me by name.
>From the many players on this forum that I've met prior on Facebook have
told me that I should go to dangerous therapies that will cause me trauma,
to quit thinking about my special interest, to give up the instrument
because I'd hyperfixate on my favorite player or I found his stuff too be
very difficult months before I met my teacher, that I should play like a
certain artist because he's "more successful" than my favorite or more
"bluesy" than him, that I should work a "normal job" and not be a musician
or file for disability because I appear to be "high functioning", and I
even got called the R slur because I don't like a popular song that the
general public liked. I wish to be treated as an equal and even though some
people out there are nice, I've met more mean people more than the nice
ones.
To the people that my mom sent emails because you were complaining about me
and my disability, either be nice to me or don't interact with my posts. I
shouldn't have to mask myself for your pleasure nor be talked to as if I'm
a baby. To everybody else, I hope you have a nice day.
Sincerely,
Amy Rister
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Message: 2
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2024 19:19:21 -0500
From: Clarke Comollo <comollo at xxxxx>
To: Amy Rister <amyrister02 at xxxxx>
Cc: harp-l at xxxxx
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] My Experience with Ableism in the Harmonica
Community
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Hi Amy
Harp on
> On Feb 18, 2024, at 5:58?PM, Amy Rister <amyrister02 at xxxxx> wrote:
>
> I'm very nervous right now as I haven't posted in a while and wondering how
> are people going to react to me now because I was bullied off the forum the
> first time I was in here. People haven't been the most kind to me,
> especially the certain type of harmonica player whom thinks that I'm
> mentally unwell, I should learn to "control" my disabilities or everybody
> should ignore me just because I have an experience that this type of player
> never had to deal with. Ableism is in every community, including the
> harmonica sphere. I feel like I'm the only one who experiences this type of
> hate. I'm not baiting or manipulating anything or anyone, but I have to be
> strong and not to refer anybody who bullied me by name.
> From the many players on this forum that I've met prior on Facebook have
> told me that I should go to dangerous therapies that will cause me trauma,
> to quit thinking about my special interest, to give up the instrument
> because I'd hyperfixate on my favorite player or I found his stuff too be
> very difficult months before I met my teacher, that I should play like a
> certain artist because he's "more successful" than my favorite or more
> "bluesy" than him, that I should work a "normal job" and not be a musician
> or file for disability because I appear to be "high functioning", and I
> even got called the R slur because I don't like a popular song that the
> general public liked. I wish to be treated as an equal and even though some
> people out there are nice, I've met more mean people more than the nice
> ones.
> To the people that my mom sent emails because you were complaining about me
> and my disability, either be nice to me or don't interact with my posts. I
> shouldn't have to mask myself for your pleasure nor be talked to as if I'm
> a baby. To everybody else, I hope you have a nice day.
>
> Sincerely,
> Amy Rister
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Message: 3
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 10:18:12 -0600
From: Mick Zaklan <mzaklan at xxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l at xxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] player passing
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Sorry to report the passing of blues harpist Jack "Applejack" Walroth
recently. Jack, along with guys like Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite
and Corky Siegel, was in that first wave of young white harmonica players
to hit the blues clubs on Chicago's Southside and learn the music. In the
mid 70's, he moved to California and eventually recorded with Elvin Bishop
and Boz Scaggs. He's also featured on my favorite Sam Lay album, "Sam Lay
in Bluesland". I believe one of our list members, sax/harpist Michael
Peloquin, also did some playing with "Apple", at the weekly jam Jack hosted.
On a personal note, I wound up following Jack into the local band he was
playing with before he left Illinois. There were quite a few unison riffs
with the alto sax and guitar I remember struggling with and wondering how
he managed to make them sound so effortless. RIP Applejack.
Mick Zaklan
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Message: 4
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2024 22:05:33 -0500
From: Bob Cohen <bobjcohen at xxxxx>
To: harp-l <harp-l at xxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Wireless Question
Message-ID: <D3AB9129-8E05-42E3-8BAE-02A2EF592D1E at xxxxx>
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Has anyone tried any of those plug in guitar wireless system with a 1/4 jack connector on a JT-40? Curious about the results.
?Bob
Bob Cohen
Writer, Founder/Host of Ouroboros Story Hour, and Teacher
bobjcohen at xxxxx
v/t ?(617) 752-2481?
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Pronouns: he/him/his
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Message: 5
Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2024 14:54:34 +0000
From: Michael Peloquin <peloquinharp at xxxxx>
To: Mick Zaklan <mzaklan at xxxxx>, harp-l <harp-l at xxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] player passing (Jack "Applejack" Walroth)
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Right on, Mick. Jack was the real deal.
(Hit me back offlist)
Apple was a kind person, brilliant songwriter and a really cool, simple (good simple) and very soulful & effective harp player. We played together for 10 years at The Saloon and recorded 1 album together: Blues Power ? Live at the Saloon?good luck finding it.
Here is one of Jack's tunes from the Saloon, Jack and I play some background section parts behind Doug Rowan's excellent baritone saxophone solo. (<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1G16Svv8rU>Blues Power wonders why on 49ers Sunday 1/22/12 at The Saloon in San Francisco, with an original tune by Applejack "Those Lies". Harmonica & vocals: Applejack Walroth, North Beach Horns: Doug Rowan & Michael Peloquin, Bass: Johnny Ace, Guitar: Ron Butkovitch, Drums: Rick Sankey Accompanied by dancing girls feelin' no pain! Filmed by Tina Lewis, Spotlight On Productions.)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1G16Svv8rU>
Notable in that video: my friend Rick Sankey on drums, who just passed away in January?another very kind person, also from Chicago.
Also, my brother Martin sitting in on hippie hand drum, my hair/relative youth and hair color, another 49ers SB loss.
Apple's blonde Bassman head and Peavey 4x10 cab (I loved playing through that amp) lived in the basement of the Saloon (a room with many tales to tell.)
This Applejack tune, Those Lies<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y23eWV1TAc&list=PL1mWZQ4JL5vqYez45T1dWXT8ZHdvkxUQs&index=8>, Radiator 110 (with Jack on harp)<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wY_zcFgpkE&list=PL1mWZQ4JL5vqYez45T1dWXT8ZHdvkxUQs&index=4> and 2 more are on Boz Scaggs excellent Out of the Blues album from 2018<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out_of_the_Blues_(album)>.
I saw Boz in 2023 and he introduced and acknowledged Jack on 2 of the Applejack tunes he did that night. (He didn't even mention Fenton Robinson or Earl King)
Michael Peloquin
Living back in Illinois now...
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From: Harp-L <harp-l-bounces at xxxxx> on behalf of Mick Zaklan <mzaklan at xxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 24, 2024 8:18 AM
To: harp-l <harp-l at xxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] player passing
Sorry to report the passing of blues harpist Jack "Applejack" Walroth
recently. Jack, along with guys like Paul Butterfield, Charlie Musselwhite
and Corky Siegel, was in that first wave of young white harmonica players
to hit the blues clubs on Chicago's Southside and learn the music. In the
mid 70's, he moved to California and eventually recorded with Elvin Bishop
and Boz Scaggs. He's also featured on my favorite Sam Lay album, "Sam Lay
in Bluesland". I believe one of our list members, sax/harpist Michael
Peloquin, also did some playing with "Apple", at the weekly jam Jack hosted.
On a personal note, I wound up following Jack into the local band he was
playing with before he left Illinois. There were quite a few unison riffs
with the alto sax and guitar I remember struggling with and wondering how
he managed to make them sound so effortless. RIP Applejack.
Mick Zaklan
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Message: 6
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 07:45:11 +0000 (UTC)
From: Neil Warren <mrp00bah at xxxxx>
To: "harp-l at xxxxx" <harp-l at xxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] William Clarke biography on the Happy Hour Harmonica
podcast
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Hi all,?Paul Barry joins me again on the podcast, to talk about his biography: Blowin' Like Hell: The William Clarke Story.
Find it on your favourite podcast player by searching for 'Happy Hour Harmonica' or at the link below:
William Clarke retrospective, part 2, with Paul Barry
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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 2 Mar 2024 15:11:45 +0000 (UTC)
From: "othornhill at xxxxx" <othornhill at xxxxx>
To: "harp-l at xxxxx" <harp-l at xxxxx>
Subject: [Harp-L] Fred Sonnen
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I was taught to play harmonica by the great Fred Sonnen. At that time he was living in Saint Petersburg Florida. We had several hundred in the City wide band and about 30 in the advanced group that met on Saturday. Out of curiosity, I was wondering if any of you may have known fred and possibly played with our group on Saturday.
Thanks so much. That as back in the late 50's and early 60's so I know there would be few of us left.
Keep making music.
Oren Thornhill?
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