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Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 20:39:16 +0000
From: "Michael Peloquin"
Subject: Re: Don't badmouth the players (Rant Warning!)

Gator,
I agree with you that harmonica is still an anomoly in pop music. A few
corrections:

>From: Gatorha~ol.com
>Huey Lewis hasn't sold that many albums in a lonnnng time, otherwise he
>wouldn't be on the relatively small silvertone label

- ---I have friends in Huey's band, and have met and played with HL. He
seems
to be content being an in demand act for Vegas, corporate work and mid-level
auditoriums. Huey could get no major label interested in this fine,
original, rootsy Stax/Memphis album. It is called Plan B it has a fair
amount of harp on it BUT IT IS ALL ABOUT THE GROOVES AND SONGS---A little
harmonica goes a long way!
small label=artistic integrity=more harp and horns, better songs, less
stupidity.

>also, of his string of hits, only the early "workin' for a livin'" had
>harp...nearly twenty years ago.

"Workin" peaked at #41
- ---Highest chart position with harp--comin in at #6...
HEART OF ROCK & ROLL--
pop song with mucho harp---even a big solo!

>stevie wonder...okay, but still known to most people for his singing and
>songwriting.

- --and what is wrong with that? This harmonica player could never be called
a
lesser musician. How many FAMOUS instrumentalists can you name that are ONLY
known for their instrument (besides voice)?

>nobody has ever heard of jimmy z, and the only yes record i can
think of with harp is "love will find a way", and that's over 15 years ago.

- -Most of the public has never heard of Tommy Morgan, Tommy Tedesco, Terry
McMillan, etc either but I'll bet they are in millions of people's record
collections as sidemen.
- --Jimmy Z Zavala -Rita Coolidge, Eurythmics (MISSIONARY MAN!!) Carole
King,
Tom Petty, Rick Springfield, Rod Stewart, Eric Burdon

>my unfortunate point remains,that because of mass taste, demographics,
>publicity and other factors, there are few folks known for their harp
>playing. the same could be said of mandolinists, banjo players, and
>flautists.

- -OR ANY INSTRUMENT RIGHT NOW--EVEN GUITAR. They call N-STINC and the
BS-BOYZ, boy "bands". They are not bands they are singing groups like the
Temps, Four Tops and about the same age as those groups were in the
beginning of their careers.
if this were any year other than

>i imagined what if someone would market a blues based album the same same
>way that the "o brother" and "buena vista"
- -Blues Brothers counts, bad harmonica good music.
- -BV Social Club of the blues would be great. I just don't think that old
American black musicians are as sexy to H'wood as the Cuban thing. Don't
forget, Latinos are "in" and politically correct.

You have great points Gator.

Michael Peloquin
www.kharps.com/peloquin1.html

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