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Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 22:29:42 -0700
From: b~-2000.com (Robert Bonfiglio)
Subject: Re: Alanis the fun part

The interesting thing is not that the stars attempt the harmonica, but the
situations that come out of this.

For years great musicians have gone into studios with bands plus full
orchestra plus arrangers etc.. and the only person who knows nothing about
music or playing an instrument is the STAR.

But fun can happen from this and I am sure other harmonica players can tell
you their stories.

I get called in to to a studio date for a Jerry Lewis Telethon where a STAR
has played harmonica, BUT, somehow the mic was not on but for a few notes
and would I watch him play and then put down a harmonica track. I could
only hear a little harp, in the wrong key, and new the sound man was on top
of things at the show and turned the mic off. It IS hard do to a shake
just at the right time and make everything sound and look musical to
someone who has no concept of the instrument.

Second time I taught a major star to play harmonica, even though he was
wacked out on drugs, and then got to over dub the part he played in the
film after he made a mess of it.

I went into the studio and replaced half the harmonica solo on a South
American STAR's harmonica attempt.

A composer wrote music for the Joffery Ballet and put down a bad harmonica
part; somebody then transcribed the mess with 32nd note rests and horrible
double stops that only a beginner could do and asked me to replace it.
Kind of like me playing the violin and asking Pearlman to make the same
sounds. I put down what they meant and found out that this certain dancer
STAR played a little harmonica.

But I think Brendan has the ultimate story- he plays Stings's recording -
Sting put's down some harmonica part himself and Brendon is asked to lip
sink this to a video - a great harmonica player is thereby humiliated. But
he has a story to tell the kids.

Harmonically yours,

Robert Bonfiglio

http://www.robertbonfiglio.com