Video of the Week Aug 31 2010: Butterfield Oct. 1979
Paul Butterfield with Blondie Chaplin and Rick Danko on a smoking one chord groove. Great great great.
One Ton Pig July 27 2010: Don’t Let Me Down
Here’s a live version of Michael Batdorf’s song Don’t Let Me Down from the One Ton Pig show at the Silver Dollar in Jackson, Wyoming on July 27 2010. I’m playing harmonica through a Fireball V mic into a Digitech RP355 into the mixer. I…
Favorite harp video August 21 2010
Toots Thielemans plays “Blusette” at a Swedish awards show, Stevie Wonder joins in at about 3:45. What more need be said?
One Ton Pig, July 27 2010: Good Hearted Woman
Here’s a live version of Merle Haggard’s Good Hearted Woman from the One Ton Pig show at the Silver Dollar in Jackson, Wyoming on July 27 2010. I’m playing harmonica, of course, through a Fireball V mic into a Digitech RP355 into the mixer. I…
The Best Harp Player I Met at SPAH
… is a young Polish musician named Bartosz Leczycki. He played brilliant diatonic harmonica in lots of different styles, always very fresh and original, with very highly developed technique and harmonic conception, on a par with anyone I’ve heard. (I didn’t hear his chromatic playing,…
Abstract
I was playing with the looper the other day, and I created the abstract piece you hear below. This is a strange, abrasive, and sometimes thrilling piece. I’m not sure what sounds exactly I used on this. The first layer, alternating G and F chords,…
From the Alpine Wines gig: You Won’t Get Over Me
To complete the sampling of pieces from the Alpine Wines solo gig on August 4, here are three excerpts from my song “You Won’t Get Over Me.” These snips are all instrumental–unfortunately, the Zoom H4 recorder overloaded every time I began to sing. So you’ll…
Two more pieces from the Alpine Wines gig
Tequila, electric solo with looper. Dorian tuned (draw 3 and draw 7 flatted 1/2 step) Golden Melody, key of B, in 1st position. Looper used to back the jam section. The RP355 patch for this piece is a Matchless amp model with a low octave…
Electric stuff from the Alpine Wines gig
At my gig at Alpine Wines in Driggs ID on August 4, I did a few pieces with the looper. It was a new and different experience. The main thing I like about those pieces is the cool sounds that result from layering the harps with the Digitech RP355 a…
A couple of recordings from the Alpine Wines gig
I’ve been listening to the recordings from the Alpine Wines gig in Driggs ID on August 4, and I’ve decided to share some of the pieces. The recording quality, as usual for a live gig, is good but not great. It’s a live gig; there is crowd noise. …
