Re: Chicks, Looping, and Harmonica (was Why...?)

[Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com>]

Maybe people find it charming because your performance is very good
and that "crappy" harmonica part just comes out as another evidence of
your powerful performance attitude. Besides, singing on the beach with
real wind noise terrorizing the cam work is cool because "it no doubt
shows the real thing". And ever since Dylan a non blues harp harmonica
is allowed to sound even worse than that, so in a way harmonica is not
about how it sounds but about everything else in a song performance
that is not the harmonica. Kind of the sour flavor in a recipe that
has to be there to justify the dish... ;-)

Greetings from Sweden

Per Boysen
www.perboysen.com
http://www.youtube.com/perboysen




On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 4:17 PM, chaz worm <chaz@earthwormandfire.com> 
wrote:
> On my YouTube page there is an example of me trying to do that on a 
> Sparks
> song (Angst In My Pants). Why that song is my most viewed song on 
> YouTube is
> a mystery to me. It was done right after I started playing banjo and
> harmonica. I can more readily do it now but that clips lives on in 
> infamy.
> Haunting me really.