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

[chaz worm <chaz@earthwormandfire.com>]

Thanks. I barely knew the song and was still pretty green on banjo.
 I could almost Be exempted from this most excellent group because I 
pretty much use my banjo head and effects to loop me a drummer. I do very 
little melodic looping. I do 4-part harmonies on my bad religion covers so 
I guess that is unique and looping. 
I'm here in eastern Ky (or the sugarlands of the Philippines) so it's rare 
I get to play with other musicians. 
I did find a clip on YouTube of me looping but it was under the title 
"Hank Zeppelin" and it too was only looping in a quasi percussive cheating 
manner (I looped Bonhams opening drums to Levee and sang a Hank Williams 
tune over it. And very bad harmonica too. Lol)

Chaz Worm - singer, bass, banjo
Earth, Worm & Fire
http://myspace.com/earthwormandfire
http://YouTube.com/ChazWorm


On Oct 24, 2011, at 12:00 PM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>