![]() Harmonica was sometimes present in the mix, but my attention evaporated shortly after the harmonica’s last note. I wasn’t a fan of that I was a fan of bands like the Rolling Stones or Aerosmith, of Chuck Berry and Led Zeppelin. ![]() It was the kind of music you’d hear on a commercial for Propecia, as the older white man zipped past on his motorcycle. I thought blues was a depressing and boring genre, full of plodding songs about cuckolded husbands and families in debt. I had always listened to music, but never blues. I didn’t have a specific song that fueled an interest in harmonica. My interest in harmonica, and the blues, took a more circuitous route it was more of a slow burn than an explosion. Satan’s Apprentice, Adam Gussow writes how the songs “If You Wanna Get to Heaven” by the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and “Whammer Jammer” by the J. In his interview with David Barrett, Dennis Gruenling talks about the album Harp Attack! (and, specifically, the harp attack of James Cotton) spurring his interest in harmonica. They’ll often describe it in terms of one song or one album that changed everything. Most times I talk to a professional harmonica player, he or she will tell me about a formative early experience with the instrument that launched a life long passion. My beginning harmonica experience differs from most players. The song never remained the same as my abilities grew, my aims shifted as well. It wasn’t a specific song, but more attractive for me was the idea of being able to play something. From the moment I started playing harmonica, I just wanted to learn one song: a song that was catchy and melodic a song that was hip a song that was rhythmic and swung. The story of my harmonica journey is the story of one song, really. Don’t get me wrong, I really love Steven Tyler… always have… I’m just wanting you to know that it may not be as far a stretch as you think for you to kick butt at Steven’s level.Big congratulations goes out to Marc Graci from San Jose, California for completing his LOA-L10 requirements at ! See below for links to his performance from this Saturday at the Poor House Bistro and read his essay “The Process,” which details his journey to LOA-L10. He’s no Howard Levy (and neither am I for that matter). Steven is rocking the house with some fairly simple second position harmonica playing. ![]() Maybe that’s because it actually is easy. Notice how, in the video below, Steven Tyler makes harmonica look easy.
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