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Gave the first two songs on the Joe Bonamassa live DVD "Now Serving Royal Tea{name of his previous studio album} Live From The Ryman" {Auditorium in Nashville} a listen. Live as in live-stream, as it was recorded at the Ryman in 2021September 2020, and released in June 2021, when there were still some severe COVID restrictions. I'd read about Bonamassa, and remembered correctly that he'd opened for B.B. King as a 12-(!!!)-year old back in 1989. Definitely a fire-fingered picker. The second song, title song of the studio album "Royal Tea" sure reminded me of some of Roy Buchanan's fireworks ... 😯😲😵🤪🤩
Now listened to the whole Joe Bonamassa DVD "Now Serving Royal Tea Live From The Ryman" wall-to-wall. Finest dose of blues-rock I've had in a long time. Thunder, lightning, lava, avalanches - all there, The set itself (preceded by an introduction) was about an hour and 20 minutes, finishing up with "Cradle Rock" by Rory Gallagher, "Walk In My Shadow" from the band Free's first album, and a medley of Jethro Tull's "A New Day Yesterday" and Yes's "Starship Trooper".
Plus two more songs played off-screen while 10 minutes of credits rolled.
Um ... yes ... seven minutes of mouth harp solo (over half the running time) ... ? And she doesn't quite measure up to Jazz harmonica firebrand Toots Thielemans, whom I have on my vinyl collection "Montreux Jazz Festival 1975", LP "The Oscar Peterson Big 6" (which I haven't been able to find on YT).
Um ... yes ... seven minutes of mouth harp solo (over half the running time) ... ? And she doesn't quite measure up to Jazz harmonica firebrand Toots Thielemans, whom I have on my vinyl collection "Montreux Jazz Festival 1975", LP "The Oscar Peterson Big 6" (which I haven't been able to find on YT).
🤣She does. If by 'measuring up' you mean 'as good as', that may be so, but I prefer seeing and hearing Anna play her harmonica live for seven minutes vs your old white dude.
And it's a harmonica, not a harp. Here you go. A cover of Metallica's 'One' on Harp:
I posted mouth harp, not harp. That is a synonym for harmonica, along with French harp and mouth organ. It is also a bit ambiguous, as the term is also used for a few other, apparently mainly oriental mouth instruments.
I posted mouth harp, not harp. That is a synonym for harmonica, along with French harp and mouth organ. It is also a bit ambiguous, as the term is also used for a few other, apparently mainly oriental mouth instruments.
I know. I was just funnin' witcha I was going to post the Kitt sisters anyway and thought that stretch made a good segue. 😅
If by 'measuring up' you mean 'as good as', that may be so, but I prefer seeing and hearing Anna play her harmonica live for seven minutes vs your old white dude.
If by 'measuring up' you mean 'as good as', that may be so, but I prefer seeing and hearing Anna play her harmonica live for seven minutes vs your old white dude.
I suppose; that's one big difference between video clips and vinyl ...
I'll share a bit of the commentary on the back of the album cover of that Montreux Jazz Festival 1975 session that I mentioned above, as I find it amusing:
"This {instrumental} unfamiliarity took the form of a man standing on stage with his hands over his mouth, linked to some wires which swooped away from his trousers in a fine parabola. This was the harmonica player Toots Thielemans, who was the first soloist off the mark, blowing a tremendous gale of quavers into the night air, seeming at times, because of the position of his cupped hands, not to be playing an instrument at all but miming to a record, as slightly looney jazz buffs sometimes will, before a mirror in the privacy of their own room."
I play in my school band, and we will play Escape from the Deep, by Brian Balmages at our concert next week. I searched for music by the same composer, came across Moscow, 1941 and it's beautiful.
I play in my school band, and we will play Escape from the Deep, by Brian Balmages at our concert next week. I searched for music by the same composer, came across Moscow, 1941 and it's beautiful.
I haven't heard about Brian Balmages before but I like this musical composition so much that I don't think he could ever create anything as excellent as it. According to Tolkien,