there was a local band doing without love where would u be right now....there was a harp solo on this and told the band members would like to try it if they play it again....anybody done this solo?
A long time ago when I knew a lot less. Even then,I managed to fool the audience,so it shouldn't be too hard. If memory serves me,it was in G crossed on a C harp.
Do you know that if you literally had, at 24 seconds long, you would have spent nearly 278 days of your life playing that solo. Sounds pretty reasonable to me.
I know 'a million times' is a throwaway statement, but in a musician's world where muscle and musical memory can only be achieved through repetition, learning a phrase can feel like you've done it that many times.
@ Steve - you want to know the best part? I've almost got it down. Only one more million times to go! ---------- Tom Halchak www.BlueMoonHarmonicas.com
I played this one back in my rock and roll days with The Goodness Group out of Lake Orion, Michigan. Even back then I had to "work at" making the harmonica sound a little sloppy. ---------- The Iceman
I requested that song at Tootsie's in Nashville, and asked if I could sit in. The band agreed, I hopped on stage, and they asked what key. I said G. They started talking, and decided it wasn't in G. Now, my music theory extends to the circle of fifths, and thats it, and these guys were pros. While the lead singer was looking up the lyrics on his iPhone, the bass player said something like "E minor!", and BOOM, they started the song. (Not sure if it was E minor, but they just played it by ear, note for note.)
LAKE ORION?!? iceman- i knew you bounced around michigan for a while, but i never knew you were in my hometown! where and when? what places did you play?
The Goodness Group was one of the top 2 rock bands in the Lake Orion, Pontiac area, the other being Coloradus.
We played that bowling alley in downton Lake Orion (Royal Lanes, I think??), the 300 Bowl, and other rock clubs.
Band leader Mary McCarrick played drums and sang lead. We had 3 lead singers in the band - Marty, Dale Betts and Kurt Wheeler. We did an acoustic set of Crosby, Stills and Nash tunes. Harmonies were excellent.
Mike Litke (Leakfurd) was the bass player.
We were the house band for a few years at Pine Knob at that little club up the hill from the main stage.
I lived in the first (at the time) apartment complex built near corner of W. Flint St and 24. This was way back in the 70's. ---------- The Iceman
i heard somewhere it was buffalo i think it was much later that norton played with them found this on wiki johnston performed the signature harmonica solo as well as the lead vocal and the distinctive, rhythmic guitar strumming that propels the song. In an interview with Songfacts Johnston revealed that he "wrote the words sitting in the bathroom at Amigo Studios" in Burbank, California.[1] so i stand corrected.
i did a search on don brooks i did not see a credit for that track. it sounds more like the guitar player playing that. it's funny i never really cared who played on that before now i am curious! ---------- tipjar
How does that sound more like the guitar player? Incredible tone, fluid motion, incredible rhythmic harp. I think I just hear music differently. To me, this is a highly advanced solo, with a degree of difficulty 8 out of 10. This is not the work of a man's second instrument, it is the result of a lifetime's study.
and the prize goes to....ray! i guess that answers that question you would think with a forum of harp geeks that would have been a simple question most of us most likely have seen that video in our youth and never gave it a moments notice now we are falling over ourselves and deep down new all along who it was.
pretty sure i saw norton play that with the "doobies" one time at the greek theater but to tell the truth, for some reason: i really do not remember. ---------- tipjar
