Elwood
96 posts
Aug 01, 2009
4:10 PM
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En route to the Northampton Blues Week, Joe Filisko was in Brighton last night. A more personable fellow I've never met: willing to dole out advice to an amateur harp player (me), give a freebie CD to someone who apparently looked like he needed one (still me), and quite happy to forgive any clumsy fool who knocks over his beer (uh yeah, that was also me).
I recorded a brief Q&A with him (soon to appear on bluesinlondon.com), got a mini diagnostic on my wah wah (the nuances of which had faded from memory by the morning), and of course enjoyed immensely his mastery of the blues harmonica tradition. Will post the interview in due course, but for now here's a drawing I did of Filisko.
Last Edited by on Aug 02, 2009 1:40 AM
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jonsparrow
704 posts
Aug 01, 2009
4:27 PM
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"and quite happy to forgive any clumsy fool who knocks over his beer"
haha. your lucky. if that was sonny boy he would have cut you.
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Buddha
896 posts
Aug 01, 2009
4:38 PM
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joey has several weaknesses
good tea
good coffee
good beer
good sushi
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Elwood
97 posts
Aug 02, 2009
1:40 AM
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Sadly the bar was out of the ale he'd been drinking. We had to give him a Kronenbourg 1664, which is like running out of morphine and giving a dying man aspirin.
If I'd known about the sushi...
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Ray
53 posts
Aug 02, 2009
4:16 AM
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Nice artwork.
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Elwood
98 posts
Aug 02, 2009
7:33 AM
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Thanks, Ray. It's based on this image of Joe, mid-Filisko, at Harmonica Masterclass. I should point out, for anyone who hasn't had the pleasure of meeting him, he's not really the colour of canned hot dogs, as I've pictured him. Call it artistic licence.
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jonsparrow
713 posts
Aug 02, 2009
7:40 AM
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does he have teeth? it looks like he has no lower teeth in that pic.
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Elwood
99 posts
Aug 03, 2009
2:14 AM
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Jon, I hadn't noticed that. I was sure he had all his teeth (Buddha, can you confirm? I notice you didn't say anything about him loving a set of chewy spare ribs). But it was a dark and beery night at the Brunswick, and I may have missed the details.
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Elwood
101 posts
Aug 03, 2009
3:48 PM
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On a more serious note, can anyone tell me Joe's approximate age? I was surprised to learn that he only got serious about learning the instrument in the mid/late 1980s (at least, he says his inspiration was the 1986 film CROSSROADS).
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