Elwood
288 posts
Jan 09, 2010
12:05 AM
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Someone said something in another thread (may it rest in peace) about eharp. Won't go into the details, but his name was raised in the company of two very problematic posters - trolls, in fact - as if he was the same sort of guy.
Not sure where that idea came from and I suppose it's not very important. eharp doesn't need anyone defending him - in fact, i think he's a moderator on another forum - but I'd like to say the following.
when I was visiting detroit earlier this year, I posted on this forum to ask what the music scene was like in that town. eharp lives in the area, so he offered to take me to a jam. He also invited me to join him and a buddy at a weekend blues fest that was happening while I was there.
... well, as it turns out, i couldn't get it together. I'd over-estimated the amount of leisure time available to me during the trip, so all I could do was contact him with a big thank-you.
The point is, if anyone had any doubt about this, I'd like to make it clear that the user known as eharp is no troll. Based on the generosity and hospitality he showed me, I'd say he embodies the best of what this harmonica community has to offer.
That's it. Replies are non-obligatory.
- Murray H
Last Edited by on Jan 09, 2010 12:16 AM
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MrVerylongusername
796 posts
Jan 09, 2010
12:28 AM
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hear hear.
He may have upset some folk by expressing and defending an opinion, but he's not a troll. Give the guy a chance, he's genuine.
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jawbone
206 posts
Jan 09, 2010
8:31 AM
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LOL - now this makes me laugh - here is a post dedicated to E - and he's laying on his couch keeping warm under a sleeping bag watching football. And if I know him as well as I think, he will be chuckling and thinking "My work is done, the pot has been stirred"
Damn, now I'm sucked into defending him!! How the heck did he do that?? Now, if the devil really has advocates, E trained them!!! I, for one, would not get into a battle of wits with him, I would end up laughing at my own ineptness.
I met E for the first time at the Bean Blossom Blues Festival 3 years ago, he was probably the first forum member (Bushman Harmonica Forum) that I met and we had many good chats (man, this is gonna sound dumb) but you can't appreciate his humour fully until you are there in person. (Geez, he better pay me for this) but to cut to the chase, I was fortunate enough to win the Harmonica Contest, Eharp had videoed it and posted it on youtube, but since I am on dialup, I could not watch it. When I mentioned that to him, he made a copy and mailed it to me. So that was my first few experiences with Eharp.
So, is eharp a troll, YES, YES, YES he is!!! He is a troll that can be tamed with copious amount of M&M's but will still nail you with a zinger if you give him an opening, but if you can't see the smile on his face when he does it you may get the wrong impression.
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Tuckster
338 posts
Jan 09, 2010
8:54 AM
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I think it's very hard to convey sarcasm in a typed format like this. Unless you put a smiley face after the comment,it can instead be interpreted as being a smart ass. I try to choose what I post very carefully,because I do lean towards the sarcastic.It's bery easy to be misinterpreted when you can't see their facial expressions.
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GermanHarpist
906 posts
Jan 09, 2010
9:44 AM
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Same here, I have a rather weird and twisted kind of humor and most people don't understand me even when they're around in person. So I just cut it completely.
But then I'm german so it doesn't really strike anybody's attention...
I know, german jokes,... too easy.
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germanharpist on YT. =;-) - Resonance is KEY!
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barbequebob
312 posts
Jan 09, 2010
12:02 PM
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If you have odd or sarcastic humor, it never reeally comes off well in print and things that may normally be innocuous when said person to person can have a totally different and at times offensive take when in writing.
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Sincerely,
Barbeque Bob Maglinte
Boston, MA
http://www.barbequebob.com
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nacoran
753 posts
Jan 09, 2010
12:23 PM
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That's what this :) is for! Or (: for you Australians.
:)
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rbeetsme
113 posts
Jan 09, 2010
5:52 PM
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Careful, he's a homicide detective. Probably hangs with Eddie Murphy.
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GEEZER1
14 posts
Jan 09, 2010
7:01 PM
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eharp is ok hes a fun loving guy. look at his you tube of "Raining in my heart" ala Slim Harpo . His entry in the Bushman video contest, playing in zero weather while running a snow blower. hes a man of steel
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Stickman
71 posts
Jan 09, 2010
7:44 PM
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I served in Tarawa with E-harp. He was a stand up guy. Took a bullet in the chest once. If it wasn't for his Hohner Pocket Pal, things woulda' turned out different. This was back when men were men, we listened to Glen Miller (and liked it) not Snoop Dog. You couldn't ask for a better Joe than eharp. He thew himself on a grenade once to save his buddies. Heard he learned to play harp in a prison camp. Used his old reed-plates to tunnel out. Fashioned a raft out of palm fronds and sailed across the Indian Ocean, just to be marooned on a small Island south of Calcutta. There, he was mauled by a pack of wild French Ring dogs. He Practiced harp there for 20 years under the tutelage of a hermit named Buddha, before being picked up by a ship full of Lithuanian Merchant Marines! Once he made his way back to the States we took up busking in Fargo North Dakota. I heard It got so cold every reed 'cept his 3 hole blow froze but would still play you a song (even when his harp froze to his lips). Thats when he started ridin' the rails. He hoboed for a while just to practice his chugging and train rhythms. They say he'd share his last can of beans with ya. Once a seasoned traveler named Old Wailer told me on a cold night eharp made a fire with his own socks to warm a can of Vienna sausage for the two of them to eat. You couldn't ask for a better guy than eharp.
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The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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jawbone
207 posts
Jan 09, 2010
11:38 PM
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All that is wrong, except for sharing his beans!!!!! But do not, I repeat, do not ask him to share his M&M's but if you do, do not break eye contact until you either have 3, and just, 3 M&M's or you have successfully back thru an escape route.
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Elwood
291 posts
Jan 10, 2010
4:01 AM
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I heard he invented dice when he was a kid...
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Sarge
11 posts
Jan 10, 2010
8:01 AM
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You would be hard pressed to find a better guy than eharp. And rbeetsme is right, he does cook a mean breakfast.
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Ray
94 posts
Jan 10, 2010
8:19 AM
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Did he share his beans before or after he ate them?:)
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jonsparrow
1641 posts
Jan 10, 2010
9:20 AM
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lmao @ this thread. this guy sounds cooler then the fonz.
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oda
165 posts
Jan 10, 2010
9:24 AM
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I don't know the man, I have not heard his username prior to reading this thread, but I would gladly take a bullet for him.
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jawbone
208 posts
Jan 10, 2010
10:36 AM
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When he was an infant he was lost in the Louisiana bayou and survived by learning to imitate the mating call of the Great Eastern Alligator. He later fashioned his first slide guitar by using a Cyress Hip and the sinouy tendons from the powerful jaw muscles of that very same alligator.
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Stickman
75 posts
Jan 10, 2010
10:49 AM
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Was that before or after he taught Chuck Norris how to do a roundhouse kick?
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The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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nacoran
764 posts
Jan 10, 2010
10:57 AM
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I heard he's 10 feet tall and he can cup six diatonics in one hand in playing position, and four in the other. He could cup six in each, but he never sets down his beer. I heard the thing about the sinewy tendons from the powerful jaw muscles too, but I heard they are still attached to the living 30 foot long alligator. When he needs a whammy bar and his hands are full of harps and beer he just stomps on the gators tail and the gator snaps it's jaws just right to oblige him.
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jonsparrow
1642 posts
Jan 10, 2010
11:33 AM
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i heard that he created the earth in only 6 days.
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rbeetsme
116 posts
Jan 10, 2010
11:42 AM
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Wow, if only he play the harp!
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jawbone
209 posts
Jan 10, 2010
2:16 PM
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I heard he once saved an orphaned baby kangaroo by keeping it in his shorts for 5 1/2 months.
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If it ain't got harp - it ain't really blues!!!!
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Stickman
78 posts
Jan 10, 2010
6:07 PM
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It's a proven fact that he will walk 47 miles of barbed wire, use a cobra snake for a neck tie, lives in a house made of rattlesnake hide that has a brand new chimney made out of a human skull. Oh yah, and he cooks a mean breakfast.
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The Art Teacher Formally Known As scstrickland
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GEEZER1
15 posts
Jan 10, 2010
7:35 PM
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Eharp makes Paul Bunyan and Pecos Bill look like midgets. His Harp is so big when he blows on holes 1 2 3 in first position
it can knock down a forest, when he pulls number three down it changes the Tides, what a man. His harp? Its a thirty foot long Bushman custom.
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jonsparrow
1647 posts
Jan 10, 2010
7:53 PM
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seasonal hurricanes are really just eharp blowing harp. thunderstorms are really just him snoring. an every time he does a two hole shake an angel gets its wings.
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nacoran
770 posts
Jan 10, 2010
10:50 PM
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He plays a Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low Low A harp when he's got a cold and out of breath. Usually he prefers something a couple octaves deeper.
He can talk to elephants through their feet. He can bend the C on a C harp down to C# two octaves down and he once overblew a note so high that it restarted a dead hummingbirds heart.
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GEEZER1
16 posts
Jan 11, 2010
9:26 AM
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The Legend of Eharp continues.
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eharp
421 posts
Jan 11, 2010
9:47 AM
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where are the moderators when they are truly needed??
i wont confirm or deny the accolades/antecedents/myths except to tell jon i needed 9 days cause i didnt know which key was appropriate.
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GEEZER1
17 posts
Jan 11, 2010
9:56 AM
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Now "E" we know your a nice stand up guy with a fun loving personality, and a great guy to verbal joust with. You are now a legend of mythical proportions. Don't be shy accept it. and they say you cook a great breakfast, I want some country ham , red eye gravy, grits , and some cat head biscuits with dunking donuts coffee and some sorgum molasses to spread on said biscuits. don't forget the butter. Cook the eggs sunny side up please. Your a great guy Eharp
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rbeetsme
119 posts
Jan 11, 2010
10:36 AM
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Come to the 2010 Bean Blossom Bluesfest. Eharp stays in cabin 12 and we all pitch in for breakfast there a couple of days.
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nacoran
786 posts
Jan 12, 2010
8:40 PM
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This should be made into a song.
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rbeetsme
120 posts
Jan 13, 2010
6:26 AM
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I just received an email from eharp. His beloved Lions and Steelers didn't make the playoffs this year. He's back in training, the NFL is shuddering.
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GEEZER1
18 posts
Jan 13, 2010
8:29 AM
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Is eharp coming out of retirement to play again? More records to break? What a man he is...
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Helix
2 posts
Jan 13, 2010
11:19 AM
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"E" blew his harp till the covers melted down....
Grabbed an alligator and he blew another round..
He filled its' mouth with reed plates...
he took it by the tail...
he rocked it like a lever..
man you shoulda heard him wail !
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