Grey Owl
389 posts
Nov 03, 2013
4:09 PM
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Just found this French harp player on youtube, pretty cool stuff. Who does he remind you of?
The French have certainly got a crop of talented harp players.
Same track with Sax player
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hooktool
103 posts
Nov 03, 2013
6:52 PM
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Damn!
John
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Chris L
24 posts
Nov 04, 2013
8:13 PM
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"!......!" (What can I say?)
Chris
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easyreeder
429 posts
Nov 04, 2013
9:43 PM
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Yeah Baby!
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harp-er
476 posts
Nov 04, 2013
9:43 PM
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Whooweeeeee! The boy's got it goin' on.
Vive la France!
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Mojokane
733 posts
Nov 05, 2013
12:18 AM
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woah! smokin! Great material..
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harp-er
477 posts
Nov 05, 2013
7:51 AM
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He reminds me of a young Mick Jagger, in terms of his looks, presence/energy, sexuality, and those lips! Of course he's a better harp player. Duh. And maybe a better singer too. And in English.
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harpdude61
1876 posts
Nov 05, 2013
8:17 AM
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I heard a litle Ricci influence in the first one. Great player!
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The Iceman
1258 posts
Nov 05, 2013
8:55 AM
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Who knew that Jason Stratham could play guitar...
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walterharp
1208 posts
Nov 05, 2013
10:17 AM
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nice.. i hear more popper than anything in the first one and sonny terry in the last
Last Edited by walterharp on Nov 05, 2013 10:17 AM
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Grey Owl
391 posts
Nov 05, 2013
11:46 AM
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harpdude61 "I heard a litle Ricci influence in the first one."
Yes, that's what I was hearing too.
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TheoBurke
500 posts
Nov 05, 2013
12:58 PM
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The French are terrible blues singers, from what I've heard. It might be because the French accent is one of the most lampooned since humans could make sound, but whatever the case, the combination a native French speaker attempting to perform in a vocal idiom completely unlike their own--in the black American Blues vernacular--never seems less than comically preposterous. It seems that Charles Pasi has a normally good singing voice and that perhaps his blues vocalizing sounds better in French than in English. As is, it sounds ridiculous , even pretentious to a degree. Another lesson to be drawn from white singers who had no chance of ever sounding like the black geniuses they worshipped-- Paul Btterfield, Mose Allison, Al Wilson, Mick Jagger, to name a few--is to stop trying to sing black and instead play what you know. Then your blues story starts gathering some credibility.
As a player, though, it's a another story. Pasi is a wonderful harmonica player, potentially a great one. He mixes up his styles with verve and energy, he is quick and wonderfully rhythmic--I here some John Mayall/Charlie McCoy stuff here--and he has an efffective vibrato. The only downside I heard is that he's unsure and inexact on the high end--he still sounds like he's looking for those notes. That, though, is something will likely improve with time. I look forward to hearing more from him.
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