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From: cryforhelp
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:33:07 -0700
Subject: Trashing a fellow harpist

JSG~ol.com wrote:
>
> From: fjm/cja
> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 06:45:55 -0700 (MST)
> Subject: Roseanne
> fjm writes:
> "What does this have to do with the segues and opening? In
> the show that was mentioned (a rerun btw) Mr. Logan's music was still
> very much present. John Popper enjoys much popularity and currently tours
> to full houses at large venues. Why would he drop what must be a very
> profitable career to play backing music for a tv sitcom? I don't think
> so. It would seem obvious that Mr. Popper's recent appearance would seem
> to be a cameo and nothing more. fjm "
> .....Juke's always been "the sound" of the Roseanne show (and of
> course, others), but Popper's doing it now...some bean-counting producer
> must have opted for the "more notes for the buck" approach...JP and
> Goodman/Roseanne are buds. I'm sure the money wasn't a thing, just a mutual
> admiration thing.
> fjm, thanks for the cool Db tip for NIght Train and "JB"...

I don't think I like this thread about trashing a successful,
professional musician, especially one with the unimpeachable technical
brilliance of John Popper. I don't know where all this negative energy
comes from and I don't much care. Sure its tough being a terrific
musician in one's own right only to have to watch other people get to be
the stars (just ask Danny Gatton, if you've got a Ouiji board). But
John Popper and BT are awesome. In 25 years of playing harp the only
other diatonic player who ever made me think I could never, ever do what
he does no matter how hard or how long I practiced was "Mel" of the old
Jim Kweskin Jug Band (lastname? He had that amazing, psychedelic throaty
warble that just would not lie down and quit-- say, after that
bad-acid-trip "Mel is god" thing whatever happened to the boy?).

John Popper sounds a little "different"-- so do Bela Fleck and David
Grissman and a host of other crossover, jazz-inflected musicians. I
personally think that they're inventing a new school, nothing wrong with
that and nothing threatening to older sytles that they're built upon.

What's the point of dissing fellow harpists? There's plenty of guitar
players around to do that for us.

- --cryforhelp--

TFTD(any day, every day): Redneck Jazz. We miss you, Danny.