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Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 17:00:58 -0700 (PDT)
From: Winslow Yerxa
Subject: Beach Boys and Bass Harmonica

Last week at the Red Archibald benefit, Mick Martin
(or was it Michaels) was telling me that Dennis Wilson
always used the bass harmonica to figure out rhythms
for Beach Boys songs. He mentioned an out-of-print
album that demonstrated this, and promsied to send me
a dub.

Hmm, OK.

Well, last night, I was watching the all-star tribute
to Brian Wilson, the writing/arranging/studio force
behind the Beach Boys. Songs were being performed
live, and lo and behold I see someone behind the
singer with a bass harmonica. This appeared (and was
occasionally audible) in several numbers.

It wasn't Tommy Morgan - or Danny Wilson. It was a
dark-haired younger man of perhaps olive complexion
and medium height and build who tripled on bass
harmonica, bari sax and clarinet. During the credits,
the names of the band members went by very fast and
did not indicate who played what (I should have been
taping at least that part).

I assume that bass harmonica was included because it
was used on the original recordings - most of the
tunes were done as faithful re-creations of the
orignal arrangements but with different singers.

Anyone know anything about this?

Winslow

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