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Points: 461 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2005 at 15:54

Originally posted by Geck0 Geck0 wrote:

Cheers Lucas, I shall do.

Is it normal type playing, or more experimental playing?  Harmonicas are limited, I realise, but I've always thought there maybe a way of incorporating it into prog.  Multi-layered harmonica, recording it backwards..., I guess these things have been done before.

I guess multi-layered harmonicas would sound not unlike a harmonium (which essentially is a giant harmonica) and they have been used frequently in prog. Whith Gryphon using them heavely on their first album and Greenslade use them on 'Spyglass Guest'. i think Mike Oldfield uses one as well.
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Points: 27802 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2005 at 18:34
They aren't prog and I know he has been mentioned before but who plays a harmonica better than John Popper of Blues Traveller?No one that I have ever heard.


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Points: 249 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2005 at 22:57
Early J. Geils Band! Yeah, I know, you'll probably going to say that is strict blues. Ok, let's compromise: Progressive  blues (Seth Justman did play some mean organ / kybds.).
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Points: 293 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 25 2005 at 23:39
Someone already mentioned it, but Supertramp do use harmonica.  I can only think of it in School at the moment, but they probably use it for more than that.
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whammer jammer by J. Geils Band
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Points: 3300 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 28 2005 at 00:18

i don't think there is harmonica on Vangelis' Ballad (Spiral album), but the keyboards really sound like an harmonica.

just hear the singer:

"ti da....twe do do du do"..."ta da da da da ti!"

 

HOWEVER, HAVE YOU NOTICED THE HARMONICA IN THE BEGINNING & END OF TANGERINE DREAM 'S "3am At The Border Of The Marsh From Okefenokee" TRACK (stratosfear album)? YEP!



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Don't know if this had been mentioned already, but Archive features a nice little harmonica bit in the introduction of Again (from the album You All Look The Same To Me)


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Mats Öberg  of the Mats/Morgan Band, apart from doing some phenomenal keyboards, and the usually Stevie Wonder impression on vocals, also does a great harp, as I was reminded this weekend having at last found a copy of their album Trends & Other Diseases.
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Originally posted by nimrodel nimrodel wrote:

some ELP song has harmonica in it... i dont remember which one but it was on the late ELP album... and it is on the Original Bootleg Series From The Manticore Vaults pt3.

 



"Paper Blood" from Black Moon. For a while the band had a Greg Lake autographed harmonica available for purchase on line.

Ray Thomas played some sweet harp on "Under Moonshine" on the Moodies' Octave besides on "22.000 Days"...
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