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Originally posted by Phil harmonica rolling ones eyes at the mention of a diatonic makes one a jerk ? then just about every guitar player who ever had to stand there endlessly  clomping out chords while a directionless diatonic player rambled on forever into a mike must be a jerk... cause at some point , they all roll their eyes ... of course the diatonic player never sees this because he is generally hunched over a bullet mike either staring at his shoes. or with his eyes closed... it is hard to tell which, we do not often see their faces  what with their hands over their mouths and the HunchBack of Notre Dame poses.

that's right... i've heard it said many times over the years he hated the diatonic and rolled his eyes at the mention of it.... he might have been a jerk....but he could play the blues...don't you think?

Originally posted by rbeetsme Is Larry Adler bending notes on a Chromatic?

i saw Johnny in about 1976, he did a set with the band and then did a solo set.  amazing to watch esp the solo stuff.  frankly most of his guitar stuff is way too loud and distorted for me but there's a couple of exceptions:  late in muddy waters' life johnny produced some stuff for him and they did the guitar work together, which was killer.  i have a cd titled Blues Sky which has a lot of that material on it and it's great.  the other cd i have has one song that is just killer- "It Was Rainin'", and it's either james cotton or carey bell doing a really great harp part behind johnny's vocals.

i do have to admire a guy who was not given long to live at an early age.  look how far he's come and proved em all wrong!  when he was a kid, he used to listen to am radio and heard guys like muddy and others doing slide guitar.  so he taught himself to do that stuff, not realizing that they were all using a slide- he learned slide with no slide!!  that in itself makes him a badass in my book.

Is Larry Adler bending notes on a Chromatic?