My blues harmonica journey

once again I got distracted and started rambling and eventually forgot a bunch of important points to make. I'm uploading this because I'm not letting those 40 minutes go to waste lmao
sorry guys
in my head the video topics are always great but then I record and it turns to, well, THIS

[@LEEROY147]

Hey Frank, really liking your content. You should make a video on the early blues/jazz stuff you listen to. I'm always looking for recommendations on older music i may not have come across.

[@MeteCanKarahasan]

Man! Those marine bands make the most appealing thumbnail photograph, indeed!

[@harponderous5259]

nice one dude...keep on playing and learning...there is no end...its an ever shifting horizon...thats what keeps us interested

[@dannydan7139]

Hey, great video. It doesn't matter it's 40 minutes long, I love it 😅 Please just continue

[@yuriythebest]

Hi! Thanks for the video. As for 40:00, And how you 'can't play other positions', I recently learned the "secret" - no one can play them "on the fly". Just search for tabs with "2nd position" in the name or use the seydel tab tool to convert any tabs yourself.

[@ikust007]

Splendide vidéo.

[@Quackfly]

I watched an ozzy interview recently, he was talking about the early stuff and said a lot of it was 12 bar blues. It might of been the clip from a show he did when he went to a harmonic Museum. It's on KZbin

[@claydobbins9342]

I came here to listen to your harmonica experiences, not pot smoking. I grew up around junkies. Hardcore. Heroin addicts. Crack cocaine did a number on my culture and community. My stepson died at a young age from fentanyl. Drug use is such a personal thing, one should keep it to themselves. I saw a video of Adam Gussow, and he mentioned his cocaine usage. I didn't know anything about it, didn't want to know anything about something so personal, and it made me view him differently than the esteem I held him at. I used to work with bands, and I saw drug usage and its destruction. My favorite musician, Charles Christopher "Yardbird" Parker, was a drug addict along with many of the jazz musicians I love. Drugs and drug talk turn me off.

[@formansbasement2311]

@@claydobbins9342 then get lost bitch, this is my channel and I’ll talk about whatever I want. You clearly have a very skewed view on the consumption of drugs and alcohol. Let me give you some advice, go try some opiates or stimulants and live a little. You’re pathetic Clay.

[@formansbasement2311]

@@claydobbins9342 oh yeah and one more thing, Parker would not have been the great musician he was without drugs, period. If you can’t even admit that to yourself, you must not know what it’s like to play under the influence of heavy narcotics. Because it works and there’s a very real reason people use it, musicians especially.

[@claydobbins9342]

@@formansbasement2311 I have listened to Parker for over 65 years or more. I know his biography very well. He was hooked at age 14 and always admitted he regretted it. He told other musicians that was not the key to his skill and talent. You are not aware of the many hours Parker practiced. Parker was upset when other musicians followed in his pattern by using drugs. Drugs sent Parker to jail, to the mental asylum, caused him to be an alcoholic (another drug), caused him lose his cabaret card, and more. Before you try to tell me about the genius of Bird, please check out this young woman who researched Bird for her Internet channel: Charlie Yardbird Parker Jr. Scandalous Old Hollywood Scandals by Ashley Says So. I doubt if you'd watch her presentation because you don't want to be wrong in your assessment, but you should. It is easier for me to refer you to her channel than for me to tell you what I know about Parker, Billie Holiday, Thelonious Monk, Ray Charles, Art Blakey, Chet Baker, Whitney Houston, and many, many, many more. Please, check it out, and then let's talk.

[@claydobbins9342]

@@formansbasement2311 Oh, BTW, Bird was 34 years of age when all of his organs shutdown. The coroner thought that he was 63.

[@claydobbins9342]

@@formansbasement2311 I have friends, such as jazz artist Nancy King who knew Bird when she was half his age. Leroy Vinnegar (who is no longer with us), another friend who knew and played with Bird. Check out AshleySaysSo: Charlie Yardbird Parker.

[@Pan-boyLandoSoychildDongLover]

Benny Goodman, my harp style is probably influenced by swing too. Good stuff dude !