Vocals, harmonica, guitar, organ bass pedals (same time), solo or band. I don't accept anything less than "full band" quality or better.
I'm IronMan Mike Curtis. I sing and write songs.
And I play electric harmonica, guitar, organ bass pedals ..... all three, all live, all me. Nothing prerecorded, nothing sequenced (well .... except an Alesis SR-16 drum machine I use when I don't have a drummer that doesn't object to having the beat punched in). I have video and more tunes on request.
I play the harmonica-guitar-bass pedal three instrument combination as one instrument because I can only do one thing at a time. Harmonica guru Jon Gindick (who also plays guitar) coined the word "Guitarmonica" for the guitar and racked harmonica combination. So now I'm on the horns of a dilemma, trying to decide whether I play bastarmonica (that's a long A as in ace, not short as in donkey), basspeduitarmonica, harbasspeduitar, guitarmobass, or petarmonica.
Thanks a lot, Jon ;)
Some call me "One Man Band". That's why I often play bastarmonica with other musicians. Drums, percussion, a second guitarist, sax, and once with TWO other harmonica players, Winslow Yerxa (harmonica player extraordinaire, publisher of Harmonica Informational Press) and Harmonica John Fraser. And yes, it sounded good! The secret? We listened to each other, and thought like a horn section. Harmonies, comping, and laying out whenever we had nothing to add.
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