Jesus that does sound cool. I'm jealous. That's why I'm still buying
records even though I'm getting rid of them. Because I dream about records
like that and then find out that of course they do exist somewhere.
AZ
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:39:13 -0500
From: nytab@pipeline.com
Subject: [none]
October 30, 2000Don Brooks, Harmonica Player Suited to Blues and Bee Gees, Is Dead at 53
By JON PARELES
Don Brooks, a harmonica player who recorded widely as a studio musician in New York City, died of leukemia Wednesday at Cabrini Medical Center in Manhattan, said his widow, Anne. He was 53 and lived in Greenwich Village.
Mr. Brooks grew up in Texas and took up the harmonica after hearing an album by the bluesman Sonny Terry. He played in Dallas coffeehouses in the 1960's alongside songwriters like Mance Lipscomb, Lightning Hopkins and Jerry Jeff Walker.
In 1967, he moved to New York City and became part of a Greenwich Village folk scene that included David Bromberg and John Hammond Jr. He recorded and performed with Judy Collins and Harry Belafonte, and in 1973, he joined the country singer Waylon Jennings's band, in which his harmonica playing helped create the sound of outlaw country music.
"He influenced a lot of people," said Mickey Raphael, the longtime harmonica player in Willie Nelson's band.
"What made him distinctive is the simplicity of his playing and his great tone," Mr. Raphael said. "He played the right thing at the right time. He was also a very rhythmic player. He mastered a technique he called chucking, a popping of the harmonica that sounded like a rim shot on a snare. It can be very useful when you don't want to play a lot of notes all the time, so the harmonica becomes a rhythm instrument. If he didn't invent it, he surely perfected it and passed it on."
Mr. Brooks established himself as a leading studio player in New York.
Through the years, he recorded with Billy Joel, Cyndi Lauper, Carly Simon, the Talking Heads, Ringo Starr, Tim Hardin, the Bee Gees, Diana Ross, Bette Midler and Yoko Ono and the Plastic Ono Band. He was a musician on Broadway in "Big River" in 1985 and "The Gospel at Colonus" in 1988, and was heard in the Ken Burns public television documentary "The Civil War."
"My job was always to make other people sound good," Mr. Brooks once said. "Everything I do, everything I play, is the blues."
He is survived by his wife; a son, Leonard; and two grandchildren.
Copyright 2000 The New York Times Company
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 19:42:28 EST
From: DJJimmyBee@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) dummies
In a message dated 10/30/0 4:46:58 PM, byost@megsinet.net wrote:
>>Do you know how to pronounce Bebel's <Gilberto> father's name, Joao (with
the >>little squiggly mark over the a)?
I used to deal with a deranged teen by that name and he was called "Joah"
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 21:52:53 EST
From: Dlsmay@aol.com
Subject: Re: (exotica) dummies
> >>Do you know how to pronounce Bebel's <Gilberto> father's name, Joao (with
the >>little squiggly mark over the a)?
Joao = Zhwah
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 23:25:18 -0500
From: cheryl <cheryls@dsuper.net>
Subject: (exotica) Exotica in The Wire
I'm wondering if anyone else has seen this month's issue of The Wire -
the one that lists all the web resources, sites, etc. They have a
listing of various online discussion groups, with brief descriptions,
and they have included the Exotica list (I don't remember the exact
wording, but basically it implied that we all know everything there is
to know about the genre. Us - experts? Nah...) If anyone has the
exact quote, you might want to post it for everyone else to see...
cheryl
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 20:33:58 -0800
From: "Benito Vergara" <sunny70@sirius.com>
Subject: (exotica) know-it-all retro freaks
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com
> [mailto:owner-exotica@lists.xmission.com]On Behalf Of cheryl
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 8:25 PM
> and they have included the Exotica list (I don't remember the exact
> wording, but basically it implied that we all know everything there is
> to know about the genre. Us - experts? Nah...) If anyone has the
> exact quote, you might want to post it for everyone else to see...
Man, it's been sitting here for a week now, and I haven't looked at it yet!
"This group of know-it-all retro freaks will help you climb the mountain of
exotica reissues, as well as point you towards the best car boot sales."
Blech.
Later,
Ben
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 18:23:22 +0100
From: Moritz R <moritz@derplan.com>
Subject: (exotica) (obit:) Harry Rosenberg
Harry Rosenberg, owner of the legendary "Harry's Hafenbazar" in Hamburg,
St.Pauli, died last friday. The shop was famous since the 50s for its
huge and unsurveyable collection of all possible and impossible exotica,
primitve masks, sculptures, paintings, nautica, fish lamps, oversea's
furniture, pad animals, old books and magazines and even shrunken heads,
that sailors constantly brought him from all over the world. Around the
corner from where the Beatles started their career Harry ran the shop,
that stretched for over 1000 sqm into a labyrinth of different cellars
of Hamburg's port quarter, for almost half a century, until he had to
move from his original location in the early 90s and left everything to
his daughter Karin, who currently runs it in a factory hall next to the
Kaiserkeller.
Mo
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 11:08:34 -0000
From: G.R.Reader@bton.ac.uk
Subject: (exotica) Wanderlay for dummies and beyond
If you're going to get into this then theres also Astrud Gil-verto (but not
