Frisby's Amazing Harmonica

[nadlerus]

https://youtu.be/wWebvocX35w?si=uh9geGAq6x2vkZsC

[Gnarly He Man]

"He has some sort of fantastic instrument that lets out a death sound."
Just imagine what he could do if he had a button!

[smojoe]

'Harmonica John' Fraser used to use that phrase as a tag line after his name on harp-l back in the 90s. One of my favorite twilight zone episodes.

  I once worked with a fellow who told stories about his early life before the state police. And he was 27 but if you put all his stories together the time lines didn't match. He would have had to have been more like 81. His 'foreign Legion' story was what 'cooked' it for me. lolol.

Joe Bevel'aqua

[Gnarly He Man]

So John Frazer and I were in a band in the early 80's, a trio that played 5 nights a week at a hotel in El Centro--he is the guy who first introduced me to the harmonica!
And Harmonica John is also responsible for another important harp related activity--he gave me a box of distressed 260 model Hohners to refurbish in the 90's, which got me started with that part of my life. I had begun working on harps, but not retuning chromatics--it enabled me to experiment, and I am still doing that.
And it was that ability to perform repairs that basically got me the job as a technician with Suzuki after the turn of the century, thanks to another friend, Daron Stinton.
Small world, eh?

[smojoe]

Great people are like planets. They tend to hang around in galaxies.

Joe (whose tag line was: :"I don haf to cho you any steenkin badges".)