jason ricci takes off with shawn starski

The hottest jam band in the country today. Listen to what Ricci is doing, moving up the harmonica...No one else, not even Popper, is hitting that, night after night, song after song. And check the rest of the band: so damned tight.
Starski just got voted one of the best guitarists in the country by Guitar Player.

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[elkriverharmonicas]

I would like to hear your band.

[jasonricci]

Howard and I barely know each other and we get along real good the few times we have ever have hung out. I think howard is amazing but can't even bein to grasp most of his approach for him even to be an influence. Any one who can hear any Howard in my playing is only paying me a compliment. Don't spread nasty rumors that arn't true, nor Howard or I would like that. I have written many great articles about how wonderful he is.

[OBAMAJUSTSAYNO]

Levy has recorded or toured with Kenny Loggins, Donald Fagen, Bobby McFerrin, Sandip Burman, Dolly Parton, Dennis DeYoung, and Paquito D'Rivera, Inovators have this type of resumme. Jason doesn't. In 1988, Levy co-founded the Flecktones, leaving the group in 1993. He has appeared on over 200 albums <<<<Another fact Jason cant claim!! INOVATION not Cookie cutters make the man!

[OBAMAJUSTSAYNO]

another idiot taking comments out of context! Your assuming of what i was thinking or comparing is so incorrect. He was the first to use the overblow and overdraw techniques for chromatic playing on the diatonic harmonica in the 1970s. <<< Thats where your comment about him not being the first makes you look so freaking stupid!

[twoflattires]

Post 2 Imagine if Levy had thought like you & decided he didn't want to "steal" anyone elses technique, he wouldn't have pioneered the use of overblows and the harmonica wouldn't be the same as what it is today. If you really listened to both Jason's and Howard's music you'd realise they are completely different from each other.Overblows are just a way of producing a note, its not just one person's special exclusive technique, and it's what they do with those notes that make JR & HL so unique.

[twoflattires]

Post 1

The idea that Jason has stolen Levy's technique is absurd. I'm assuming your refering too the use of overblows, so is it your belief that nobody else should be allowed to use OB's because they didn't invent them? Because that's ridiculous, perhaps nobody should be using bends in there music either. In fact maybe Levy shouldn't be using overblows either, as far as I know Blues Birdhead was the first to record OB's, & that was long before Levy's time.

[bluesdrummer715]

Jason you should know by now theres a percentage of assholes out there, that their whole purpose in life is to knock someone. I for one think you're one of the special new musicians out there as Trucks is. You've found a way of purposely trying not to sound like anyone. Sure as any player we mix our influence's but you've done something unique, and i respect that! Like the guy i do gigs with Ernie Lancaster; he's one that i hear something different each time we play, and thats being a MUSICIAN!

[jasonricci]

Adam Thanks so much for having my back here! I could have only dreamed to hear you say such things a mere 12 years ago. Your the best and I love you for who you are what you say and how bold of a human you are we are all in your debt and Howards...you rock!

J

[jasonricci]

On the band note: I don't care if you like it or not. We don't cover any Derek Trucks songs and only do one cover that I know he has done and have been doing as long or longer (1998).

[KudzuRunner]

POST #4

POST #4

....musical vocabulary. That's what he's deploying here. OBAMAJUSTSAYNO, I'm afraid that your characterization of Jason's playing is based on a profound lack of specific knowledge about how he actually evolved his style. EVERY contemporary harp player who uses overblows--including Jason, Carlos, Chris Michalek, and me--stands in Howard's shadow, and we all acknowledge our debt to him. But he's not the final word in what can be done with overblows. He's Howard Levy. JR is JR.