Little Walter R&R Hall of Fame film 

He was the greatest amplified harp player of all time for sure. Sonney Terry and Rice Miller were the greatest non-amplified (acoustic) players as far as I know.

@@bobaldo2339 i still struggle to cop anything CLOSE to his tone.

It's a classic. They'll be raking in royalties for that movie for decades.

I've never understood the hype for Paul Schaefer.

@@harrymills2770 HE'S A SOUP SANDWICH

Really? Even ‘How much is that Doggie in the window?’

In little walter’s day a marine band harp cost maybe 50 cents. Now they cost 50 dollars!

What is that supposed to mean? He bent some notes a semi tone, some a whole tone, some a minor third. What do you mean by short of a semi tone? Maybe draw 5 which you can draw bend a quarter tone…

Alot happened to him he was badly beaten by cops streesed out and he drank alot.

He was a drinker and got into alot of bar fights which resulted in his death

bluepeas510 he lived the life he loved and he loved the life he lived.....hes a rollin stone RIP little walter

He was what we’d call a raging alcoholic. He also fought. In bars. All the time. He died in a bar fight. Look at pictures. His face is scarred to hell.

@@ChefClary60 Yup. Knife fights. He was a hound dog when it came to the ladies, and they were always in heat when he was around. According to at least one guy who rolled with him, he definitely had a way with women, which would explain why he got into so many scrapes. He didn't die IN a bar fight. He died hours later, because he didn't get treatment for his injuries, if I remember the story, correctly. That was the really sad part. He'd've lived longer if he'd've had medical treatment. But it sounds like he got the worst of it in a brawl, and - probably not unusual for us harp players - made his way someplace lonely to lick his wounds, like he had a million times before, and didn't realize he was dying. His story sort of reminds me of Jaco Pastorius, but I see Jaco as someone who lost his way, and Little Walter as someone who fought his way up. He picked up the harp because he had the blues. He didn't pick up the blues because he played harp.

Hall of Fame is Bullshit. A jive committee decides on who’s nominated….they don’t know shit about the music.

I have it and it is a fantastic book!

He was a bad Alcoholic

IMHO, Clapton was more OK with a (near) note-for-note masterpiece than a harp player just doing his own thing. I'm nowhere close to the same class as any of those cats, but one of my best solos, ever, was one I worked out for Crosscut. Usually, I just kinda flail away like the failed trumpet player that I am. I'm basically playing in the easiest key for trumpet (C) in my head, regardless of what harp I'm playing. The minor 3rd is "Eb" the flat 4th, flat 5th and 5th are F, Gb/F#, G and the flat 7 is Bb. Executing the bends is a little different, depending on what key you're in*, but I can always "think" in C, even though you're grabbing the A harp to play cross harp in E, for the guitars. *It's hard to bend the 1- and the 2-hole with anything lower than an 'A' harp. But you can bend the 3- and 4-holes easier for the flat 3rd and 5th. You can also bend the tippy-top of the harp easier on the blows (all other bends mentioned are draws), like that signature bend at the top of the run by Magic Dick in "Whammer Jammer." It's basically Little Walter's "Juke" lick, only way at the top of the harp, and that bend at the top is on the blow. Up high, you get an extra passing note on the run that Little Walter does (by magic) down low. But I'm re-thinking my Little Walter, trying to sort out just when he's on a chromatic and when he's on a diatonic. I can almost cop what Little Walter's doing on my diatonic, but it involves a perfect bend on the 3 hole on the way up, getting 2 notes - rapid fire - out of one hole. I think he played cross harp on a chromatic a lot more than I ever understood.

@@harrymills2770 I understand cross-harp on a Koch harmonica, (a hybrid diatonic-chromatic), but is there a such thing as cross-harp on a true chromatic? List the tunes you're thinking of.

Robert E. Lee MB in Bb mostly