Bobby McGhee was released Jul. 69, just in time for Woodstock Aug. 69. I started to play it in Sept 69. One of the few tunes that you can easily play in second position on a Richter tuned diat. Never liked the word harp, never liked the Joplin version. And I always played it rather fast. Like McCoy's version. Which he recorded a few years LATER. lolol.
Btw, I never knew Charlie to play FOUR diatonics all held at the same time on a FAST tune. He WOULD do that on some slower tunes (like Danny Boy) where he used a crossed diat. on the melody and one played straight on the bridge. Then a second set if he modulated up a half tone. A total of four. I never used more than two.
Btw, when Charlie did play a chromatic, he used one that was in the same key as the tune. (are you reading this Elizabeth). We were once playing Crazy in A and after a diat. portion I went to a chromo. He asked if it was tuned in A, and I said "No, I'm using a C". He nodded in approval.
I call them chromo because I am from the planet chromo. Which has been wrongly named by the Greeks. Who are the Greeks to name our planet?
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