HarmonicaJam.com

Rick

Welcome to the Online Jam! I have been running the harmonica jam online since 2001. I will do a spasm of programming, and then a spasm of writing and playing music. Right now I am in a programming spasm, so I do not have any new music up. Musically, I practice a bit and mostly get to listen to the great stuff everyone else is putting up. This is really just a practice site, the goal is to make practice fun since you know that someone will be listening to your output, but wow, the guys sure do output some great music!

A little about myself I have played off and on, mostly off, since I was 16. I think my early instrument choices were driven a lot by cost. I got pretty good on the Jews Harp. I next progressed to a Hohner harmonica which cost about $5 at the time. That was the Cadillac of instruments for me. In college I tried to learn piano and guitar but I was a terrible self teacher and it never occurred to me to take lessons. I remember spending hours practicing piano while reading a book. I thought music was purely a motor skill and I could save time and do two things at once. I actually learned to play a couple of complex songs that way, "Beale Street Blues" comes to mind. But it was not much of a learning strategy. At any rate, I did eventually become a pretty good guitar strummer, although everything I did was a variation of one particular strum. But man, I had that strum down! I put my trusty harmonica in a rack and it was like playing piano again, doing two things at once. I wrote a bunch of bad music. And then the internet hit, and I decided to blend my musical and programming interests and create this really bad site. Or maybe it is a really good site. Pssst, do you wanna listen to some music? We got lots of it. Streaming Jam!

Reviews:

Real Good Looker
''Outstanding vocals, and good all the way around.''
--Eric Stahl

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''Wish I could give you even more points, but if you wanted that you could probably just program it to do that. Fun piece, even if harp opportunities are somewhat limited.''
--Brown Ale Guy

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''their Rheumatism? nice. that one was fun to listen to. i like all of the vocal lines layered all over the place. Makes Me feel alright....''
--Naptown Blue

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''Wow your lyrics are even weirder than those Lips writes, hahaha. Cool Rick!''
--Appleman Ed

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''Great package Rick!''
--BlueInGreen

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''I like these lyrics a lot. Very funny. Isn't there a Gary Primich tune about some drunk loser at a bar who thinks he is on with it?''
--Eric Martin

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''Love it Rick. My favourite Rick post. You even interview poetically man. I love the second verse...dude, you sound like a brother for sure : )Not much harp, but great entertainment value and it didn't aggravate my rheumatism : )''
--Lips Angelo

Makes Me Crazy But I Feel Alright
''Oh yeah - good fun stuff - I really like the interview thing and the harp just fits! Made me feel good! Good on ya Rick!''
--htrain

Real Good Looker
''Double-wide? Did you also produce that cashews commercial? This is a great BT, it's on my list to do.''
--BeelzeBob

Real Good Looker
''when I say notes...I mean the song notes...not your modest 4d. :)))))) etc....''
--Naptown Blue

Real Good Looker
''Your notes are always....modest....you can find time to record this..and check up on all the rest of us......FU@#!N Loungy. very cool.''
--Naptown Blue

Real Good Looker
''Now theres a nice laid back jam. Way to go bud.''
--Mc7

Real Good Looker
''You're lucky that you had that Mr Mojo singing and making you sound good. Liked the whole package Rick. Good to hear you doing some harping again man.''
--Lips Angelo

Real Good Looker
''Sweet total package - nice BT - great vocals and solid harp - good on ya Rick''
--htrain

Real Good Looker
''Good pkg. Rick. I did notice that the B-track has some timing errors in it. You seem to be rushing the beat some of the time.''
--dblues

Real Good Looker
''Sounds like the player knows the guy who did the B_T. It all fits together so nice.''
--Brown Ale Guy

Real Good Looker
''Ahhh, like how you made it your own!! Good Harp man!''
--Htmn007

Real Good Looker
''Well stacked Rick. The sequences of harp - vocals - guitar and talking combine to make a complete piece.''
--tonedeft

Real Good Looker
''I think I met this girly once.....still got the scares to prove it. Outstanding harpin Rick.....in fact...a complete package....can't ask or get better than that.''
--Peter Holliman

Real Good Looker
''Nice to hear your harp and vocals Rick. I liked the second harp solo best.''
--Frosty