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jimharpo

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About Me


Hi. Im Jim Harcus born 1954 in Perthshire Scotland I have played the Mouth Organ since I was 6 years old. I was brought up with traditional Scottish Country Dance music and played that until my early teens. Then I lost my way as you do at that age. It was 20 years before picked it up again after listening to Little Walter. I started to play Harp seriously around 1992 and then went on to play with The Glebe Street Blues Band. Then met up with Dave Arcari and played some accoustic Blues before we formed RADIOTONES. We have recorded three albums and we have played live on BBC Radio Scotland four times. My other band WANG DANG DELTA has been formed with some of the best musicians in Perthshire and it is a privelage to play with them. We have recorded one album so far with a second on it's way. Check out: www.myspace.com-wangdangdelta.... and www.myspace.com/radiotones.... I also played harp on THE ORIGINAL WINDOWS debut CD . Please check out: www.myspace.com-theoriginalwindows.....Looking forward to: playing more and working less, pushing my harp playing to greater heights............UPCOMING GIGS:- RADIOTONES- 30th Nov. Nice N Sleazy- Glasgow - WANGDANGDELTA- 15th Sep. Famous Bein Inn- Glenfarg- 12th Oct. Salutation Hotel- Perth- 29th Oct. Town Hall Pitlochry- 16th Nov. Pitcairngreen Inn- Perth- 30th Decem. Taybank Hogmany Bash- Dunkeld-

My Interests

My Family and fly fishing and playing Harmonica and going on holiday and eating good food and drinking Malt Whisky and meeting new friends .....................!!

I'd like to meet:

All you like minded harp lovin human beings that read this page and go away happy.

Music:

Stones Zepplin Cream Bowie Roxy Mott the Hoople Jethro Tull ELP Queen Eurythmics REM Dire Straights Little Walter and all Harmonica greats past and present

Movies:

Action movies Comedys Thrillers .................!!

Television:

Mostly not worth watchin..Hate fly on the wall garbage Hate soaps. Like good comedy and nature stuff. ..............!!

Books:

Wilbur Smith James Patterson Cathy Riech Ian Rankin Jeffrey Deaver Michael Connoly

Heroes:

My Dad the only guy I'll ever look up to. My wife Rose who I'd be lost without. My Mum.

My Blog

Photographs.

My most recent pics were taken by a bright new talent who goes by the name of Paul Webster.  You can see some of his work on : http://www.flicker.com/photos/37451230@NOO/
Posted by jimharpo on Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:42:00 PST

More Harpin stuff

Thinking about a new amp ? Then you wont go far wrong with a HarpGear 30. This is a great wee amp with more volume than you'll ever need with little or no feed back worries. A very light amp to c...
Posted by jimharpo on Mon, 09 Jul 2007 02:45:00 PST

Harpin stuff

Any of you harp players thought about gettin your beloved harps customised or repaired and tuned then the guy to do it is Al Price from Newton Stewart in Scotland. The guy is a technical genius a...
Posted by jimharpo on Sat, 07 Jul 2007 12:34:00 PST