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BiTS: Oh, quite old then by comparison with some.

HS: Yeah, yeah. I guess, yeah.

Eric Arthur (piano),Max Harrison (drums), Henry Slim (harp & vocals), Adam
Newton, (bass & vocals).

BiTS: Did you just learn to play licks or something like that? I mean, one of the

things that always bothered me, not that I'm a harp player, but it certainly affected

me playing the guitar, is at the time when I was wanting to learn there were no
instructions and I didn't know anything about open chords or stuff like that. How

did you learn about cross harp and different positions and all that sort of thing?

HS: I remember just sort of jamming along, not really knowing about cross harp

at first. And then I can't remember what it was, I think I must have talked to
someone or seen something online or something that mentioned it, and I was like,

okay, so I've got a C harmonica, I'm supposed to play that in G, and then it sort of

clicked from there. I was like, oh, okay, that makes sense. So then you just sort of
draw in breath more often than you're blowing and you're able to get the bends

that way. So that's when that all started clicking.

BiTS: I just did a review of an album by harmonica man Giles Robson. I'm sure

you know Giles Robson, and one of the things that I said in that was that there's a

great deal more sucking than there is blowing.

HS: Yeah, right. Yeah, that enables you to get those bends going, and well, I guess

when you're blowing, you can get the high bends. But yeah, that comes later. That's

quite advanced.