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Tom Hearne
On a fly drive holiday to the United States, traveling to Tijuana in
Mexico, my mates and me decided to stop off for the evening in a town called
Ensenitas (I think that is the correct spelling). After a quick brush and
scrub up we thought we'd check out the local nightlife. Now I can't remember
the bar but I do remember eating chicken burittos and drinking quite a lot
of lager (beer).
As the night progressed we got talking to the locals, a young bird (lady) flashed her threepenny bits to my older brother, my cousin was propositioned by an old geezer, and my other mate approached the band playing on stage. After a couple more drinks an announcement went out over the speakers announcing that 'here in the bar tonight is one of London, England's top harmonica players, Mr. Thomas Hearne'. After giving my mate a mouthful of abuse, I was ushered onto the stage and the lead singer/guitarist ask me what key I preferred to play in but all I knew was that I had a Lee Oskar diatonic in the key of "C". The band seem to know what to adjust and away I went playing 2 sets, including a solo. Even though I wasn't anywhere near the 'performing live' ability stage, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and my mate, brother and cousin said I sounded okay.
As the night progressed we got talking to the locals, a young bird (lady) flashed her threepenny bits to my older brother, my cousin was propositioned by an old geezer, and my other mate approached the band playing on stage. After a couple more drinks an announcement went out over the speakers announcing that 'here in the bar tonight is one of London, England's top harmonica players, Mr. Thomas Hearne'. After giving my mate a mouthful of abuse, I was ushered onto the stage and the lead singer/guitarist ask me what key I preferred to play in but all I knew was that I had a Lee Oskar diatonic in the key of "C". The band seem to know what to adjust and away I went playing 2 sets, including a solo. Even though I wasn't anywhere near the 'performing live' ability stage, I thoroughly enjoyed the experience and my mate, brother and cousin said I sounded okay.
London, England
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