Remi Harris on That Pedal Show

paulmcevoy75 · January 29

Am I the first person to see this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7yCNkQp8_U&pp=ygUbcmVtaSBoYXJyaXMgdGhhdCBwZWRhbCBzaG932AbIAg%3D%3D

Buco · January 29

I started watching it the other day, about one third in. Unfortunately, yesterday Remi shared terrible news that his wife died. Just awful. I heard that she was diagnosed with cancer and she went through the therapy and it sounded like things were looking up. That was only about a year ago. Both of them so young. I really hope he's got support around him at this time.

flaco · January 30

Oh wow, that’s terrible news! I had seen the video the other day and watched about half of it. Very interesting to have an acoustic player on a show called “That Pedal Show”, but I’m guessing they’ll get into pedals and gear in the second half when he talks about the Peter Green stuff.

paulmcevoy75 · January 30

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/comment/124267#Comment_124267

Yeah. Should have mentioned that.

It must be bizarre to be an entertainer and have to put on a good face to pay the bills while sometihing horrible is going on in the background.

Phil · January 30

https://www.djangobooks.com/forum/discussion/21719/remi-harris-on-that-pedal-show

Paul, thanks for posting this. Remi's such a talented player. Love the sound of his Fylde guitar. Would be great to see Remi at one of the US GJ festivals.

voutoreenie · January 30

That's absolutely tragic about his wife and unsurprisingly, he did look a bit removed during the interview so that sure adds a lot of context...just f*ck cancer.

lucky · January 30

Dani was a lovely person and basically Remi’s manager, a huge part of his success. A real loss to the gypsy jazz scene in the UK, we are all mourning her.

Jangle_Jamie · January 31

Great to see this interview. Nice guy and he speaks and explains the genre so well. I'm personally not a fan of the sound of his Fylde guitar - sounds too thin without much sweetness. But it's a personal thing!

billyshakes · January 31

Buco had mentioned Remi Harris to me before, but I admit I wasn't really familiar with his playing. Never seen clips or heard songs stream, etc. Definitely comes across as a decent guy. What I'm amazed at is his fluency in 2 completely different styles. It is one thing to hobby play in your practice room, etc, but he's doing professional shows playing Django style and then professional shows playing Peter Green. He even spoke about trying to keep the Django out of his Green playing. That is akin to having professional fluency in two different languages and would almost require him to see the fretboard in 2 completely different ways. That's what I'd like to hear more of in a future interview. What are those different mindmaps? Are there intersections?

I would suspect that the different pick and different picking styles (rest vs. altenate) help codify the 2 in separate sections, but I'd still be interested to hear how he personally experiences it.