I posed this question on the MBH forum but I thought I'd ask here as well to get the experts' opinion. I've started playing out a bit - some jams, but also a couple of times where a friend has called me up to play with his band at a gig. He plays harp but also guitar, and we've done Red Rooster both times with him on guitar. That worked pretty well - not that I was great, but I know the song well enough to sound okay. Last night he asked me to also play with him on Billy Boy Arnold's great song "I Wish You Would," and he played harp. This presented a couple of issues. While I used to listen to this song a lot and play along, I haven't done it in a long time. So, first, I really didn't know it, and, second, my friend is one of the best harp players in the Northwest so I probably wasn't going to sound too good playing the same thing as him. What I tried to do was to do fills in between his solos for the most part. That kind of worked (no one threw anything), but was pretty limited. Also, this didn't seem to me to be the kind of song where you can play a lot of chords to complement another harp. Would playing another position have worked, perhaps first (he was in second)? I mess around with this sometimes - playing third position on Sonny Boy's "My Younger Days" sounds good along with his second position, and same goes for Gary Primich's "Save It Up For Me." Any suggestions?
Thanks. Rich
