Video Hosting

Over the weekend I went to mark Hummel’s harmonica blowout featuring my heroes Charlie Musslewhite and Kim Wilson. Kim Wilson is the reason that I took up harmonica playing. I took some pictures with Justine’s camera. The fancy Kodak takes movies so I took some video of Linda Geiger playing drums in the big finale. Linda is a blues drummer and I met her at one of the local jams. She plays drums for my brother’s band when she can schedule it. It turns out that she knew all the famous harp players at the blowout and they called her up on stage at the end.

The video was 106 megs and therefore too big for YouTube.com. I could not get the google video beta to work at all. I tried several other video hosting solutions and I got Grouper.com to work, but my favorite is Vimeo.com. Grouper did a good enough job, but they put a grouper watermark on the video. Vimeo was much faster and I think I’ll use vimeo as a better choice over Youtube or Grouper.

It’s too bad that the finale was such an uninteresting song. Kim tried to liven it up, but the song dragged in spite of Linda, guitar player Rusty Zinn, and Kim Wilson trying to kick it from time to time.
I will have more video and lots of pictures of me annoying the talent on jt30.com and harpamps.com. I had a good long conversation with Kim Wilson about various microphone topics. He uses a t-3 modified by Dennis Gruenling. I like Dennis, but I do a better job on the T-3’s.