![]() ![]() With a set list that included Homework, Pack Fair and Square and Whammer Jammer, the connection should have been blindingly apparent. I was even unaware of the influence the J.Geils Band had on my favourite UK outfit, Nine Below Zero. ![]() Worse still, I’d never heard of their harp man Magic Dick (aka Juke Joint Jimmy), the man with the sexy name and the crazy mane, who blew the back off his harps like a deranged pyrotechnician. I had no idea the Centerfold band played weapon grade R&B. As the musical mayhem unfolded, my jaw dropped and I stared into space bewitched. Bluntly (being an Ozzie), he made it clear I was playing a Whammer Jammer derivative, and he duly produced his Full House LP to prove the point.ĭropping the vinyl on the turntable and grinning, he guided the stylus to track four. ![]() However, a friend brought me tumbling back to reality and landing firmly on my arse. Innocently, I believed I’d established myself at the pinnacle of power harping. My Whammer Jammer tale begins many years ago, when I learned what I assumed was a unique harp instrumental called Swing Job by Nine Below Zero. Key of A major ten hole diatonics harps at the ready. Like the lunar landing, or the fall of the Berlin Wall, every power harp fan can remember when and where they were first Whammered! So, it’s time to reminisce a little, do some research and then, with the help of modern technology, deconstruct the song for you. It is a power harping beast of the highest order. Originally recorded on the J.Geils Band studio album The Morning After in 1971, Whammer Jammer reappeared a year later on the classic live album Full House. Here’s the top entry in our ‘ I wanna play like that’ hit list. These people are generally just failures at life and should be regarded as such.You gonna get it all down, get it all night, get it all right, get it out of sight and get it down baby? Also gas station and strip mall parking lots, and wherever the "scene" (bad local punk rock concerts) is. The normal habitats for whammers include the mall: around hot topic or the food court. Also of note is that sexuality is very hard to determine, as the males and females of the group appear nearly identical, and even the non-homosexuals exhibit many homosexual traits. Also in their mode of dress which is usually thrift store or hot topic shirts that are way too tight, studded belts, and extremely tight jeans. This is exhibited, most visibly in their hairstyles, almost always dyed black or red. Further one of the defining features is trying to look as much like each other as possible while claiming to be unique or individual. It is interesting to note that though whammers consider themselves the opposite of mainstream people, their groups are actually more cliquish than many other groups. A common behavior of their kind is to scare people out of picking on them by acting like they might shoot up a school or shopping mall. It is an appropriately derogatory term for geeks that adopt any of these social stereotypes in an attempt to fit in to a group. ![]() Whammer is a term that refers to rejects, particularly of the goth or punk variety, as well as emo-kids. ![]()
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