Frisell @ the Vanguard

["Sean Witters" <seanwitters@hotmail.com>]

I caught the first set on Thursday night, Frisell used a lot of looping.  
He 
had his EH 16 Second Delay resting on-top of his foam clad Lexicon Lxp-5 
all 
within easy reach on a stool.  He tapped in and out and tweaked levels and 
reversed loops with his hands (no dancing involved).  He was focused on 
capturing motifs from his solos and then playing against them or bringing 
them back later.  He seemed vary much at home with the EH and was able to 
create some very interesting and musical effects with it.  One particular 
moment which stands out; is when he brought back a particularly nasty 
bluesy 
lick ladden with tubescreamer (that's right no RAT)after a long quiet 
section on a dimminuendo which might have been interpreted as a fade out.  
The nasty lick (playing back in reverse mode) kicked the song back in and 
he 
launched into a raunchy outro solo. The achieved effect was clearly 
amusing 
to Bill.  His performance is a testimony to the value of being intimately 
connected to all instruments in one's signal chain.  There are other 
devices 
which might have been more efficient but he has clearly spent a lot of 
time 
developing his own techinique for manipulating his chosen foil and from 
that 
kind of intimate knowledge one always yields more original and musical 
effects.


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