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Re: average age of the looping community



Wow my birthday is december 13th as well, i turned 29

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jimmy George Band" <jg@jimmygeorgeband.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:11 AM
Subject: Re: average age of the looping community


> is that in loop years rick???
>
> i just turned 36 dec 13th
>
> life is good...
>
> http://www.jimmygeorgearts.com
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:44 PM
> Subject: average age of the looping community
>
>
> > 49 =  7 X 7   for me
> >
> > did my first looping performance in 1980 with TAO ELECTRICAL
> > which was a spinoff group of popular new wave band I was in, TAO
CHEMICAL.
> > Didn't do another one until the release of the lexicon JAMMAN (redubbed
> the
> > JAMPERSON
> > for our politically correct and non-sexist People's Republic of Santa
Cruz
> > audiences.**
> >
> > At the end of our set at an electronic music concert (with Dr. Richard
> > Zvonar and Bob Beede on the bill, by the way)  each of the members of
this
> > trio (bass, guitar and drums = me) recorded a loop onto three original
> tube
> > echoplexes with erase disengaged (manually, i believe but I didn't
> actually
> > do that so I can't say for sure) and, one by one,
> > we walked of into the audience and let the performance continue by
itself.
> > I thought we were doing something that had never been done before
(because
> I
> > wasn't influenced by anyone to think up the idea) but have since, due 
>to
> > that same
> > academic genius, Dr. Zvonar come to find that it was all old hat by 
>that
> > time.
> >
> > Noone in that audience had ever heard it (which is true of most of the
> > audiences that I
> > play for still, to this day.....LOL.
> >
> > A couple of years later, a guy just reminded me a couple of months ago,
he
> > saw me
> > at the old UNION GROVE (pre-earthquake) playing one of the original
> digital
> > delays and I had it on an infinite repeat and was singing faux pygmy
> > yodelling
> > into it with a really primitive harmonizer.
> >
> > I had completely forgotten this as I was poor as a church mouse (living
> off
> > of
> > really 'out of the box' music at the time) and couldn't possibly afford
> the
> > gear
> > I was drooling over until this guy reminded me.
> >
> > He said,  "You've been looping for 20 years, man".
> >
> > It startled me because the instant the Lexicon Jamman came out, I 
>bought
> one
> > and ended
> > up playing them for 8 years (ultimately three of them synchronized with
> > midi) until
> > I purchased the DL-4.
> >
> > I did my recent live CD with two of those until I bought my Repeater 
>and
> > added it to the
> > madness.
> >
> > Then, just recently I got my first EDP with loop 4:   whole new 
>ballgame
> > again.
> >
> > I have the Repeater feeding the EDP (through AUX 1) and the EDP feeding
> the
> > Repeater
> > (through AUX 2) and have retired my DL4s (that I love dearly) for
> everything
> > except
> > my
> >
> > PORTABLE BUSKING LOOPING RIG  which consists of a battery powered head
set
> > mic, battery powered mini amplifier, battery bowered DL4, battery
powered
> > Boss Intellishifter
> > all feeding into a dweeby, little girls plastic portable CD amplifier
made
> > of,
> > you guessed it,  TRANSLUCENT DAYGLO LIME GREEN PLASTIC!!!
> >
> > This is all velcroed onto a high school marching drum apparatus made of
> > aluminum.
> > I think there are photos of me by Ted Killian on my website if my
> > webmistress (wow, it gets me hot calling my wife that......LOL) has put
> them
> > up yet.
> >
> > LOOP ON!
> >
> > rick walker (aka.loop.pool)
> > www.looppool.info
> >
> >
> > *I still have the little graphics kit to change the front panel 
>graphics
> of
> > the JAMMAN
> > to say JAMPERSON if anyone else thinks this is appropos, as I do.
E-mail
> me
> > off list
> > and I'll get one out to you if I can find it........lol
> >
> >
>