RE: Performance Tricks for the Shy Looper

[Lee Barnes <PhaedeBack@comcast.net>]

Along those lines, one thing that Anthony Phillips used to do was to either
look at the neck of the instrument he was playing, or to look over the
audience.  The former was of course after he got over his severe stage
fright and the latter came to him after he became more comfortable with
playing in front of people.  Damn, I'm dating myself on this one, aren't I?
Another trick that seems almost counter intuitive to the problem is to
actually make the point of including the audience in your performance, and
this way it becomes less an issue of people staring at you while you're on
your lonesome in the light, but that they've just become extensions of
yourself, a trick that you'll see Fish use quite effectively.  Several 
other
bands/performers do this, too!

Peace Out, Loop extended, phase on,


Lee

-----Original Message-----
From: chrismandel@juno.com [mailto:chrismandel@juno.com]
Sent: Saturday, March 22, 2003 10:54 PM
To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: Performance Tricks for the Shy Looper


heres an idea: If you can't look at and conect to the audience, try
expressing yourself in another way.  Exagate all of your movments.  If
you're pushing a botton, give your wrist and forearm a little up swing (but
be careful not to hit it too hard obviously).  If your twisting a nob, give
it a little elbow.  These little things alow you to give your equipment the
attention it needs while give the audience somthing to look at.  -chris




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