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I think the only people tha care about how we are looping are loopers themselves;-) I recently played in an ol Pub where i played good ol acoustic covers from Neil Young,Dylan,ELP,Zeppelin etc.using loops.Sometimes i looped my Cajon as a backbeat,sometimes druming on the guitar or using bass lines with an octaver and sometimes i just played and sang without any looping.I could tell how some people were sort of curious looking at those weird boxes flashing i was stomping on.But between breaks and at the end of the show,from all of the people that came up to me,none of them comented,asked how i was doing what i was doing or seemed interested on the equipment,instead they raved on the good ol songs i was doing and how cool the cajon sounded...;-) but what made me crack up is how some dude that was helping out in the bar said,hey next time cool sequencer i also have one in my yamaha keyboard with great sounds;-)and then a woman bartender said" that was lovely but playing with other people is still nice,dont you think? then i thought why am i still hauling all this crap around! cheers Luis --- Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote: > Actually, I care quite a bit HOW it's done ...it > doesn't lessen the > magic of the performance. In fact for me, it deepens > the expereince > knowing what the performers is doing to accomplish > their feats. > > I had a friend who, along with his father, were > accomplished > magicians. They would DELIBERATELY show how they did > a trick. They > made it perfectly clear to the point that I could do > it as well ... > but to watch them do the trick was still a delight > because what I was > know seeing was their mastery of the trick (this > was, BTW, years > before Penn and Teller began their "debunking" > approach to magic). > > The same goes for how this video was done ... > someone says this guy is > looping, I want to see HOW he is using the tools. > And you can't see it > with this video. I think the real fault, if there is > one to be laid, > is with WIRED for their presentation ... but I guess > if it means that > David will get more listeners then "it's all good." > > Sure the guy is definitely talented and I'm not > trying to take that > away from him. I'm sorry I won't be able to make it > in to Boston to > night to catch him at the Paradise to see him do > this live. But I'm > pretty convinced now that what we saw in this video > was not David > doing an actual recording of that song. > > Dennis > > On 4/22/08, Steve Lawson <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk> > wrote: > > It's an 'artist's impression' of a real > performance - I've seen David live a > > few times, he's great, and does indeed loop in > that way with, I think, an > > RC-20 (though he has a violinist he sometimes > works with who has a more > > complex set-up IIRC). > > > > I'm pretty sure that that is 'reconstructed', the > way that his 'one take' > > video for State Of the Union was... > > > > ...all of which is a techie-geek distraction from > his lovely songwriting. > > Who really gives an eff how it's done? :o) > > > > Steve > > > > Where to find me on the web - > > _______________________ > > ********************************* > > *** www.stevelawson.net - site > > *** http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog > > *** www.myspace.com/solobassstevelawson > > *** www.reverbnation.com/stevelawson > > *** www.twitter.com/solobasssteve > > *** http://www.youtube.com/user/StevieSteve46 - > loads of > > new video here! > > > > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ