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Re: Peter Leinhos etc.



I once read about a band that did a tour on bicycles. They carried a small PA and two bicycle-powered generators. They did open air gigs and always recruited two members of the audience to power their concert by pedaling during the gig.
Cool concept.


2011/5/19 Steve Uccello <stevebassbird@yahoo.com>
HA HA! I'm sure somebody somewhere has banks of deep cycle marine batteries and some kind of charging system (solar or pedal) hooked up to a PA & Looping stuff -But hey, I think we already have enough gear to haul around to shows already without all that!! Seriously though, I have been wanting to get one of those VOX DA5 battery powered amps that Bill was talking about in that "small battery powered amp" thread a while ago-It would be fun to busk somewhere (or play in the woods) and loop sometime.



--- On Wed, 5/18/11, Daniel Thomas <danielthomas4@mac.com> wrote:

> From: Daniel Thomas <danielthomas4@mac.com>
> Subject: Re: Peter Leinhos etc.
> Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 6:12 PM
> Such an insightful thread this has
> been.  Long Live Peter Leinhos. RAH!!!
>
> > Pedal powered PA-looping system?! I guess you couldn't
> pedal and have your feet free to push the buttons though!
>
> Funny you should mention it... I once played around with a
> modification to an exercise bike that would govern tempo (or
> any CC value) based on the front wheel speed and and send
> separate MIDI CC messages based on cycle counts of the front
> wheel.  It wasn't pedal powered per se, but it was
> pedal controlled.  It could easily be adapted to
> generate low voltage too. (Never mind the crazy project had
> me trying to do this.) This device, and several other wacky
> controller concepts are all shoved in a corner of my attic
> now.  Perhaps after the apocalypse and rapture I'll get
> around to making some post apocalyptic blues music with
> them.  Or..  I could just burn in hell with the
> rest of the laggards. 
>
> Eternal hell fire... thats a kind of looping right?
>
> Daniel
> On  May 18, 2011, at 5:32 PM, Steve Uccello wrote:
>
> > Benton PUD!! I used to live in Spokane and always
> drove thru that neck of the woods back & forth from
> Santa Cruz, CA, I remember on tour once in Idaho coming
> across a town that claimed proudly to be the 'first in the
> USA' to have a nuclear power plant, it had a trippy vibe. I
> keep hearing Thorium is the 'safe' way to go with nuclear
> power, but if push comes to shove, can we invent a pedal
> powered PA-looping system?! I guess you couldn't pedal and
> have your feet free to push the buttons though!
> >
> > --- On Wed, 5/18/11, bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> >
> >> From: bill bigrig <billbigrig@yahoo.com>
> >> Subject: Peter Leinhos etc.
> >> To: loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> >> Date: Wednesday, May 18, 2011, 4:30 PM
> >> Howdy,
> >>
> >> Come to the Tri-cities in WA. No flouride. Might
> find some
> >> plutonium, cesium, strontium, and other
> trans-uranic type
> >> stuff Though.
> >> Rig
> >>
> >>
> >
>
>




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