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Just so you all know . . . Bill was using a EH-16 back in 1986 (and probably before) to do looping-at least live, I can't remember any of his recordings with looping on 'em, maybe some of the things that he did with Tim Berne . . . He was the first guy I ever heard using an EH-16 to do this and it inspired a friend of mine to go search one out. So I don't exactly think that he's tip-toeing into looping at this point. steuart p.s. last heard Bill's EH-16 finally broke and he was looking for one . . . anyone feeling generous? > ---------- > From: Fmplautus@aol.com > Reply To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com > Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 1998 11:20 AM > To: LiebigSA@maritz.com > Subject: Cool Looper Alert > > Anybody check out the new Bill Frissell album, GONE LIKE A TRAIN? > > Interesting, spare, sinewy, ice skater- like loops at the end of > track 6, > LOOKOUT FOR HOPE, and track 16 -- no title and officially not a "tune" > but at > the end of the CD in a kind of sneaky Beatlesque White Album way. We > think > tracks six looping is especially musical -- again at the end of the > piece. > > It's interesting to see Friessell tip-toeing into looping. We really > like the > way he used the loops to enhance his style of playing jazz guitar. > (The way > he plays reminds us of turn of the century "parlor" guitar that's been > warped > by Thelonius Monk.) Frissell has absored "play the spaces" from > Monk, and > from what we hear his looping forays are about that. > > It's also an alternative looping universe to the dense "texture" > looping that > we all know and love, just as his guitar playing is a healthy antidote > to the > "velocity" single voice playing that has denominated electric guitar > in the > last decade. > > But will Frissell only continue to flirt with looping, or will he flat > out > make a commitment and bring her home to mama? He seems to be becoming > more > popular. > > Best, > the LoOpdOctOrs >