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> >Not only that, but bringing the technique into the "masses" and >beyond guitarists will help. Though most of us are guitarists, I >find some guitarists are the most uptight about checking out things >beyond three octave Yngwie arpeggios (or whatever the new gymnastic >flavor is). When my band plays live, the other musicians are interested >in how the sounds are created and how we arrange our tunes, but most >"rock and roll" guitar types think it's a crutch. They listen with their >eyes and not their ears. This I believe is true, I played around town long before I got my looping rig, so people who I know can tell I can really play, even though now that I tend to loop a lot, it doesnt LOOK like Im doing all that much. Hell, Ive gotten sneers when guitarists look at my half filled 6 space rack and the Strat with a synth pickup. Oh well. And for some reason I always feel the need to explain the technology sometime in the set. I try to explain that nothing is prerecorded at home, that it is composed live, etc. Here in Florida, there is a bevy of sequenced 'Brown Eyed Girl' musicians playing around ( "Hey, anyone here from out of town??")..so i explain what I am doing, without using tems like 'looping' and 'sequencing' and 'midi' (a difficult task, indeed!). I don't usually play where there is an audience full of musicians (although I did a solo looping demo at the Florida Guitar Show last week, very cool..)..most audiences ARE the 'masses'. They will be 'assimilated'. :) Dave Eichenberger ********************************************************************* 'Future Perfect' - progressive art music - visit our website at: http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Lofts/8082