Re[2]: Loopy Mood I'm In

[Mike.Biffle@wj.com (Mike Biffle)]

Someone...
<< Shit, you name a
 popular genre and I've probably performed it at one point or another!
 Folk, rock, country, blues, gospel, pop, classical, bluegrass, jazz,
 traditional, avant-garde.  I imagine that most of the members of LD can
 say the same. >>

billfox@lucent.com writes:
> The point is to save time and perform them all simultaneously.

It seems like with looping and the crowd that frequents this list, we ARE 
mixing
the genres all up and doing them simultaneously!..

It's the weirdest thing... I'll play my solo loop stuff and free improv, 
and end
up using all 4-6 of my fuzzes and it all sounds really great. I get called 
to do
a genre specific gig and end up using one clean sound, one od sound and 
one lead
sound (Usually not a fuzz either...) It's the weirdest thing. When I've 
been 
involved in writing projects from inception, my sounds usually get 
incorporated,
but man!.. it's amazing how the "standard" sounds of various genres, 
(almost) 
define the genre... 

After so many years of wacked out playing, it's (again... almost) a 
disappointment, kind of weird, to pull the reigns in and play "in form" on 
a 
gig. (It's also usually a lot of fun just to play and interact in any 
genre of 
music... to apply yourself to interpreting the form...) I guess if I had 
the 
time to do a variety of genre specific projects, I'd get my fill of them 
all and
feel less constricted by any single style. Is this something the rest of 
you 
experience?

-Miko