Re: Loopevangelism: another success story

["Larry Tremblay" <ltct@concentric.net>]

Good job. I recently "converted" my teenage nephew to
looping. He loops guitar, drum machine, record player and
radio and approaches it with fresh ears. It keeps him out
of trouble, which is a side benefit since he's a latch-key
kid.

Do most loopers feel compelled to convert others to
looping?

>I mean, we could keep flaming Larry, but that's
> gotten kind of old... :^)

Agree. ;)

- Larry T

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tim Nelson" <tcn62@ici.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 10:19 AM
Subject: Loopevangelism: another success story


> Some of you may remember several months back when I related an incident 
>in
> which I stuck a microphone into the back of a "purist" friend's amp
without
> him knowing to discreetly snag some input from him to loop through my rig
> while we were jamming. (He said afterwards "Wow, that thing you were 
>doing
> went PERFECTLY with what I was playing!" to which I replied, "It
should've.
> It WAS what you were playing!") Until then, he seemed to view looping as 
>a
> "gimmick" or a "crutch", and while he had formerly stood over a pretty
> impressive tract of pedalboard, was at the time of our jam playing a lot
of
> acoustic fingerstyle and when on electric, using very few effects.
>
> Well, he was favorably impressed by the fun I was having with my toys. 
>The
> following is an extract of an e-mail I just got from him:
>
> ************************************************************************
> >...The other night I sampled a few simple chords with the DL4, reversed
it,
> >dropped it to half speed, sent it through a delay and ring modulator,
then
> >sampled a small bit of that with the headrush which was sent to my
Princeton
> >cranked all the way with tremolo. [ed: his main amp is a TopHat, and 
>he's
> now using a four amp setup.] The result was this terrifying throbbing
> >industrial backing loop which was one of the cooler things I've ever
heard
> >come out of my junk. (The wife came screaming downstairs yelling 'that's
the
> >most annoying thing I've ever heard' so I know it must have been good)
Then
> >I cleared everything and tried to do it again to see if I could 
>duplicate
it
> >with absolutely no luck. Ahh, the ephemeral nature of looping. I need to
get
> >a board for recording on my computer asap...
> **********************************************************************
>
> Is that beautiful, or what? The loop bug's done bit him good...
>
> Have any of you got any anecdotes regarding "converting" your non-looping
> musical acquaintances? I mean, we could keep flaming Larry, but that's
> gotten kind of old... :^)
>
> Tim
>
>
>