Off Topic-Experience Music Project

[KILLINFO@aol.com]

Hi there Loopfiends,

This is not particularly loop related but I would like to recommend to 
anyone 
who can plan a trip up to Seattle, WA to try make it up to the new 
Experience 
Music Project if you can. It is a terrific thing they (Paul Allen and Co.) 
have done for the music/creative community as well as being a tremendous 
amount of fun to boot.
You ought to try to get there some time if you ever have vacation plans 
that 
include the Pacific Northwest.

A little more on topic--at the grand opening festivities of the EMP 
mentioned 
above I went to see Bill Frisell (who was the last act of the last night 
of 
the grand opening weekend). He was awsome! It was the first time I'd ever 
seen him live (though I've been a fan since his days at ECM). His music 
alternately brought tears to my eyes for it's shear profundity or 
plastered a 
grin across my face to see how much fun he was having making it. 

There was some use of loops in almost every tune but more often than not 
only 
for short moments here and there--and pretty frequently as segues between 
songs. He mostly used just some little stomp box delays set up on a stool 
to 
do this. He didn't use any long delays at all and no other looping gear 
was 
anywhere to be seen. 

He was playing in a band that included 3 other guitarists (or 
banjo/mandolinists) so I suppose those guys were playing stuff that Bill 
might have played himself and used loops for if he were playing alone as 
he 
did on his most recent album. But there was such intense interplay between 
he 
and the musicians it's no surprise that he's chosen to do things this way 
now. 

T.Killian