Re: OT: Integrity of Performance and the Sample

["matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>]

Ah, so this is where this discussion started! Sometimes, you'll see a 
guitar 
stand on stage that holds the guitar at the level you'd be playing it. If 
you could find these for the guitars and basses, that could go pretty far 
for solving your problem, and would make for a great show if you could 
build 
something close to your album tracks doing only live looping from 2 people!

If you can't do that, I'd suggest you ask yourself these questions:

How much of your band's identity depends on the tracks being like the ones 
on the album? Were you invited to play album tracks? Or just to do a show? 
Would it work for you and your bandmate to bring all of your equipment, 
and 
play stripped down songs, or newly written songs, or just improvise to 
show 
what can be done by two people in a live setting?

If you go this route, you don't have to switch instruments every 4 bars. I 
think if you manage to cover the ones you bring, people will be impressed. 
For example, you could do a song between keyboards and DJ booth, with one 
of 
them building a rhythm loop in the beginning, then another song on guitar 
and bass, then another on some other combination.

Matt

>From: lindsay@pavestone.com
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: loopers-delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: OT: Integrity of Performance and the Sample
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 09:35:17 -0600
>
>Ok, guys/gals, a dilemma:
>
>My collaborator and I have been recording together for a while now and 
>have
>got some good material together, we think.  We're proud of it.  As we were
>recording, it was easy to include two guitars, bass, keyboards and rhythm
>despite the fact that it's just me and him.
>
>However, we've been given the opportunity to play live at a fairly cool 
>gig
>(North by Northgate--for any of you Aggies) and are now faced with the
>grueling task of adapting our recorded material for live performance.
>Other than finding a drummer, bass player, keyboardist and DJ, how do we
>best approach this?  There is a philosophical resistance to just playing 
>to
>tape.  My current solution is reducing each arrangement to its barest
>necessity, sequencing the whole thing and then choreographing the
>performance: "ok, for this song, I'll start out playing the guitar figure.
>Then, right before the chorus, I'll pick up the bass and play this line
>while the guitar is played by a sample triggered from the sequencer.  
>After
>that, I'll switch back to guitar and play sustained chords, so that my
>right hand is free to play the counter melody on the keyboard.  And
>then...."  When someone asked why we were upset with the delay in the
>Repeater's release, this is my justification: a four-track loop sampler
>could do wonders for us.
>
>I see myself sweating.
>
>And falling over on stage on my way back to the bass.
>

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