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I'd also like to voice my appreciation for the remarkable effort put in by Hans and company, and for the wonderful music and camaraderie of the event. This is truly a fine group, and I was especially glad that I decided to hang out until Sunday to have brunch with eleven other loopers at a damn fine restaurant in SLO. Several people remarked about the quality of the event. It was certainly one of the smoothest self-regulating technical concert situations I've experienced outside of a fully professional production. The "house" team had established a solid infrastructure, and this enabled the rest of us to slide into our slots with a minimum of fuss. Everyone arrived with their gear pretty well organized, so even though there were a few minor glitches there was no complete melt-down. I'm sorry I wasn't able to devote 100% of my attention to all the other artists. I spent a fair amount of time with headphones one, getting my own system ready and figuring out what I was goint to do (I realize in retrospect that the last time I did this sort of performance was more than three years ago!). Among those whose sets I did catch in their entirety were Jon and Matthias, Rick Walker, Ted and Dr. Bob, Tom Heasley, and Bill Walker. The Walkers are old friends (since the mid-70s!) from Santa Cruz, and I've had the chance to see both perform recently. I have a particular fondness for Rick's fine madness, and I've had a couple of recent opportunities to participate in it under the redwoods and in a retired bank. Bill has always been a terrific guitarist, but I am really knocked out by the clarity of both his playing and his compositional process. It was certainly a treat and an honor to finally meet Matthias after all these years, especially in the company of Gary Hall and Larry "the O" Oppenheimer. I started performing with the PCM-42 back in 1982 and over the years I've been privileged to become friends with its creator and with other practitioners of the fine art of DSP-based performance. It's great to hang out socially with the creators of such tools and to find out they have weaknesses for such things as Komodo dragons. -- ______________________________________________________________ Richard Zvonar, PhD (818) 788-2202 http://www.zvonar.com http://RZCybernetics.com http://www.cybmotion.com/aliaszone http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?autostart=rz