Re: loops w/ live groups

["Jimmy Fowler" <jimfowler@prodigy.net>]

another group to use live looping: don caballero

but their last album, american don, relied too heavily on looping and every
song became a predictable overdub haven...like "ok, here's the basis...and
here comes the harmony...and now the counter-rhythm..." and some VERY
unnatural changes from one part to another.  fades into parts that had
little to do, harmonically with the previous parts.  this is one thing they
were very good at before they started looping.  they could put together
these crazy parts and they made perfect sense, but with the introduction of
guitar loops it just became repetative and predictable.

on the other hand, i think it's very easy to make the loop sound natural 
but
you have to build it so that getting out doesn't sound abrupt or unnatural.
otherwise it starts to sound like 5 seperate tracks mushed into one.

-jim