Re: Synths considered harmful

[Shayne Cafferata <scafferata@dlcwest.com>]

> Guitar synths make matters worse. If a guitar player is looking to expand
> his or her tonal palette, a guitar synth will probably win out over a
> looper.

now dat's jes' plain silly. i'd love to have a repeater, etc. but i'm in 
the do with
what you have tax bracket and what i have is what i've found at yard sales 
and in
dusty corners of farmtown music stores over the past 20 years. among the 
collection
are some synth and guit synth gems i'd never part with(x911, gr300, 
juno106,
cz,dx,etc.). i've got it all fired up in space modular wheatfield mode 
underneath a
big nightsky delay. technically it's not looping, but everything's usually 
based
around 1 or two chords and subdivisions therein, lots of textural fader 
and knobplay
juxtaposed with cassettes of jerry falwell's paranoid armmaggedon and how 
to stop you
cat from scratching, etc. ok ok it's techno, but it's more root than 
rave(not that
there's anything wrong with rave) cuz i incorporate things like kalimba 
and dulcimer
and a straight guitar signal in there somewhere. anyway the point i was 
gonna make is
umm would i be allowed to loop my gr300 or my dulcimer thru the x911 and 
still be
welcome on the list? in the definition of looping i think that sound 
source and
procedure is secondary to the fact that an aurally encompassing 
meditative(or
abrasive) space is created. it's only the impact that matters. how the 
performer
achieves it is all wrapped up in the magic of individuality. woh, sappin' 
out a
little here...
seriously tho', with a gr33 and an edp before me and solomon saying choose 
one and
the other shall twice be halved in three, i would'nt hesitate to save the 
looper.
just don' ask me to trade in the x911 for one. well... maybe if it was 
straight
across...
ah dunno, how can one even compare - a guitarist looking to expand his 
tonal palette
in the context of a regyahler band(one that has at least 5 songs under 20 
minutes)
may very well choose a gr33. a guitarist with a pipeful of divinorium 
looking for a
ready guide in some celestial voice may very well choose a looper, or a 
shortwave, or
geddy lee. no not geddy lee. nevermind.
loop good. synth good. ith awl goood.
shayne