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It's the official "Kim Flint's Once-Per-Month In-Depth and Philosophically Intriguing Post!" :) Kim Flint wrote: > It also seems entirely possible that he was not looping at all, > but gave the impression that he was because that was more entertaining. > From the audience's perspective that would still be looping, wouldn't >it? > They would believe it was looping, so that would have been effectively > popularizing the concept, even if he was fooling them. This is such an interesting thing to think about, in light of the recent thread on whether looping is boring to watch - the idea that someone would pretend to be doing this specifically BECAUSE it's an engaging thing for the audience to be watching. On a Paul-related note, I saw Jon Brion (LA area producer, session musician, and all-around jaw-dropping talent) a couple of months ago at his weekly showcase at a club called Largo. He did a lot of live looping in his show, with both a Repeater and an EDP. One of his patented tricks is having the audience make a request, which he then pulls off strictly from memory, and he closed his set with an EDP and guitar piece which he announced as a tribute to Les Paul. He played the audience request (a George Harrison tune) in Les' guitar style, overdubbing numerous layers with the EDP and then playing over the loops. It was evidently an homage to the looping which Les may or may not have actually been doing way back when... Insert witty and knowing end-of-post comment here, --Andre LaFosse http://www.altruistmusic.com