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Re: Re: average age of the looping community?



Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com schrieb am 10.02.03 19:09:16:
> 
> Well,
> 
> I'm a 49 year old father of 3 and husband of one woman 
> for 24 years so I guess that means I'm a guilty-as-charged,
> working class "family guy" in most respects. But I began 
> looping a rather long time ago -- long before kids anyway 
> (my oldest is 17). And, my imagination had been captured 
> by the possibilities of the old tape "echoplex" and loops 
> made on "altered" reel tape decks long before I'd even 
> met my wife in 1976.
> 
> I'd say that us older musicians with a steady jobs and stable
> situations are more able to procure, learn and hang on to
> some of this expensive, complicated gear -- and develop 
> a pretty good vision of what we wanna do with it. We may 
> not be as free to tour or take gigs (the down side of the
> "ties that bind") but we're no less passionate or creative
> about our activities -- IMHO. 
> 
> But, this is a pretty diverse list. No "ageism" is really possible.
> Andre LaFosse is a youngish (and, as far as I know) single guy
> who's utter mastery of the EDP knocks my socks off every
> time I hear him. There are awesome women loopers of all ages.
> And, although there seems to be a preponderance of guitar
> slingers here there are drummers, DJs, wind, key and kitchen
> utensil players too -- plus a handful that simply play the processing
> sans instrument (or processing as an instrument in itself).
> 
> There are goddesses, doctors, teachers, students, artists, 
> writers, waiters, democrats, republicans, anarchists, religionists, 
> atheists, agnostics, whatever . . . folk of every walk and stripe 
> of life here. And, I suspect, a pretty wide spread of ages too. 
> Folks with dark hair, grey hair, purple hair or no hair abound.
> This is a pretty complicated and colorful community.
> 
> tEd ® kiLLiAn
> 
> ArsOcarina@aol.com
> http://www.mp3s.com/tedkillian
> http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html
> http://www.mp3.com/Ophelia_Pancake
> 

when i see your mail adress, i've one question: do you play ocarina (i 
do!)?
andi paulo
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