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49 = 7 X 7 for me did my first looping performance in 1980 with TAO ELECTRICAL which was a spinoff group of popular new wave band I was in, TAO CHEMICAL. Didn't do another one until the release of the lexicon JAMMAN (redubbed the JAMPERSON for our politically correct and non-sexist People's Republic of Santa Cruz audiences.** At the end of our set at an electronic music concert (with Dr. Richard Zvonar and Bob Beede on the bill, by the way) each of the members of this trio (bass, guitar and drums = me) recorded a loop onto three original tube echoplexes with erase disengaged (manually, i believe but I didn't actually do that so I can't say for sure) and, one by one, we walked of into the audience and let the performance continue by itself. I thought we were doing something that had never been done before (because I wasn't influenced by anyone to think up the idea) but have since, due to that same academic genius, Dr. Zvonar come to find that it was all old hat by that time. Noone in that audience had ever heard it (which is true of most of the audiences that I play for still, to this day.....LOL. A couple of years later, a guy just reminded me a couple of months ago, he saw me at the old UNION GROVE (pre-earthquake) playing one of the original digital delays and I had it on an infinite repeat and was singing faux pygmy yodelling into it with a really primitive harmonizer. I had completely forgotten this as I was poor as a church mouse (living off of really 'out of the box' music at the time) and couldn't possibly afford the gear I was drooling over until this guy reminded me. He said, "You've been looping for 20 years, man". It startled me because the instant the Lexicon Jamman came out, I bought one and ended up playing them for 8 years (ultimately three of them synchronized with midi) until I purchased the DL-4. I did my recent live CD with two of those until I bought my Repeater and added it to the madness. Then, just recently I got my first EDP with loop 4: whole new ballgame again. I have the Repeater feeding the EDP (through AUX 1) and the EDP feeding the Repeater (through AUX 2) and have retired my DL4s (that I love dearly) for everything except my PORTABLE BUSKING LOOPING RIG which consists of a battery powered head set mic, battery powered mini amplifier, battery bowered DL4, battery powered Boss Intellishifter all feeding into a dweeby, little girls plastic portable CD amplifier made of, you guessed it, TRANSLUCENT DAYGLO LIME GREEN PLASTIC!!! This is all velcroed onto a high school marching drum apparatus made of aluminum. I think there are photos of me by Ted Killian on my website if my webmistress (wow, it gets me hot calling my wife that......LOL) has put them up yet. LOOP ON! rick walker (aka.loop.pool) www.looppool.info *I still have the little graphics kit to change the front panel graphics of the JAMMAN to say JAMPERSON if anyone else thinks this is appropos, as I do. E-mail me off list and I'll get one out to you if I can find it........lol