Re: average age of the looping community

["Jimmy George Band" <jg@jimmygeorgeband.com>]

happy birthday d. swain!

jg
http://www.jimmygeorgearts.com


----- Original Message -----
From: David Swain <d.swain@blueyonder.co.uk>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 12:17 AM
Subject: Re: average age of the looping community


> Wow my birthday is december 13th as well, i turned 29
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Jimmy George Band" <jg@jimmygeorgeband.com>
> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:11 AM
> Subject: Re: average age of the looping community
>
>
> > is that in loop years rick???
> >
> > i just turned 36 dec 13th
> >
> > life is good...
> >
> > http://www.jimmygeorgearts.com
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:44 PM
> > Subject: average age of the looping community
> >
> >
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>
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