Paying Attention to Your Gear

["Clayton Gary Lehmann" <healthquestrecruiter@earthlink.net>]

Thanks Mark for bringing this back on topic--
I did a live, no tech gig tonight, and I looked at the other players
plenty--visual feedback--of course, this was a no rehearsal situation,
although I had played years ago with each of the two guys in different 
gigs.
But my realization is, one normally pays attention to the other "players";
our situation as loopers is that the other players are created by
technology.
But I still have to make sure my looping devices are in the right state
before, during and after beginning a "change"; people require much less
maintainence 8^)
Gary

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Hamburg [mailto:mark_hamburg@baymoon.com]
Sent: Friday, March 21, 2003 9:50 PM
To: Looper's Delight
Subject: Re: Performance Tricks for the Shy Looper


on 3/21/03 4:19 AM, Rick Walker/Loop.pooL at GLOBAL@cruzio.com wrote:

> oh yeah, and mark hamburg, when the lights are so strong that you can't
see
> the audience:   pretend you can and stare intently out into the lights,
with
> your gaze just below where the intensity is greatest (so as not to blind
> yourself)..........stare, in essence, at where you think that last person
in
> the audience is.............people cannot tell that you are not 
>connecting
> directly with them when you do this and it is a very effective little
> performance trick.

The interesting thing is that I all but have a theater degree and the 
lights
were never an issue when acting. Maybe it's because when acting I don't 
have
all of this equipment (including my guitar) that would like attention.

Mark