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Mark! It's great to hear from you! Yes, I remember the old conversations we had in my gtr synth days, my gtr synth web page, etc. I'll check out your site and talk to you off line. West Coast Blues is an excellent tune. Peter Erskine...you're killing me, man...my favorite drummer (especially with Abercrombie). My god...the GR300 and the EDP...my mouth is watering. I can get close to that sound with my Boss footpedal synth setting....but it's just not that cool "grunty" horn/violin sound that Abercrombie and Metheny had. I've done some similar things as you with the standards, but it's the live time required to play and setup all the loops in front of the crowd that makes me cringe. Maybe I can get used to it. :) Cheers! Kris -----Original Message----- From: Mark Smart [mailto:mwsmart@insightbb.com] Sent: Sunday, September 19, 2004 7:43 PM To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com Subject: Re: Using Jazz Standards to Get Into a Venue for Looping Hi Kris. Remember me? We had conversations many years back about the Roland GR-300... I have built my looping setup almost entirely with the intention of doing jazz standards, maybe you can get some ideas from it: http://www.marksmart.net/gearhack/jazzpedalboard/jazzpedalboard.html I'm in the middle of totally rebuilding this setup since I just bought an Echoplex. I've been working up some more tunes using its added capabilites. The most recent one is Wes Montgomery's "West Coast Blues". I love the 'Plex!. I can make three loops for this song, one for the four-measure vamp on the Tadd Dameron-type turnaround, one for the head, and a third for soloing with the additional chromatic ii-V's like he plays on the recording. I use a 3/4 brush loop from the Peter Erskine sample CD for the drums. Unfortunately, I can't offer much in the way of advice about getting gigs because that's definitely not my strong point. I've only done a couple of gigs with the existing setup, but my intention was to go manily for gigs at restaurants, bookstores, and other places where they want low-volume music. I dunno if bars that normally have jazz groups would want some tech-head with a bunch of pedals! But I intend to try and see how it goes. Mark Smart http://www.marksmart.net/