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Yes i must admit that ive also had very positive
responses as well and people complimenting and showing
curiosity.The funny thing is that at loop shows is
mostly females who´ve come up to me and said nice
things...i always thought looping was more of a boy
with repeating toyz thing...;-)
Luis
--- David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote:
> At 1:58 AM -0700 10/7/05, Luis Angulo wrote:
>
> >i did a loop show at an art
> >gallery and as i was bulding up some guitar loops
> as i
> >heard a guy commenting next to me "oh
> yeah,nice,sure
> >but thats no art playing through prerecorded stuff"
> >this agreviated me because i had already taken the
> >time to explain the audience briefly what i was
> doing
> >and that same guy was there!
>
> Ack! That is annoying. But I think there's always
> going to be some
> wiseass who thinks he's being fooled.
>
> In my experience, most people are surprised and
> delighted when they
> figure out that it's one guy playing four or five
> guitars at a time.
>
> Whenever I have an opportunity to explain what's
> going on, I make a
> very careful point of saying it's all done in real
> time.
>
> Looping isn't the center of what I do. I'm a
> songwriter who uses
> looping to enhance his performance. I almost always
> begin with a
> loop improvisation, starting with a simple chord
> pattern or
> single-note line, but it fairly quickly leads into a
> song. I use the
> loop device to capture the changes so I can play a
> solo later - that
> kind of thing.
>
> There's always gonna be someone who dismissed this
> stuff as
> gimmickry. There's always gonna be some
> condescending (and
> ill-informed) asshole in the crowd. Screw 'em.
>
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
> Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102,
> Oakland CA 94610-2730
>
>
www.luis-angulo.com
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