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SUBMITTED: Roger Miller "Elemental Guitar" (SST) ~Tim -----Original Message----- >From: Stephen Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net> >Sent: Feb 13, 2006 8:22 AM >To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com >Subject: Re: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> >To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >Sent: Monday, 13 February, 2006 08:16 AM >Subject: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's > > >> Hi Loopers, >> >> Every now and then we discuss ideas for the Looper's Delight Essential >> Listening section. It's that time again! >> >> The last time we discussed this was in 2003, and a lot of great >> recommendations came out of that discussion. At that time we tried to >> focus on the 1990's. I've finally incorporated those listening >> recommendations into the latest incarnation of the Essential Listening >> Loopography: >> >> http://www.loopers-delight.com/loopography/Records.html >> >> If you haven't been there recently, check it out. I've added a bunch of >> new entries based on submissions from many of you. >> >> This time around, I'd like to focus on the 1980's. What were the >essential >> recordings from the 1980's that every looper ought to listen to? Please >> propose your ideas and let's discuss it! Please include a paragraph or >two >> about why you think that recording is essential for looping. >> >> So, what makes something an essential recording for looping? There are >no >> hard and fast guidelines. >> >> They might be recordings where new ideas or techniques in looping were >> first introduced, or where looping was first heard in a type of music >> where it hadn't been used before, or with an instrument where it hadn't >> been used before, or recordings/artists that influenced a lot of people >to >> become interested in looping or expand their abilities as loopers, or >> simply a perfect example of looping from a legendary looping artist. >> >> Another thing we learned in 2003 is that proposing yourself as >essential >> probably won't go over very well. :-) >> >> Also, there were several good recommendations made last time where >nobody >> supplied a good review paragraph to go with it. I still need somebody >to >> write a good review about why these albums are essential for looping: >> Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall (1981) > >I'll do my best! Didn't anyone submit "Under Heavy Manners/God Save the >King/Queen"? > >> Please help me out with that if you are familiar with these albums! >> >> You may be interested in reading some of the 2003 discussion on this if >> you weren't around for it, it is quite amusing: >> >http://www.loopers-delight.com/cgi-bin/wilma_glimpse/LDarchive?query=essential&Search=Search&restricttofiles=on&filelist=200307&filelist=200306&errors=0&maxfiles=1000&maxlines=10&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields=restricttofiles&.cgifields=filelist&.cgifields=partial&.cgifields=case >> >> Ok, discuss! >> >> kim >> >> >> ______________________________________________________________________ >> Kim Flint | Looper's Delight >> kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com >> >> >> >> >> >