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Re: OT the Guitar as percussion instrument in Live Looping

The late great Eric Roche was a master at this sort of thing, although he never did any looping.  He even made use of a wear spot on the cedar top of his guitar for percussive rubbing sounds.  Here he is demonstrating some of his approaches:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=SdcQyOEnHv8

Here he is covering "Smells Like Teen Spirit":

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_zxZcUrfX0o&feature=related

and here's one of his tunes, "Roundabout" (not the Yes tune), which also has some two-handed stuff:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5rQVuyZNQ18


TH