Y2K8: Software Loopers and Hardware Loopers

[Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com>]

Coming out of my post loopfestival coma that I always seem to go
into each year,   I noticed a really surprising thing at the 
loopfestival this year:

 From being on this list I just assumed that the festival would be 
increasingly dominated by laptop
live loopers but by a cursory count (and this is very cursory)  I think 
I only saw three or four people
using laptops in their sets.    Everybody else (35-40 artists)  were 
using hardware.

I was shocked by this.

Maybe the hardware people on the list just aren't as vociferous or as 
prolific as posters
as the software people.

What do you'all   think?