Re: One Guitarist, One Drummer was: Altered Tunings

["Nevyn Nowhere" <nevynnowhere@gmail.com>]

I'm working with various vocalists and drummers to be a variety of two to three person connections.  Me looping melodies (keyboard/guitar/dulcimer/yan qin/accordian/etc) and also beats going with the beats played live (live looping style).  Next big show should be showing off one or both of those.  Sometimes even loop my own beats, if Im just pulling some congos/tablas/occasionally live drums.

 

For me, having 2-3 differing creationists (not the christian kind, the musical kind!) doing whatever they do, or less, creates a lovely live interface.

 

 

 

 

Nevyn Nowhere

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On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

--Mark wrote:
"have to have a bass player.. infact it was just me, the drummer and the singer, she also fired off
samples. small band... big noise!!!"

Yeah, it's cool that you said this, Mark.  Lately I"ve been fascinated by the concept of a band with
only a drummer and a guitarist (with augmenting effects).

I'd never really listened to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs (mostly because their singer puts me off a little bit)
but  a friend of mine who is enamored with noise and distortion guitar (and who I really respect a lot
as a musician)  hipped me to the fact that this guitarist is really cool and innovative:  and that's his
approach.   I also found out that he is using a lot of live looping to clone himself in live shows
(to pull off parts that are obviously overdubbed on their records).

I picked up a CD and an EP of their's and have really enjoyed what he's doing with one guitar.

Also,  my multi-instrumentalist friend, John Connell (who plays everything from traditional Persian
Ney and Daf to synthesizer to Black Metal guitar and who was one of the really cool newbies at the
festival this year)  said a really cool thing that I never thought about.

He said that most of the ethnic world uses this paradigm:   One string instrumentalist and one
drummer.

There is an amazing amount of freedom when there is only one guitarist and one drummer
and there is also a primalness that is very cool and deep potentially.

I really love that thought...................I'm just being the equivalent of a Tuareg playing
guimbry and an accompanying Bendir , when I play electric guitar and drums (thanks to looping)

What other single guitar/drum groups are out there, per chance?

PS  by the way,   I changed the name of this thread, purposefully for future researchers in our
archives.   I think it's better to have more things to search in the search archives (but I also
am mildly afraid that I'll upset the person who started the original thread when I do this)