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It could very well be a perfectly valid and subjective perspective. If so, why would we want to censor the viewpoint? Unless we are insincere and not confident in the integrity of our own approach to making music... I am not siding with the original comment, which I think is a generalization, and because I think this is entirely situational and context drive, but I have seen many one-man-band looping acts where I totally agree with the comment below. What changes my viewpoint is when the musician is very well accomplished or he/she is truly creative. But when I see a one-man looper construct a piece of music that I can't really differentiate between a mediocre band, then it doesn't do anything for me. It is very much like watching an amateur musician lay down tracks in his home studio. If the looper is a virtuoso or creating tracks that are really new and out there, then it turns me on. Again, it's all context driven for me, vs. there being a hard and fast rule. I don't know if the author of the original comment was making a hard and fast rule. There isn't enough info. But back to my point, what we should absolutely and categorically not honor is censorship. A healthy community receives criticism with open arms and defends itself professionally and with tact. I'm not saying that you didn't do this, tilmann (I am sure you mean well), but more predicting what this thread could potentially become if we let it. I think we should get the guy to elaborate on his comment and see whether he really is just expressing his own personal feelings, or if he beliefs he is making an objective statement...if the latter, then we refute and falsify his ass to oblivion! :) K- > why would you have to "honour" this prespective? > i'd rather go for "happily ignore". > seems to be a loud man with a short attention span. > > tilmann > > > Michael Peters schrieb: >> also an interesting perspective that has to be honoured ... >> /Nothing - NOTHING - is more boring and ego-fed than live looping, >> especially when you have a full band on the stage. If I want to see >> someone "creating tracks", I'll go to a recording studio. In concert, I >> want to see and hear a band working together making music, not some >nerd >> with toys making tracks./ by billthemailman January 30, 2:39 PM >> http://www.boston.com/ae/music/articles/2009/01/30/in_the_loop/?page=2 >> > >