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Problem is that I was using looping and an ebow before I'd ever heard of fripp. I remember listening to "no Pussyfooting" and being astonished by how similar to my music it was. Frankly I was pretty gutted. You have to be true to your inner muse though so I won't change for the sake of it. I'm digging my shoeless heels in.. G > Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2010 10:31:03 -0700 > Subject: Re: Walker brothers Elegies > From: mattdavignon@gmail.com > To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com > > Ha! I thought I was the only one who felt that way about ebows. > > Not that easy things are necessarily bad, but when looping on an ebow, > it's hard to not sound like a certain very famous guitarist. For me as > an audience member, I feel like I'm missing out on the chance to hear > of the performer as an individual, rather than the performer as an > admirer of Robert Fripp. > > -- > Matt Davignon > mattdavignon@gmail.com > www.ribosomemusic.com > Rigs! www.youtube.com/user/ribosomematt > > William Walker <billwalker@baymoon.com> was all: > > Thanks Gareth, > > you joke about ebow's brought to mind something about Kim that some but not > > all list dwellers might know about. I remember having a conversation with > > him about 6 years ago at one of Rick's Y2K events. We were talking and he > > said how much he hated Ebows. He felt they were the ambient musicians crutch > > and had been used to death, were a cheap method to create drones and > > sustain, and enough with this shoe gazer stuff anyway. At first i was a bit > > taken aback because frankly, I was one of those guys he was talking about > > :-) But then I realized , hey he's right!!! So at that event, knowing he > > was in the audience I dedicated a piece to him, I think I called it the Kim > > Flint tribute Ebow Solo or something, and then I'd drone for about 5 seconds > > and then stopped and thank the audience. But actually I took his critique to > > heart and I rarely ever use my E-bow anymore. I still dig it, but i've > > found other ways to create drones that don't require it. > > Thanks Kim for the influence > > Bill > > > Get a new e-mail account with Hotmail - Free. Sign-up now. |