Re: R: livelooping articles for a guitar magazine

[andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk>]

..and Riley's was a live performance technique.

The Brian May "two guitars" tape delay effect is on one of 
Queen's early albums, it's just a single repeat iirc.

I've also heard that Gary Moore used some kind of long tape
delay, disabling the erase head on (I'm guessing) a Roland
Space Echo.

..the other proto looper would have to be John Martyn,
keeping chords and rhythm going by playing into a one
bar delay. (first track of "Live at Leeds" album)

Stockhausen certainly had a modified tape deck that
would allow a live tape loop performance (different to Riley's),
..but whether he ever let a guitarist plug in....



andy



andy 

Rick Walker wrote:
> On 7/22/64 11:59 AM, Victor Eijkhout wrote:
>> On May 28, 2011, at 7:41 AM, ligeti@alice.it wrote:
>>
>>> You can found the dawn of loop's universe in the first works of Steve 
>>> Reich ("it's gonna rain"; "come out"...)
>> Use of tape loops is probably much older than that. Pierre Schaefer 
>> 1940s?
>>
>> But it's not live.
>>
>> Victor.
> It is my understanding that the first person, historically, to use tape 
> loops compositionally (and as the basis for the composition)
> was Terry Riley.   He gave specific tape looping concerts in the 60's 
> and was the original inspiration for people like Eno and Fripp.
> 
> rick walker
> 
>