Re: 3 million hits with livelooping

[mark francombe <mark@markfrancombe.com>]

Well Ricky, I reacted to the fact that Torben just hit reply on my post, copied the whole thread under his mail and said folks were trolling.. twas mine that show up first.. so, maybe he wasnt pointing at me..

But Yes Ricky, the interesting thing about this thread is that looping is pretty passé now.. anyone can do it (hooray) and we prob need to stop just posting EVERYTHING just cos its looping... There is a guy here in Norway who has become a HUGE hit of the song form looping.. all my friends are saying.. its so cool how he loops himself... I sigh and point out that theyve been coming to my gigs for 12 years.. and they look at me.. pause.. blink a few time... then go back to saying how cool this guy is...

I feel that solo pub singers have gotten the biggest change in their lives from Looping...

BUt as a film-maker I have simerlar issues at work, the extremely high level of proffesionality an amateur can achive with a home PC and lots of time,  is so astounding its hard for ME to to continue to charge 1025 kroners an hour for my films... Its getting tougher and tougher...
Damn computers... before it was all a mystery we hid from the un-washed masses... Grrr...

On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 11:55 AM, Ricky Graham <rickygrahammusic@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Mark,

> In what possible way could you say my post was trolling?

I don't think anyone is suggesting you are "trolling." You make some
good observations in your post.

> Is'nt it interesting, that live looping has become so cool, that this
> guy writes a song that EMULATES live looping but isn't???

This is exactly what I am getting at. Look beyond what you deem to be
worthy of your praise for its musical caliber for a moment and see
that it clearly conveys the concept of looping audio. It could prove
to be a useful platform.

Ricky

> On 27 Apr 2012, at 03:08, Torben Scharling <torbenscharling@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Wow, some of you guys are scarily brutal in your response to that video. Interesting to see what kind of thoughts goes through other musicians/loop artists/trolls minds though.
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