RE: 50th anniversary of realtime looping?

["Michael Peters" <mp@mpeters.de>]

Mati wrote,

> certainly they glued tape to loops in the 50ies, so studio looping is 
> older as far as I understood, Les Paul brought ready tapes to stage and 
> lovelooping started with the two tape machine idea 


"lovelooping" yes :)  it started with the two tape machines in 1963.  And 
yes, as I wrote in that essay, of course loops (static) are much older but 
they are something completely different - more like a pre-digital way to 
sample. Les Paul was probably faking his "live" multitracking, there was a 
discussion about this on LD:

http://www.loopers-delight.com/LDarchive/200211/msg00922.html

-Michael