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I discovered looping while I was still in high school, so I don't have a lot to go before it. I started out as a bass player, in a couple garage bands. I really wanted to become a virtuosic bass player like Geddy Lee, Chris Squire or Les Claypool. I discovered avant-garde music through a class in high school about 20th century art and music. I put out a tape of experiments that same year, and it was awful. (Think: bass soloing over a cd of sound fx on shuffle play, or singing "monkily" through lots of echoes.) Then I saw a local band in which the cello player had a looper and it blew me away. I saved up for a few months at $4.50 an hour to get my first DOD DFX-94 pedal. A few months later, I got my first 4-track cassette recorder, which was just as important. By 1996 I had so much fun looping different things that I barely played bass at all anymore. In other news: there's been a great Trent Reznor parody going around the internet posted at: https://soundcloud.com/fredscott-1/this-is-a-trent-reznor-song (Spoiler: the chorus sounds exactly like the first song on the new album.) I wonder how many others recorded Nine Inch Nails parodies at some point. I know of a few. Here's one I recorded back in 1999. (I'll take it down in a few days, since it's a little silly.) "Angel Scabs": https://soundcloud.com/matt-davignon/the-electric-fiends-angel -- Matt Davignon mattdavignon@gmail.com New release "The 3am Music": http://mattdavignon.bandcamp.com Podcast! http://ribosomematt.podomatic.com On Tue, Feb 4, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > > I was perusing some older live videos that Daniel Thomas has posted of > past > bands > we've been in and suddenly thought: it might be a cool thread to have > people posting > the music they made BEFORE they began to loop. > > Where did we all come from to shape us into the musicians we are today? > I think a trip down memory lane would be fun. What do you all think? > > This is Worlds Collide performing a song we wrote called HAIDUK about the > Bulgarian > Freedom Fighters. This performance was two years before I formed THIRD > WAVE > with Gary Regina and Bill Walker, our first foray into live looping in > public in 1995. > > Check out Bill's incendiary guitar solo in this one. He just burns! > Also, > please note that > guitarist/multi-instrumentalist, Daniel Thomas was our headline artist at > this past years' > Y2K13 International Live Looping Festival. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nkree6nyJno > > Rick Walker >