Re: A Loopy Bedtime Story

["David Potter" <papadave55@hotmail.com>]

I'm afraid you have G.A.S. John.  (gear aquisition syndrom)  We have a 12 
step program for those unfortunate souls that can't stop buying gear.  
When 
you are ready to surrender you can always counts on us being 
here...here..here...here........>>>>>>>>>>>>.........Om and Loop on


>From: John Tidwell <wedgehed@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: Loopers Delight <Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Subject: A Loopy Bedtime Story
>Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 00:46:36 -0700 (PDT)
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>I paid a long overdue visit to an old friend of mine
>last week. He's the guy who gave me my first guitar
>lessons some 25 years ago when I was a roadie in his
>band. I've been trying for the last two years to
>describe looping to him via telephone.
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>I take along my Line6 DL4 & give a quick & dirty
>demo. He's suitably impressed & sez he might get one.
>Then I start looking at some of the effects stuff he
>has on hand. I find a Digitech Whammy-Wah that he
>uses "sometimes" & a Digitech RDS 900 that he found
>cheap but never uses. "It's got chorus, flange, & a
>little bit of delay", he sez.
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>I had never played with one of these RDS thingys
>before, but I do pay attention when you folks go off
>on all things loopy! I ran the RDS into the Whammy-
>Wah & then commenced to playing strings, pushing
>buttons, turning knobs, & putting the pedal to the
>metal. My friend sits there for a solid hour as I
>spin out bird noises, synth pads, clouds of frogs,
>and at one point, a particularly evil duet with
>Charles Manson. When I was done, my friend nodded his
>head & gave his valediction. "Just leave everything
>hooked up the way it is", he sez.
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>Do we have a convert? Only time will tell.
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>All I know is that I've added a Digitech RDS-xxx
>to my already large list of things I want. The list
>gets bigger, but my budget does not. :(
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