Re: Andre comes back to the old question... and goes away from the old list

["David Kirkdorffer" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

Andre - maybe the answer is simple: maybe we're weird. :-)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Andre LaFosse" <altruist@earthlink.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 04, 2004 11:16 PM
Subject: Re: Andre comes back to the old question... and goes away from the
old list


> No Matthias, it's not about trying to create conflict, or trying to
> stifle answers.
>
> It actually has something to do with a quote which I learned from Rick
> Walker, ironically enough:
>
> "There is no us and them; there is only us."
>
> So when I hear about - for instance - somebody using a DL4 to loop under
> a solo, who is "not a looper per se," it raises questions for me.  It
> makes me wonder where the distinction between the "them" of this
> DL4-touting singer-songwriter is made, to differentiate him from "us."
> It makes me wonder what the common defining traits are of the 500-odd
> people who are on this list, reading this thread right now, that would
> imbue them with a "true looper" designation, that's missing from our
> Line 6-soloing emmisary of the "them" delegation.
>
> It makes me wonder a lot of things - like why serious, intelligent,
> critical discussion, which can take into account the 40 or 50 years of
> historical precedent for the subject of the discussion list, always
> seems to make a bunch of everyone's collective undergarments in a forum
> made up principally of adult, middle-aged men.
>
> I'm sorry to hear that I was apparently responsible for your losing
> three months, Matthias.  Maybe it would be easier if everyone thought
> the same things, felt the same feelings, and understood the same
> unspoken beliefs.  Unfortunately, I'm a pretty dumb person, so sometimes
> I need things explained to me, and sometimes it takes an explanation
> that goes into more depth and detail than "It is this way because this
> is the way we say that it is."
>
> For the time being, I don't want to be a negative vibe merchant -
> especially to the people whose work and music I've spent innumerable
> hours trying to be supportive and enlightening about over the course of
> eight and a half years.
>
> So as wise man once said, "My work here is done.  Now, I must go."
>
> Perhaps I'll poke my head back in at some point.  In the meantime, those
> who want to know how to track me down.
>
> Good luck to y'all.
>
> --Andre LaFosse
>
>
> Matthias Grob wrote:
> > I put a lot of energy into creating a mutual support organization to
> > inform the world about looping music and make looping musicians life
> > easier.
> > The ones that did not like the idea (mainly for the lack of a hard
> > definition) won. Also because Kevin left Gibson. I lost 3 months.
> > But what did you win, really?
> > Well, I have more things to do, maybe things I can do better... :-)
> >
> > --
> >
> >           ---> http://Matthias.Grob.org
>