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RE: gratuitous nostalgia was: re: Looping in prehistory
Title: Re: gratuitous nostalgia was: re: Looping in prehistory
I was
at that show too Dude!!! with Alex Acuna on drums, and Manalo Badrena (?) on
percussion, and I can't argue with your documentation (though I'd love to
hear it), though I saw him/Them at San Jose Perfoming Arts Center as well,
perhaps the following tour, I had a much better seat, he had a blue face
MXR rack delay, and I remember distinctly ,badadabompbomp badadabompbomp
badadabompbomp badadabompbomp ,beap diddle deedee dee debomp beap diddle deedee dee dee OK? so
please don't fog my fuzzy memory, OK?
:-)
Bill- wasnt it
180bpm budda budda bambitty bam bam-di dit dit bomp be bomp boop bomp de
bomp-er sompin?
i saw the immortal JACO w/ WeatherReport @ Winterland here
in the city in 1978 and i made a live tape of it which i'm listening to right
now-sounds great!(gotta figure out how to get this to digital
someday)
anyway the bass solo is approx 10min.w/ tributes to JIMI
andSomewhere o t r, and some Charlie Parker-But NO Looping-so i guess he got
that MXR the next year in time for Joni and forever
more...
s
on 12/20/05 8:48 PM, William Walker at
billwalker@baymoon.com wrote:
If I remember
correctly, Jaco's solo loop piece I saw went something like
this:
badadabompbomp badadabompbomp badadabompbomp badadabompbomp
to which he added:
beap diddle deedee dee debomp
e
beap
diddle deedee dee dee
After that I'm not so sure Ha Ha! but I
do remember the finale of him leaping from the top of his Acoustic amp on to
his oscillating bass ,yanking the plug from it , and sending it shooting
across the stage. I'm still not quite sure if that was intentional or not!
LOL
Bill
-----Original Message-----
From: daniel
stevenson [mailto:stillllscary@yahoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday,
December 20, 2005 7:52 PM
To:
Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
Subject: Re: gratuitous
nostalgia was: re: Looping in prehistory
could that be the
green mxr delay pedal?
i spent a whole two weeks pay from the gameroom
to get the green pedal & a ev micro synthesizer pedal...cool stuff for
the early 80's
very versitile as a noise maker,sweeps of 100 percent
regenerations into sirens and windy soundscapes.
it quit working for
some reason,but so did i so...go figure
had a power cord like a
refridgerator
i loved that green delay
dl4 has the same feel,some
day nostalgic...
i like this off topic
crap,
drop
d "boo"psycic
"loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com>
wrote:
from Jaco's biography:
"As Jaco described the effect,
"I've got an MXR Digital
Delay, which I put through one
amp"
Doh!!!!!! I had remembered it, innacurately as an ADA
when, of course, it
was an MXR delay.
I always have a problem
remembering the names of those early digital delays
(MXR, Delta
Labs, ADA, Korg, etc.)
They were all out of my price range and were
state of the art in their day
(and thus, fairly
pricey by a
beginning musicians' standards).
I can see that unit clearly
though. with it's big blue
faceplate...............I think he was
still using Acoustic amps, wasn't
he?
Someone posted a long
time ago that they saw me using that MXR rack mount
unit in Union
Grove music about that time
using it's piddly but exciting short loop
time with a microphone. I was
really into the music of the
Ituri
Pygmies who used yodelling techniques and a cool technique
where you sing a
note into a shor! t piece of
closed off bamboo
(or you can use a small old fashioned ink bottle, as well)
and sing
a falsetto note
in between blowing on the bottles.
With that
MXR unit (which I went into the store and 'demoed' every day for a
week or so until I wore out my
welcome with the owner) I could
make a loop and keep adding onto it,
simulating a whole small tribe
of Pygmies.
Wow, was that exciting..............and so outrageously
out of my budget to
buy.
****************************
This
thread is really kicking off of my memory of those very exciting days
(punk, new wave, electronic music, et. al.)
in the first couple
of years of the 1980's. At one point there were 45 all
original new
wave bands playing in Santa Cruz
in a half a dozen small venues that
featured all original music five to
seven days a week.
I also
remember using an Effectron 1024 (a massive 1.024 seconds of sampling
time) made by Delta Labs at the
o! ld Art Centre theatre in Santa
Cruz.
I made a vocal loop with it and then increased the speed so
much that it
was like a percussion loop,
completely
unintelligible for it's speed.......................and
used it as the basis
for an improvisation with Tao
Electrical,
the group I had with Not Michael (Michael Haumesser) and
Jim Rutledge that
was a side project for our more
popular new
wave band at the time, Tao Chemical.
At the end of the piece I
slowed the Effectron speed down until right at the
last second
(literally) you could understand
that the loop said, "It doesn't mean
a fucking thing," and then turned it
off, ending the
piece.
LOL, that sentence came from an anecdote I heard about
where Baba Ram Dass
had climbed high into the Himalya to find
a
reclusive spiritual master who lived in a cave up on the mountain. When
he got to the top of this arduous climb he asked the
hermit,
"What's the meaning of life" , to! which the hermit replied, "It
doesn't mean a fucking thing".
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