Looper's Delight Archive Top (Search)
Date Index
Thread Index
Author Index
Looper's Delight Home
Mailing List Info

[Date Prev][Date Next]   [Thread Prev][Thread Next]   [Date Index][Thread Index][Author Index]

Re: New looping pedal--Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler.



and it came to pass that God spoke and the GR 300 appeared.


>From: Andreas Willers <AWillers@compuserve.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>To: "INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com" 
><Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com>
>Subject: Re: New looping pedal--Line 6 DL-4 Delay Modeler.
>Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 17:28:43 -0400
>
>
>
>-------------------- Begin Original Message --------------------
>
>Message text written by INTERNET:Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
>
>"I sit in front of the piano, Bach sits in front of
>the piano.  We both play.  Who's to blame for the results?  Not the poor
>piano.
>"
>
>
>-------------------- End Original Message --------------------
>
>Bach bloody INVENTED the piano while everybody around him thought you'd
>never be able to improve such a perfect instrument like the harpsichord.
>Probably pianos sounded horrible in the first 150 years or so. Electric
>guitar is still just hardly a grown up instrument and I am happy that I 
>can
>decide easily by myself what pickups to stick into it.
>
>Thank God a lot of people are tinkering on improvements all the time, 
>which
>does not mean that progress is a value or an end in itself. And I
>especially hate when some industry guy decides for me what can and what
>can't be done with, say a 1500 $ piece of equipment which should clearly
>pass the line between a nice little toy and a processor/musical 
>instrument.
>
>Besides that I try to make a concious effort only to bring equipment to a
>gig that I really need that night and train my ability to perform on 
>rented
>equipment etc.
>
>Andreas
>Andreas
>


______________________________________________________
Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com