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Back in High School..mid to late 70s...someone turned me onto the whole "tape loop" theory. Being curious, abstract, avant, and seeking out new sounds, other than the rock music most my peers were into, I "borrowed" my Dad's Reel to Reel 4 track (remember "quadraphonic sound" guys?) and found a second (only a two track) at a garage sale. I remmeber making my own "looping" setup, with the long tape loop running across my bedroom floor. Ha, Rick..I thought I was so clever, too! Some real sick and twisted sounds were made, by me, my trumpet, my rather hideous guitar playing, and my friend's micro-Moog. Ah, I remember it well. Wasn't too long later someone showed me an Echoplex. Got me thinkin'... Then I saw a Roland Space Echo...and HAD to have it! My Dad got his tape deck back, but he was rather annoyed at me. What had I done to the record heads? Then in 79 or 80 I saw Robert Fripp doing the Frippertronics thing at a festival in Annapolis, Md. I had been hip to Fripp and Eno (evening Star, No Pussyfooting etc...all staples of my record collection), but seeing and hearing it live (well..seeing is misleading...he was just a shadow on the stage, a sillouette of a man, his guitar and two Revoxes). Tho' I did not really understand all he was doing...it sounded incredible! And really changed my whole way of perceiving music, just as seeing Miles had a few years earlier. The Space Echo went to good use...lots of use, although I think only myself, my micro-moog toting friend, and a few warped co-horts really appreciated all the madness. The first "experimental" band I was in I played "Roland Space Echo"; just treating and looping sound. Spent some time away from it all whilst I learned to play bass...really play bass, but then got an Effectron and a some early Digitech digital delay which had an infinite repeat/hold function. This would be the mid-80s, and I was BassLooping! Of course doing such got me fired from many bands.... Much later, I met Mr. Loopool Walker, and his nefarious brother....they forced me to get a JamMan...and well, the rest is in the loop.... Max _________________________________________________________________ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.com