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--- Andre LaFosse <altruist@earthlink.net> wrote: > I'm simply interested in knowing what it is about a > particular work that someone feels is noteworthy or > important to them - i.e., why is it "essential?" Absolutely; it's that sort of explanation that makes us want to check the music out, not a list of names. I don't want to start another 'dictionary' thread, but it seems like some of us are reading 'essential' as 'definitive/archetypal', while others are seeing it more in the sense of 'influential/formative'. They can be very different things. > It's nothing personal to Terry or anyone else - it's > how we learn, right? Sure. And you did compliment him a couple of times as well. :-) > So is his 1985 album "Entering The Silence" an > Essential Loop Recording? I dunno. And it wasn't 'from the 90's' either. Re-reading his original post I certainly understand (and agree with) your questioning of the claims he makes, and nobody's disagreeing with the examples you gave of looping pioneers who'd been there already. But to defend what I said, I do feel that if, as Terry claims, he was completely unaware of anyone else using the techniques he was using in '85, then the process of working these things out for himself and recording an album featuring those techniques WAS certainly influential to his development as a looper. I don't necessarily agree with him that he was among the first to do them, or as alone in the field as he claims (heck, I myself was looping before 1985), but by the criteria of the last part of Kim's question, Terry's album does warrant mention, even if it's for reasons personal to him. I'm just pointing out that Kim is asking two questions that, while they have a certain overlap, really deal with different things. And like I said, those two things (definitive/archetypal vs. personally influential) are BOTH worthy of discussion, although the two lists of albums characterizing them would probably not be all that similar. -t- __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? SBC Yahoo! DSL - Now only $29.95 per month! http://sbc.yahoo.com