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Re: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's



SUBMITTED: Roger Miller "Elemental Guitar" (SST)

~Tim


-----Original Message-----
>From: Stephen Goodman <spgoodman@earthlight.net>
>Sent: Feb 13, 2006 8:22 AM
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's
>
>
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
>To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
>Sent: Monday, 13 February, 2006 08:16 AM
>Subject: Looper's Essential Listening revisited: the 1980's
>
>
>> Hi Loopers,
>>
>> Every now and then we discuss ideas for the Looper's Delight Essential 
>> Listening section. It's that time again!
>>
>> The last time we discussed this was in 2003, and a lot of great 
>> recommendations came out of that discussion. At that time we tried to 
>> focus on the 1990's. I've finally incorporated those listening 
>> recommendations into the latest incarnation of the Essential Listening 
>> Loopography:
>>
>> http://www.loopers-delight.com/loopography/Records.html
>>
>> If you haven't been there recently, check it out. I've added a bunch of 
>> new entries based on submissions from many of you.
>>
>> This time around, I'd like to focus on the 1980's. What were the 
>essential 
>> recordings from the 1980's that every looper ought to listen to? Please 
>> propose your ideas and let's discuss it! Please include a paragraph or 
>two 
>> about why you think that recording is essential for looping.
>>
>> So, what makes something an essential recording for looping? There are 
>no 
>> hard and fast guidelines.
>>
>> They might be recordings where new ideas or techniques in looping were 
>> first introduced, or where looping was first heard in a type of music 
>> where it hadn't been used before, or with an instrument where it hadn't 
>> been used before, or recordings/artists that influenced a lot of people 
>to 
>> become interested in looping or expand their abilities as loopers, or 
>> simply a perfect example of looping from a legendary looping artist.
>>
>> Another thing we learned in 2003 is that proposing yourself as 
>essential 
>> probably won't go over very well. :-)
>>
>> Also, there were several good recommendations made last time where 
>nobody 
>> supplied a good review paragraph to go with it. I still need somebody 
>to 
>> write a good review about why these albums are essential for looping:
>> Robert Fripp - Let the Power Fall (1981)
>
>I'll do my best!  Didn't anyone submit "Under Heavy Manners/God Save the 
>King/Queen"?
>
>> Please help me out with that if you are familiar with these albums!
>>
>> You may be interested in reading some of the 2003 discussion on this if 
>> you weren't around for it, it is quite amusing:
>> 
>http://www.loopers-delight.com/cgi-bin/wilma_glimpse/LDarchive?query=essential&Search=Search&restricttofiles=on&filelist=200307&filelist=200306&errors=0&maxfiles=1000&maxlines=10&.cgifields=lineonly&.cgifields=restricttofiles&.cgifields=filelist&.cgifields=partial&.cgifields=case
>>
>> Ok, discuss!
>>
>> kim
>>
>>
>> ______________________________________________________________________
>> Kim Flint                     | Looper's Delight
>> kflint@loopers-delight.com    | http://www.loopers-delight.com
>>
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>> 
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