Re: physical modeling ,setup time and the future

[Jeff Duke <jmar@bellsouth.net>]

Resistance is Futile,
I have enjoyed your music for awhile,possibly,being a *southern* Looper 
you guys
might( I wish and we have a great sound system)want to come to Atlanta in 
the
spring
for a show and southern bar-bq.No money in it but ....
Jeff Duke
TecBabLabs
http://members.tripod.com/~dukesr/index.html
future perfect wrote:

> >
> >Not only that, but bringing the technique into the "masses" and
> >beyond guitarists will help.  Though most of us are guitarists, I
> >find some guitarists are the most uptight about checking out things
> >beyond three octave Yngwie arpeggios (or whatever the new gymnastic
> >flavor is).   When my band plays live, the other musicians are 
>interested
> >in how the sounds are created and how we arrange our tunes, but most
> >"rock and roll" guitar types think it's a crutch.  They listen with 
>their
> >eyes and not their ears.
>
> This I believe is true, I played around town long before I got my looping
> rig, so people who I know can tell I can really play, even though now 
>that I
> tend to loop a lot, it doesnt LOOK like Im doing all that much. Hell, Ive
> gotten sneers when guitarists look at my half filled 6 space rack and the
> Strat with a synth pickup. Oh well. And for some reason I always feel the
> need to explain the technology sometime in the set. I try to explain that
> nothing is prerecorded at home, that it is composed live, etc.
> Here in Florida, there is a bevy of sequenced 'Brown Eyed Girl' musicians
> playing around ( "Hey, anyone here from out of town??")..so i explain 
>what I
> am doing, without using tems like 'looping' and 'sequencing' and 'midi' 
>(a
> difficult task, indeed!). I don't usually play where there is an audience
> full of musicians (although I did a solo looping demo at the Florida 
>Guitar
> Show last week, very cool..)..most audiences ARE the 'masses'. They will 
>be
> 'assimilated'. :)
> Dave Eichenberger
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