Last Tibbets Commentary

[Todd Madson <crash@waste.org>]

Just to continue - I saw Tibbets sit in with a local group, Eight Head 
about a year and a half ago.

Marc Anderson actually played trap drums and percussion and the band
had local legend Dean Magraw on guitar and Jim Anton on bass respectively.

It was an amazing show, and I was actualy able to hear some of the tunes
from the Tibbets CDs in a live setting (this was at the Cedar Cultural
Center).

As far as loop content goes, Tibbets had his Lexicon there and was able
to do some of the eerie stuff he does on record live.  It was an 
education.

His guitar rig was basically either a black strat into a Matchless
Lighting practice amp into a Marshall half stack and a bunch of
pedals, a mixing board and the Lexicon (the large 2 or 3 space
delay).  

He also had a 12 string and a 6 string acoustic and how he looped
was that he would swell notes in with a volume pedal or play chords
fading them in and use the mixer to increase the amount of delay he
wanted to hear.

Oh.  It was LOUD.

Sadly, Eight Head is no more and it's unlikely Tibbets will be sitting in
with a non-existent band these days.

-t