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Re: hope this isnt the official review



> i want the real scoop.......what happened?........who was the first to 
>put a lampshade on their head?.........:)...........give me the 
>gossip!................michael

Well... You asked Michael so here's the deal... 

A Santa Cruz looper jam / get together happened Sunday the 25th, 2pm - 
8pm...

Matt Davignon - Turntable, cassettes, 2 DOD DFX94's
Chris Cory - Sax and toy instruments, Line 6 DL4
Larry Peterson - Custom (Warr style) tap instrument, treated vox, synth? 
EDP?
Jonathan El-Bizri - Stick, SP808, JamMan, EDP?
Kamlapati Khalsa - Guitar, SP808, 2 EDP's
Dana Scruggs - Korg Triton keyboard
Laurie Hatch - Bass, percussion, vox, EDP
Scott Kungha Drengshen - 12 string bass, EDP?
Tim Sanz - Guitar, DL4
Miko Biffle - Guitar, EDP

I'm counting 10... I hope I'm not forgetting anyone here! There were a few 
no shows due to conflicting work schedules as well... There WERE 16 
confirmed players.

Anyway... as we all set up there was an additive sort of wall of sound 
being generated, some of which was taped. I was very leery of trying to 
loop with 10 people... so I prepared a simplified version of John Zorn's 
Cobra game piece, which we played a couple times. This helps move the 
music along in various sub-groups using a visually oriented cueing system. 
We all felt that for a first time, this was a big success, and are now 
babbling on about doing a second jam and using more detailed signalling 
methods.

As a group, we seemed very intent on PLAYING rather than socializing. It 
was a 6 hour duration and we used a solid 4 of it for playing. One hour 
for setup, loose jamming and one hour of break down. There was NO 
lampshade wearing unfortunately Michael... Oh yeah... This all happened at 
a rehearsal studio I rented for the event... we set up in the round and 
might have been able to fit more people... but it was packed. I'm thinking 
that we may rent a more "recital" oriented hall for the next one. (this 
space was a concrete, echoey, industrial building.)

We DID record... are getting ready to do some edits and mastering... and 
will at LEAST post this stuff to a web site. Hopefully there will be a cd 
of the highlights as well. Anyway... we all had a great time and now we 
have some faces to go along with the various names we constantly see on 
this great list! In many ways, I felt like I already knew everyone there 
to some degree... confirming my feelings of community and common purpose 
I've found here at Loopers Delight. 

Thanks Kim for this place to meet and build relationships here! I can 
pretty confidently say I would never have made these contacts and had this 
event without this list...

I'll post any contact info for this stuff as it develops...

Best to all,
-Miko