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> 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