Re: Turn All That S**t Off

["Roger Morrison" <ghiw@hotmail.com>]

At home (never on stage), I have played a drum pad controller (not a 
DrumKat, but something similar, I can't think of what it was right now) 
with 
my feet while playing guitar and singing. With some practice it might have 
worked, but as a one-off jam it was more amusing than listenable.  As a 
looper one can switch back and forth between the instruments and not have 
to 
play them all at once, though (Rush, anyone?), and even switch between 
loops, so maybe the answer is more looping devices :)

Roger Morrison


>From: "matt davignon" <mattdavignon@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Turn All That S**t Off
>Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 13:38:37 -0800
>
>At least some drum machines (maybe all?) let you program the phrases/loops
>in real time. You just set up a click track (you can turn the click level 
>to
>0 on mine), and build your rhythms from scratch. If you have to use a drum
>machine in a solo performance, that seems like it would be the way to make
>it the most interesting. Unless it's a rock song. I saw a musician named
>Quintron who had triggers for electric snare and bass drums under his feet
>while playing an organ. That worked really well, although it seemed to 
>lend
>itself to simple rhythms. (Certainly not a complaint.)
>
>Personally, I learned to take out all elements of my live show that I 
>can't
>make up on the spot. I've seen enough live shows with the musician(s)
>playing over a CD of pre-recorded music or a drum machine program that I
>made a personal vow never to put people through that myself. Most 
>musicians
>who I've seen play pre-recorded music at their shows seem to think that if
>the pre-recorded music parts are really dynamic and interesting, it will
>take away the turn-off of having pre-recorded music on stage. It doesn't. 
>In
>fact, it often makes it worse, since the musician winds up generating 
>only 
>a
>tiny fraction of the music live.
>
>I know I'm stepping on a lot of toes here. I'm not saying this to attack
>anybody, it's more in the direction of trying to be constructive 
>discussion.
>A lot of audience members will be too polite to tell you this, so hear I 
>am
>giving an audience member's perspective.
>
>Matt
>
>>From: "Gary Lehmann" <relayonemanband@cts.com>
>
>>
>>Upon further reflection the phrase was "good honest drum machine".
>>I sort of agree with Bill Fox in principle, but I always wind up 
>>cluttering
>>my performances with some sort of Sonic Helper--otherwise I'd be playing
>>acoustic guitar and harmonica (not such a bad deal).
>>"All we need is drummer, for people who only need a beat."
>>Maybe sample the beat live, using Max/Rick's method of "playing" the drum
>>machine?
>>Gary
>>
>
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