Re: Jimi and Looping

[Trey Donovan <treydonovan@powerhat.com>]

> > So far as I can tell, Hendrix didn't have much (or any) influence on 
>loop
> > based music. 
> 
> What about Can?  Or the Fripp/Eno collaborations?  Or (don't kill me,
> Kim!) Frippertronics?  

I realize that this thread is getting well beaten, but I just caught up on
my LD mail, and noticed that it's the longest running thread in my inbox
so far.  Sorry if it's nauseating anyone.

I heard Robert Fripp say in person and several times in interviews what a
tremendous influence Jimi Hendrix was on his music, which most of us know
is fairly loopy.
Here's a realaudio version of one of his Hendrix stories:
http://www.fripp.com/robertfrippclips/jimi.ram
(By the way it's sort of about how looped music may have influenced
Hendrix)

So my question as regards nostalgic admiration of guitar gods, or more
pointedly giant famous musicians who influenced all sorts of rip-offs,
spin-offs, trends in technology, and homages ad nauseum, is this:

What music is happening right now, this moment in our musical universe
that has the power to influence us so profoundly that it changes our music
permanently, gives us ideas and inspiration, and pushes the envelope of
our creative abilities?  I don't necessarily music that's produced for
mass consumption, or recorded media, but real, living, breathing,
devastating musical art.

-trey

PS Why shoudn't Kim kill Andre?