Re: [looper's] RE: First Excursions into Frippertronics

[David Beardsley <db@biink.com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Zvonar" <zvonar@zvonar.com>

> From: "Mark Hamburg" <mark_hamburg@baymoon.com>
> >But can you give anyone other than Fripp credit for really pushing
> >it in an essentially commercial, touring form?
> 
> At 7:42 AM -0500 11/23/02, David Beardsley wrote:
> >Terry Riley.
> 
> Terry was certainly touring with his delay system a decade before 
> Fripp, but I'd hesitate to call it "commercial."

He had a few records out on major labels, specifically in
1969 - A Rinbow in Curved Air (CBS Masterworks).
I was only 9 then, but I know classical labels were trying
to get crossover hits even in those days. Switched On Bach
for example.


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