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Wow my birthday is december 13th as well, i turned 29 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jimmy George Band" <jg@jimmygeorgeband.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:11 AM Subject: Re: average age of the looping community > is that in loop years rick??? > > i just turned 36 dec 13th > > life is good... > > http://www.jimmygeorgearts.com > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL <GLOBAL@cruzio.com> > To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> > Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:44 PM > Subject: average age of the looping community > > > > 49 = 7 X 7 for me > > > > did my first looping performance in 1980 with TAO ELECTRICAL > > which was a spinoff group of popular new wave band I was in, TAO CHEMICAL. > > Didn't do another one until the release of the lexicon JAMMAN (redubbed > the > > JAMPERSON > > for our politically correct and non-sexist People's Republic of Santa Cruz > > audiences.** > > > > At the end of our set at an electronic music concert (with Dr. Richard > > Zvonar and Bob Beede on the bill, by the way) each of the members of this > > trio (bass, guitar and drums = me) recorded a loop onto three original > tube > > echoplexes with erase disengaged (manually, i believe but I didn't > actually > > do that so I can't say for sure) and, one by one, > > we walked of into the audience and let the performance continue by itself. > > I thought we were doing something that had never been done before (because > I > > wasn't influenced by anyone to think up the idea) but have since, due >to > > that same > > academic genius, Dr. Zvonar come to find that it was all old hat by >that > > time. > > > > Noone in that audience had ever heard it (which is true of most of the > > audiences that I > > play for still, to this day.....LOL. > > > > A couple of years later, a guy just reminded me a couple of months ago, he > > saw me > > at the old UNION GROVE (pre-earthquake) playing one of the original > digital > > delays and I had it on an infinite repeat and was singing faux pygmy > > yodelling > > into it with a really primitive harmonizer. > > > > I had completely forgotten this as I was poor as a church mouse (living > off > > of > > really 'out of the box' music at the time) and couldn't possibly afford > the > > gear > > I was drooling over until this guy reminded me. > > > > He said, "You've been looping for 20 years, man". > > > > It startled me because the instant the Lexicon Jamman came out, I >bought > one > > and ended > > up playing them for 8 years (ultimately three of them synchronized with > > midi) until > > I purchased the DL-4. > > > > I did my recent live CD with two of those until I bought my Repeater >and > > added it to the > > madness. > > > > Then, just recently I got my first EDP with loop 4: whole new >ballgame > > again. > > > > I have the Repeater feeding the EDP (through AUX 1) and the EDP feeding > the > > Repeater > > (through AUX 2) and have retired my DL4s (that I love dearly) for > everything > > except > > my > > > > PORTABLE BUSKING LOOPING RIG which consists of a battery powered head set > > mic, battery powered mini amplifier, battery bowered DL4, battery powered > > Boss Intellishifter > > all feeding into a dweeby, little girls plastic portable CD amplifier made > > of, > > you guessed it, TRANSLUCENT DAYGLO LIME GREEN PLASTIC!!! > > > > This is all velcroed onto a high school marching drum apparatus made of > > aluminum. > > I think there are photos of me by Ted Killian on my website if my > > webmistress (wow, it gets me hot calling my wife that......LOL) has put > them > > up yet. > > > > LOOP ON! > > > > rick walker (aka.loop.pool) > > www.looppool.info > > > > > > *I still have the little graphics kit to change the front panel >graphics > of > > the JAMMAN > > to say JAMPERSON if anyone else thinks this is appropos, as I do. E-mail > me > > off list > > and I'll get one out to you if I can find it........lol > > > > >