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Re: average age of the looping community



I will turned 50 next september,Fabio
Haribol!
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Marted́, 11 Feb 2003, alle 08:17 Europe/Rome, David Swain ha scritto:

> 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
>>>
>>>
>>
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