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This whole subject of age has awakened my curiosity! the arts being often a comodity for many people How many of you are lucky enough to live strictly from looping, art or music? L.a > > > > Well, > > > > I'm a 49 year old father of 3 and husband of one > woman > > for 24 years so I guess that means I'm a > guilty-as-charged, > > working class "family guy" in most respects. But I > began > > looping a rather long time ago -- long before kids > anyway > > (my oldest is 17). And, my imagination had been > captured > > by the possibilities of the old tape "echoplex" > and loops > > made on "altered" reel tape decks long before I'd > even > > met my wife in 1976. > > > > I'd say that us older musicians with a steady jobs > and stable > > situations are more able to procure, learn and > hang on to > > some of this expensive, complicated gear -- and > develop > > a pretty good vision of what we wanna do with it. > We may > > not be as free to tour or take gigs (the down side > of the > > "ties that bind") but we're no less passionate or > creative > > about our activities -- IMHO. > > > > But, this is a pretty diverse list. No "ageism" is > really possible. > > Andre LaFosse is a youngish (and, as far as I > know) single guy > > who's utter mastery of the EDP knocks my socks off > every > > time I hear him. There are awesome women loopers > of all ages. > > And, although there seems to be a preponderance of > guitar > > slingers here there are drummers, DJs, wind, key > and kitchen > > utensil players too -- plus a handful that simply > play the processing > > sans instrument (or processing as an instrument in > itself). > > > > There are goddesses, doctors, teachers, students, > artists, > > writers, waiters, democrats, republicans, > anarchists, religionists, > > atheists, agnostics, whatever . . . folk of every > walk and stripe > > of life here. And, I suspect, a pretty wide spread > of ages too. > > Folks with dark hair, grey hair, purple hair or no > hair abound. > > This is a pretty complicated and colorful > community. > > > > tEd ® kiLLiAn > > > > ArsOcarina@aol.com > > http://www.mp3s.com/tedkillian > > http://www.pfmentum.com/flux.html > > http://www.mp3.com/Ophelia_Pancake > > > > when i see your mail adress, i've one question: do > you play ocarina (i do!)? > andi paulo > ______________________________________________________________________________ > Jetzt 52 verschiedene Briefpapiere fur Ihre E-Mails > bei > WEB.DE FreeMail - > http://freemail.web.de/features/?mc=021140 > ===== www.labalou.com __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com