Re: Howie Day

[Scott Hansen <scott-a-hansen@uiowa.edu>]

this mirrors my thoughts when i saw him on carson d. one of my
reactions was, "i wonder how many young musicians were watching this,
saw the wonderful loop things he was doing live, and it gets them
to thinking about how to use 'looping' for their own purposes in
the future." just curious to see the future folks like us who
say, "yea, yrs ago i saw howie day on carson daily, and it got me
going..."

...like when i first heard DT in the late 80's, couldn't
really process it, moved on w/ life... read about him again in 2000 
(as well as fripp) and it got me thinking......pursuing new avenues, 
etc....
s---


>  I saw that Carson Daly performance, and it was funny how my reaction 
>went
>from my usual cynical dismissal. " Oh no, Here's another pretty boy
>singer/songwriter with an expensive haircut singing an average song," to,"
>Hey cool, he's showing some Michael Hedges acoustic swerve", to, " Holy
>S**t he's looping his parts!",to  "Wow, he's looping his voice and using
>amazing ambience processing!" He won me over with his artful ingenuity.
>He's a little mainstream, for my personal taste, put I sure do appreciate
>his talent,  looping panache. For that alone, I'd like to catch him live.
>The bottom line for me these days other than taste is, is he gonna stand 
>up
>to clear channel, or is he a product of clear channel (LOL)
>Bill


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