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At 02:38 PM 6/26/2003, Steve Lawson wrote: >Phil Keaggy (Acoustic Sketches is fantastic - how does he get so much out >of >an unmodded JamMan????) One of the most common names I hear in relation to looping and influence is Phil Keaggy. I get mails all the time from Phil Keaggy fans asking me why he isn't mentioned somewhere on the Looper's Delight site, or what gear he uses, or how he uses loops or whatever. A lot of them are just blown away by the things he pulls off live with his JamMan. Interestingly, his name hardly ever comes up on this list. I can only assume that people into Phil Keaggy have to spend a lot more time practicing and don't have time to hang out on a mailing list with all the people using looping to cover their lack of skill on their instrument. Or maybe Keaggy fans are on the list but they've developed carpal tunnel and are unable to type a post. Whatever it is, he's actually a much bigger part of the looping world than you would gather from this list. Anyway, it is very clear to me that Keaggy has been hugely influential in getting a lot of acoustic guitar fingerpicking types interested in looping. Quite a few Echoplex users I've met are coming from that direction, although Keaggy actually uses a JamMan. (I think he got an echoplex at some point but went back to the jamman since that's what he was used to using.) As I understand, he actually got into looping because of Chet Atkins, who was a JamMan user and told Keaggy to try it. Keaggy is a great example of looping being used in a very different context from what a lot of people expect. For that reason, and since his music is quite good and he does the looping thing quite well, I think he would be a good choice for the essential listening section. Unfortunately he's another case for me of somebody well outside my normal listening, so I'm not sure which cd's represent a good use of his looping. I did a google search and came up with some interviews where he talks about using the jamman a lot on "Acoustic Sketches" from 1998, and since that seems to be a highly regarded album it may be a great choice. Any Phil Keaggy fans out there who can chime in? kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com