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> Yeah - Jim's looping segues between songs are pretty cool. > > I think that Rick Walker made a cameo performance with them at the Santa > Cruz Digital Arts Festival earlier this year (missed it myself). Rick > never mentioned it here though... - maybe it wasn't him, just some other > found-sound looping percussionist from Santa Cruz. > > > At 01:52 AM 03/06/28, jimfowler wrote: >> saw the mermen last night (holy jeebus!) and what do i spy in jim >thomas' >> rack but an obie edp. it wasn't used extensively, but i was keeping an >eye >> on the gear and he was pulling off some very smooth live looping. >> >> the mermen rule. > wow-<mermen> spiel and i dint even startitup... yeah *the* rick walker joined the mermen on 4/12 for that digital arts festival they had in santacruz-unfortunately he was poorly mic'ed and nowhere in the mix. so the tapes of the show contain little of the florescent one, unfortunatelee... as previouslee mentioned: the mermen rule goinloopee stans (also-jimthomas looped w/ edps originally when they first came out(the <mermen> ep-"songs of the cows" contain copious loopings very well imbedded in the tunes) then he became enamored w/ repeater-but it did him bad on occasion...so its back to edp for his very creative,imaginative loops he does during their epic,longass shows...