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these are my best looping memories..........please forgive me for changing the thread name but I was thinking of newbies searching the archives and thought this title might be easier to search. > > 1) Does everyone remember their first time? -- looping that is? What's > > changed for you since then? I remember seeing Jaco Pastorius with Weather Report use a short digital delay loop of some harmonics that he had played and then soloed over it amazingly as the band left the stage. I remember thinking, 'Wow, the whole musical world is about to change'. It was several years later before I bought my first Lexicon JamPerson although I predated that with one performance with old tube tape echoplexes that all three of us used to create long unsynchonized loops back in 1982. > > 2) Do you have a special memory when everything seemed to click in a looping > > performance? Could you pinpoint what seemed to be going on at the >time? I remember playing at the 1st Big Sur Looping Festival under the amazing canopy of redwood trees at the Henry Miller Gallery in Big Sur. I had just purchased a strange and wonderful one string Vietnamese zither the day before called a BAU. I played this instrument with a slide and the instruments own whammy bar and then played an invented instrument I made called the Glass Ghatam and I remember looking up at the redwoods playing this strange, exotic and very, very simple looping music and thinking, "It's a good day to die.................I've done every wonderful thing I ever had hoped to do and now I'm doing things that I hadn't even dreamt of doing two days before". I felt really blessed that I had discovered the world of live looping. Another galvanizing moment was when I saw Andre LaFosse use an old Roland drum machine to retriggered his glitchy loops that he had quantize replaced on his EDP at the Y2K2 Live Looping Festival last summer....................... the piece started very jagged and abstract and intellectual and when suddenly all the little segments had been replaced there was an amazing and very strange funk groove that appeared magically. It took everything in my power not to leap on stage and start beatboxing wildly. Only my respect for Dre and the knowledge that it would probably have non-plussed him for me to do such a narcissistic thing kept me back but I remember, literally, having to sit on my hands to keep from jumping up. A truly amazing moment in my life............................then I knew I had to finally get an EDP!!!! LOL!!!! > > 3) What was the last bit of music you did that just made you giggle >with > > happiness that it had happened? I was at the end of this summer's European/Brit Isles looping tour playing with amazing group of talented and innovative Italian loopers from Firenze (Florence). It was in the middle of a beautiful ampitheatre outside a modern art museum in the suburbs of Florence (Prato) and the day had been incredibly hot. I decided to play my last piece on the melodica (which had become my favorite instrument of the tour). I was just really in the zone: and the most melancholy piece started coming out of me and I realized that I was finally writing/improvising the piece that I needed to write to honor my dear mothers' passing this summer. It made me giggle with happiness and almost break into tears............................all in the same song and I just knew that my Mom was really, really happy for me somewhere. It came out so wonderfully (the whole concert) that I"m thinking of possibly releasing a four to six song EP of my tour shows this coming fall. I just released a live CD this past year but the music I was playing was so different and my headspace was in such a different place. If I do release it, I'll include all four tunes from the Firenze show.....................just in the zone, as they say. ****************************************************** cool thread, thanks for the suggestion. It brought up a lot of good memories for me. Rick Walker www.looppool.info