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I'm totally with Kim on this. I ALWAYS try to find a way to arrange my equipment so that the rack is besides me. And as many of you who have racks will know, stages are not always optimal for the player to do this. However, I can't tell you how many times people come up to me after shows and say how they really got into seeing me operate effects in my rack. People seem to "get" the music better when they get to see it built. Others have mentioned stuff about seeing what I'm concentrated on helps them feel connection to what is going on. David ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 1:31 AM Subject: Re: Sit or Stand? Guitarist and Bassists only > At 05:49 PM 2/20/2005, Gary Lehmann wrote: > >Now that the traffic has died down, time to clutter your mailbox again >8) > >with a poll of the looping string players: how many sit and how many stand? > > Interesting, I always meant to comment about this after these various >loop > festivals. > > Having watched many looper guitarists perform, I really, really think >many > of you need to learn to play standing up. Guitarists sitting down almost > always look very lame. They have less stage presence, less energy, and less > connection with the audience than guitarists standing up. Especially if you > sit in a crappy looking chair instead of a stool, and do the big > flappy-foot, legs-spread style of toe tapping. ugh. > > The only two people I've seen pull it off sitting down were Matthias Grob > and Steve Lawson, and I think it is because they are both very tall, have > good posture, and have the stage experience to engage the audience >anyway. > > There are only three contexts where I think guitarists look ok sitting > during a performance: a) big band jazz (at the end of the sax line), b) > classical (with a stool), and c) when they have some apparent physical > hardship (like being a 97 year old blind blues player). > > Yes, I know. It is hard to tap the buttons while standing. But if Andre > LaFosse can do his thing standing up, you can learn to do it too. He taps > buttons a thousand times more often than you. Practice standing up, and you > will be fine. > > Oh, and while we are at it: The ugly rack of gear. I'm really tired of > being in the audience and watching a performance by the back of an ugly > rack of gear. You have a big tangle of ugly cables all spilling out, and > your head barely poking up over the top. Most of your racks do not have > good stage presence. Move the rack somewhere to the side or behind you. Buy > some interesting cloth to put over it. Let the audience see you. Let them > see you push the buttons and turn the knobs. Let them see the blinky lights > instead of the back. Hide the cables. It will really really help. > > kim > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com >