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Re: why do we loop?or why play live?



Yes i must admit that ive also had very positive
responses as well and people complimenting and showing
curiosity.The funny thing is that at loop shows is
mostly females who扉e come up to me and said nice
things...i always thought looping was more of a boy
with repeating toyz thing...;-)
Luis



--- David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote:

> At 1:58 AM -0700 10/7/05, Luis Angulo wrote:
> 
> >i did a loop show at an art
> >gallery and as i was bulding up some guitar loops
> as i
> >heard a guy commenting next to me "oh
> yeah,nice,sure
> >but thats no art playing through prerecorded stuff"
> >this agreviated me because i had already taken the
> >time to explain the audience briefly what i was
> doing
> >and that same guy was there!
> 
> Ack!  That is annoying.  But I think there's always
> going to be some 
> wiseass who thinks he's being fooled.
> 
> In my experience, most people are surprised and
> delighted when they 
> figure out that it's one guy playing four or five
> guitars at a time.
> 
> Whenever I have an opportunity to explain what's
> going on, I make a 
> very careful point of saying it's all done in real
> time.
> 
> Looping isn't the center of what I do.  I'm a
> songwriter who uses 
> looping to enhance his performance.  I almost always
> begin with a 
> loop improvisation,  starting with a simple chord
> pattern or 
> single-note line, but it fairly quickly leads into a
> song.  I use the 
> loop device to capture the changes so I can play a
> solo later - that 
> kind of thing.
> 
> There's always gonna be someone who dismissed this
> stuff as 
> gimmickry.  There's always gonna be some
> condescending (and 
> ill-informed) asshole in the crowd.  Screw 'em.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
> Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102,
> Oakland CA 94610-2730
> 
> 


www.luis-angulo.com


        
                
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