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--- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > Wow, I just got from a very stimulating show, > watching Thomas Dolby It sure was a treat. I was literally right in front of him and it was an amazing show. > What was very exciting is that every act on the bill > used live looping > techniques extensively. Was Thomas looping audio? I couldn't tell. There were a couple of times it seemed like he was looping a line using MIDI. I saw no hardware looper, but he could have been running a software looper. > Genie (who had such a wonderfully creative show at > Y2K5) Yeah, who knew he was the only person in the world doing live looped guitar? I'm glad he told me. Kidding aside, his set was pretty cool but man I hate when an artist comes up and proclaimes they're the originator of something or the best at something. This turns me off to a lot of rap music. > > The the excellent group LoopStation performed with, > again, Line 6 DL4s and what looked > from my vantage point to be a Boss gigadelay. I was blown away by this act. The interaction between both of them and the energy was great. I must pick up their music QUICK. They were by far the best last night, IMO. > Dolby's set was just sublime replete with wonderful > visuals. He had > several cameras on his person and there were > frequent images from one of them in black and white > on the large screen. At times I thought the "Dolby cam" was a little sickening. To much motion! The times he had it slurred and slo mo were a lot easier to enjoy. The rest of the visuals were perfect though. > The canned-ness of it didn't bother me in the > slightest because he really > was multi-tasking and playing a lot. I honestly though it did suffer a little from being kind of canned. As a person who feels kind of canned on stage, I'm not sure I have an answer for this, but his act was missing something that LoopStation had in buckets. Perhaps if he had another musician up there? A lot of his songs have great guitar parts, I'd love to have seen another guitarist up there. HIs technical glitches didn't bother me, in fact if further won me over to see how charming and humble he was as he tossed teeshirts out and joked about the technology. Maybe it was just my mood... I've seen Laurie do one woman tech shows and didn't think it canned at all. It's a minor complaint though, I had a great time at the show... except that I had to ask the drunken idiots next to me to stop chatting loudly to themselves 5 times. Mark Sottilaro __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com