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Luis, That's an interesting account of your experience. I'd like to share my story. Besides having my own creative music group "the embryo" I sing and play guitar solo 3 evenings a week at the transit bar at the local airport here. Over the past 2 years I began incorporating looping devices into my playing. At first it was a way to expand my solo guitar format by creating loops with chord progressions and later on adding guitar soundboard slaps which was ok with familiar covers. The story goes really when some drunks were asking for Hotel California and then asked midsong where's the guitar solo man?!" and at the end of of it will flap their hands like sea lions only missing them with one of them hollering "ya ya, that was so so but where was the rhythm guitar man!?" I smiled but felt so defeated. Then I discovered the DL4! Those same folks were rolling on the floor went they came by and are now one of my regulars. Heh :) Anyway later on along the way after much ongoing trial and embarrasing (hopefully forgettable) on the job errors I expanded my cover improvs into loopy soundcapey territories just to see how I could go with this and to see how the audience and the management's staff would react. I usually had to make a visual scan of the place and decide if it'll work beforehand. My confidence was built upon expressed accepatance and encouragement from the many lovely transit passengers I met along the way. It's occured to me that most bar managers will only approve what the patrons do. Thankfully things have worked in my favour so far . Hope this has been of interest. Tanx for reading and sharing everyone! :) Oh ya btw I use the following for my transit bar gig. Do recommend me other interesting devices to expand my sounds ya. Randolf Arriola uses; 1. Godin Steel Duet/ Steel SA 2. CS3 Compressor (modded) 3. Yamaha Magicstomp 4. Boss DD20 5. Line6 DL4 6. Proel Expression pedal for DL4 Randolf Arriola (aka the embryo) http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/theembryo.htm http://www.myspace.com/the_embryo ----- Original Message ----- From: "L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com> To: <artists@hazardfactor.com>; <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:19 AM Subject: RE: ? re: really "weird" solo loopers... > hey Dave,i had a familiar experience: > i played at an irish pub where i did a loop show. and > the result was odd; i saw a lot of men walking out and > after the show some older women came to me and told me > how they enjoyed the show.The bar owners wife after > this women gave me a compliment in front of her said > "nice i enjoyed it too,but i dont think this was the > right place for it" > A month later her husband the bar owner who had just > gotten back from vacation called me and ask me if i > could fill in for a band that didnt show up and said > "u can do whatever u want just dont do that weird > stuff u did last time;-)" > Another one was in Italy where i played in a huge > disco for a hand full of people.I could tell the owner > and the sound crew found it perhaps interesting but > were a bit puzzled because once again it wasnt the > place for it.Afterwards i thought, hey i could have > looped just as good but in a different way,thats the > beauty of improvising alone,perhaps integrating more > triphop or downbeat grooves which people are familiar > with and which i also love,but i was so into what i > personally wanted to show or do that night that i > didnt think of anything else... > One thing i do now days is to relax,take a deep > breath,observe the whole picture before the show and > try to get a feeling of the place,audience and > atmosphere,telling myself that even if it goes wrong > it will be another step to something.i dont plan a set > list either,just make notes of the endless looping > ideas to throw in.Somehow this has helped my > confidence not to get deteriorated by such experiences > many of us go through... > or ive matured;-) > Luis > > > --- hazard factor <artists@hazardfactor.com> wrote: > > > For me too, it means 'avante-garde' or > > 'experimental', or 'difficult > > listening' if you had never been exposed to such a > > thing. So, if one does > > this, where do you play, and how often? Do you have > > to 'tame' it down for > > some gigs? And did any one ever get fired from a gig > > because it was too odd? > > > > > > Dave Eichenberger > > http://www.hazardfactor.com > > > > > > > > > But weird....really wierd solo looping....I'd have > > to say it > > > mostly falls into experimental and avant-garde to > > me...when > > > it's weird, it generate a distrinct feeling for > > me....but > > > that is probably just my own idiosyncrasity. > > > > > > Kris > > > > > > > > > > > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > >