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I recently had the pleasure of catching Victor Wooten playing with Dennis Chambers and Mike Stern. Victor played some really looping solo passages. The previous year I saw the same show but Vin Bona was playing bass. He used a Jamman and a GR33 to build a wonderful looped song, along with vocals. It was really impressive and creative. Both shows were a memorable experience. ron -----Original Message----- From: "RICK WALKER" <looppool@cruzio.com> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: 6/8/07 1:43 PM Subject: BASS LOOPING INTERVIEW from 2001 I was doing some live looping research for a writer doing an article for a drum magazine and stumbled upon this 2001 roundtable interview with Michael Manring, Steve Lawson and myself that I had completely forgotten had existed. This really brought back fond memories and made me reflect on how far we've come in the past 6 years in the live looping scene. Rick Walker http://www.globalbass.com/archives/oct2001/the_loop.htm In The Loop A Roundtable discussion with Michael Manring, Steve Lawson, and Rick Walker by Daniel Elliott Most of the time it's business as usual for the professional music community, but every once in a while something really interesting happens. And fortunately for me, I was lucky enough to be there when it did. Last July, solo bassists, Michael Manring and Steve Lawson, along with percussionist, Rick Walker got together for a five date Northern California tour affectionately billed as The Worlds First Bass Looping Tour. This was a follow-up to the highly successful Worlds First Bass Looping Festival that took place in Santa Cruz, California last January. About a week before the tour kicked off, I got together with Michael, Steve and Rick via online chat to talk about their inspiration for this wild and wonderful idea. Daniel: I'll start out with some questions. Feel free to interject at your whim. Steve: Great Daniel. Go for it! Daniel: Can you give me a little background on looping, specifically Bass Looping? Michael: I'll take a crack at this. I'd say that looping probably goes back to the first experiments with electronic "Musique Concrete", but probably the most listened to more modern beginning was with Robert Fripp and Brian Eno. Steve: Was that when you first became aware of it Michael? Michael: Yes. I had read about tape experiments about the time I got some of those early records where those guys would actually make a long loop of tape and run it through a reel-to-reel machine. Of course, there was the original Echoplex - as far as I know the first device designed for tape loop stuff. And I suppose you could consider the Mellotron a looping device. Steve: The Mellotron was definitely a loop device! We all owe a great debt to Rick Wakeman. laughs Michael: I don't think it was too easy to make your own Mellotron loops, though. Daniel: How does tape looping and digital looping differ other than the medium? Rick: There is so much more flexibility with the advent of modern, real-time digital loopers. Steve: I think that physicality played a big part in how people related to tape looping; you could see it going round. You could keep the tapes if you covered the record head. Rick: I used to do this in the early eighties, in shows with people like Henry Kaiser. We would disengage the erase heads on the old tube Echoplexes. It gave us 3 minutes of loop time. We would do a long piece