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Actually, I care quite a bit HOW it's done ...it doesn't lessen the magic of the performance. In fact for me, it deepens the expereince knowing what the performers is doing to accomplish their feats. I had a friend who, along with his father, were accomplished magicians. They would DELIBERATELY show how they did a trick. They made it perfectly clear to the point that I could do it as well ... but to watch them do the trick was still a delight because what I was know seeing was their mastery of the trick (this was, BTW, years before Penn and Teller began their "debunking" approach to magic). The same goes for how this video was done ... someone says this guy is looping, I want to see HOW he is using the tools. And you can't see it with this video. I think the real fault, if there is one to be laid, is with WIRED for their presentation ... but I guess if it means that David will get more listeners then "it's all good." Sure the guy is definitely talented and I'm not trying to take that away from him. I'm sorry I won't be able to make it in to Boston to night to catch him at the Paradise to see him do this live. But I'm pretty convinced now that what we saw in this video was not David doing an actual recording of that song. Dennis On 4/22/08, Steve Lawson <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk> wrote: > It's an 'artist's impression' of a real performance - I've seen David >live a > few times, he's great, and does indeed loop in that way with, I think, an > RC-20 (though he has a violinist he sometimes works with who has a more > complex set-up IIRC). > > I'm pretty sure that that is 'reconstructed', the way that his 'one >take' > video for State Of the Union was... > > ...all of which is a techie-geek distraction from his lovely >songwriting. > Who really gives an eff how it's done? :o) > > Steve > > Where to find me on the web - > _______________________ > ********************************* > *** www.stevelawson.net - site > *** http://steve.anthropiccollective.org - blog > *** www.myspace.com/solobassstevelawson > *** www.reverbnation.com/stevelawson > *** www.twitter.com/solobasssteve > *** http://www.youtube.com/user/StevieSteve46 - loads of > new video here! > >