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All ego aside... I am my own favorite looper. I guess Imogen is a close second. Teddy Kumpel and Mister Shifty On Apr 23, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Rick Walker wrote: > I realized that from all the responses to the thread I started about > famous live loopers that it's pretty obvious that we should start a > new list of our favorite live loopers. > > I didn't say it in my initial posting, but the first list got > started merely > as a selling point to journalists that we are trying to get interested > in live looping. > > Obviously, someone like David Torn, who has used live looping > integrally in his music > for years and years is on a different level, aethetically, with his > looping than say > some one like Eddie Vedder who used some live looping in his > concert in Santa Cruz > last week, but the fact is that millions and millions of people > know Eddie Vedder, > (just as tens of thousands know about David Torn and thousands > know about Zoe Keating) so this is > something that I can use when I am trying to spread the gospel of > this thing we love > to music journalists, radio DJs and television producers. > > Spiritually, that means that this list is going to be necessarily > superficial and unsatisfying to > lots of people on this list. I completely know that. > Oddly enough, the intent is not a popularity list, just a hook > the journalists list so they can start > paying attention to the people on the next list I"m going to > suggest that we start. > > Now, let's get down to the real nitty gritty. > > WHO ARE OUR FAVORITE LOOPERS? OUR MOST INFLUENTIAL LOOPERS? > (mass fame has no bearing on this list) > > please resubmit anyone mentioned before for this one. -- PS. -- EPK my band, Mister Shifty, is doing some shows at Nightingale Lounge... Featuring Teddy K - gtr, vocals, toy keyboard, kazoo and cb mic Matt Miller on drums ? on bass every Thursday in April all shows 8pm, 2 long sets http://nightingalelounge.com 212.473.9398 213 Second Avenue (NW Corner of East 13th St. & 2nd Ave.) NYC 10003 Trains: L,N,Q,R,W,4,5,6 to Union Square/ 14th Street, L to 1st Avenue more gigs: April 25th at Banjo jim's, nyc 8pm (opening for Lenny Kaye) April 26th at Ace of Clubs, nyc 11pm (chris crosby's birthday party) we are part of the following sites: jam base my space -- Teddybut's song "My Country" is featured on Neil Young's "LIVING WITH WAR TODAY" site __ "The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side." --Hunter S. Thompson