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In '67 the kind of amps we wanted were "big amps!" lol Jeff ----- Original Message ----- From: "L.Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 7:10 PM Subject: Re: ART Regular Output vs. Inspiration > Hey bro, > excellent topic Rick ma man! >I remember when i was younger only caring about my guitar,my 3 >pedals(chorus,distortion,delay)and >not even my amp that much(i would >settle with anything that would amplify my guitar;-) > > > > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom > > > --- On Sat, 11/29/08, Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote: > >> From: Rick Walker <looppool@cruzio.com> >> Subject: ART Regular Output vs. Inspiration >> To: "LOOPERS DELIGHT (posting)" <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> >> Date: Saturday, November 29, 2008, 3:56 PM >> I heard of a study years ago that I quote to my students all >> the time. >> I heard about this study 2nd or 3rd hand and never actually >> read about it >> and it occurs to me that my telling of it changes slightly >> each time I tell it >> and it might be good to go back and read about the original >> study so I can >> be more accurate in my quoting. >> >> This may be woefully different than the original (and all >> apologies to academics that >> I might offend with my rather primal and unsophisticated >> oral history approach that I use telling it >> but it is at least illustrative in it's 'big >> yarn' version. >> >> I'd love it if someone could direct me to the original >> study!!!! >> >> . I've googled it without a lot of success. >> (oh Richard Zvonar, where are you my researching genius >> brother) >> >> For what it's worth, it goes something like this: >> >> Some Art professors at Stanford University did a study >> where they took a large number >> of visual artists (I think 150 but I"m not sure) and >> for one year they separated them equally into >> to distinct camps. >> >> The 75 artists from Camp number ONE were told that they >> could create purely from inspiration...............not >> fearing a bad grade >> if they didn't have a large >> output....................'just follow your heart' >> they were enjoined and only create when >> you are inpsired. >> >> The 75 artists from Camp number TWO were told that they had >> to turn in a finished piece of work on a weekly basis, >> whether they were inspired or >> not. Whatever it was it had to be finished and it had to >> be a constant weekly output. >> >> At the end of one year, they took all the artwork together >> and randomized it; giving it to several prominent art >> critics to >> critique and rate the art. >> >> Amazingly and consistently, the artwork from Camp TWO >> (constant output with our without inspiration) was judged >> to >> be 'better art' than the artwork of Camp ONE >> (inspiration without necessary constant output). >> >> ******************* >> In the year 2000, I decided, after hearing about this >> study, that I was going to attempt a full legnth CD a year >> for the rest of my life. >> I was successful for the first four years of the decade and >> my output has fallen off considerably since then (though I >> have 6 completely >> different CD projects in various forms of completion >> because I also gave my self permission not to worry about >> style in my creativity but >> to constantly make music and finish individual pieces. >> >> Before that, I had made 3 really perfectionistic released >> recordings in my life over the previous 20 >> years..............I was very proud of all >> of those recordings. >> But in returning to those CDs, as much as I think I did the >> best I could, artistically, I realize looking back that >> they were just who I was at the time: >> works in progress, as it were. >> >> In retrospect, I look back on the first eight years of this >> decade with that production output philosphy behind me that >> I have grown at a vastly more >> rapid pace in my abilities and in my sohpistication as a >> musician because I started to join the Camp TWO approach. >> >> Ironically, I've also discovered that the instances of >> very creative 'inspirational' output has gone up >> significantly using this approach so I think I"m >> getting >> the best of both worlds. >> >> The only drawback I can see using this approach is that it >> makes it more difficult to market oneself to the world at >> large because this approach >> encourages a lot of stylistic diversity which makes it >> tough for people to categorize your recordings in record >> stores and online. >> I think , though, that I"ve reconciled myself to that >> anyway. > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - http://www.avg.com Version: 8.0.176 / Virus Database: 270.9.13/1828 - Release Date: 12/4/2008 8:05 AM