Re: Bill Frisell a master at work.. some great use of looping

[Petri Lahtinen <kollegavalmentaja@gmail.com>]

Rick -> how come?
I have been enormously checkin out Brian Blade in past months :-D
Black Dub and his jazz work - exceptional player - a breeze from the
good old times :-D



2012/2/6 Scott Hansen <evanpeewee@gmail.com>:
> thanks for posting these. i'll have to watch them later. in regards to 
> the
> below-he has played strats since the album w/ dave holland and elvin 
> jones
> (maybe even before that)...it's just that live during the 1st part of the
> 2000s he played a tele mostly. i think recording
> he favors short scale teles (not sure if he ever traveled w/ them) that 
> he's
> had made, i'll have to watch that NPR piece closely. in the last few yrs
> he's used some jagaur/jazzmaster things also....
>
> for me w/ his looping: i often wonder if it's down to what tools work or 
> are
> available to him (line 6 dl4). certainly i think he used to use the EH
> 16ddl, but i think his broke (but nels clines' still works!). and then he
> moved on to the digitech pds8000, which honestly i think is a brilliant 
> tool
> in his hands...which the new "jamman" versions and even the digitech dl8 
> is
> not really even close to it....which is a shame i think....i guess i'm
> talking more of the varispeed stuff he did during the ghost town album, 
> or
> the stuff he demos on the "guitar artistry of bill frisell" (it's on the 
> 2/5
> section of the youtube clips) (which i think is just F***ING 
> BRILLIANT!!!).
> i really wish someone would do an in depth interview w/ him and his 
> looping
> , past and gear....but i think for him it's just a tool that he uses to
> create....which is probably the lesson there...oh well....
> s---
>
>
> re:"  I'm not an expert regarding this musician's work. Do you guys think
> Frisell himself likes that guitar sound he was playing on? Or maybe he 
> just
> cares more about the playing?"
>
>



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Petri