Re: What does a Echo-plex cost?

["Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D." <pycraft@elec.gla.ac.uk>]

>> It's sad to say, but I really can't see a lot of these shipping in the 
>UK.
>> There hasn't been any innovation in UK guitar (OK, at least not much) 
>since
>> Andy Summers arrived in the early 80s.  People will pay for gear in 
>Britain
>> - just not much that's been invented less than 30 years ago.  You don't
>> need an EDP to play Oasis/Blur/etc/etc/etc.....
>Curious that you assume that guitar players will determine the fate of
>the EDP.

Yes, quite wrong of me.  I'm just guitar-centric since, uh, I play one.  

>I for one would use it with synths; a friend of mine loops with
>piano (cf. Harold Budd); and any number of new-age types like to go
>'oooh' into loopers as part of a performance (eg. Alquimia).
>Trumpet/sax/clarinet also loop pleasingly.

I'm sure they do;  I'll admit I'm something of an old crusty when it comes
to music.  I'm sure that there is probably a mass market in the underground
rave market (is that word passe yet?), but I'll admit not knowing a great
deal about it - these bones weren't built for dancin'.  

I'll admit a longing for the early days of the 80s when experimentation was
cool - the Police the Art of Noise, King Crimson.  Nowadays most popular
music seems so ... old.  And as regards guitar players, I find it sad that
most of my guitar "heroes" form two distinct sets - British from pre-1980
(Summers, Fripp, Holdsworth, Mike Oldfield etc) and US post-1980 (Torn,
Frizell etc)...

Michael

Old beyond his 27 years.