Why Looping is so popular with Guitarists??

[David Kirkdorffer <DKirkdorffer@exapps.com>]

I think the reason you see so many guitarists associated with Looping is
simple - there are so many guitarists.

I mean, look at an average band.  They'll have TWO guitarists, one
singer, one bassist and one drummer.  One in 6 bands may have a keyboard
player.  

To make the point another way, I think there must be a 5:1 ratio of
guitar magazines to compared to other publications focusing on other
instruments.

Also, maybe there's a stronger tradition of guitarists buying effects to
do stuff to their sound than keyboard players (who get more choices in a
single synth than a guitarist can dream of with a wall of rack-mount
gear). 

It may not be anything more than a numbers game.
d


        -----Original Message-----
        From:   Kim Flint [SMTP:kflint@annihilist.com]
        Sent:   Thursday, February 12, 1998 12:54 PM
        To:     Loopers-Delight@annihilist.com
        Subject:        Re: What does a Echo-plex cost?

        At 3:39 PM +0000 2/12/98, Os wrote:
        >Michael P. Hughes, Ph.D. wrote:
        >
        >> 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. 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.

        you know, it just baffles me how looping gets so associated with
guitar.
        (at least in some circles...)  The sound going into the loop can
be
        anything, where do people get the idea that its just a guitar
effect?
        mystery.....

        kim


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