Looping At Burning Man

["David Potter" <papadave55@hotmail.com>]

The Burning Man experience was about the most amazing thing that I've ever 
been involved with.  Those that make judgements without experiencing it 
first hand are missing out.  Burning Man does not need any of them.  There 
were artists, inventers, pranksters and muscians of all kinds.  It's way 
to 
vast even to try to explain.  I felt at home...in my village and with my 
tribe.  But OOOOOOOhhhhhhhh the dust!!!  I did take a jamman a line 6 DL4 
some delay pedals a boomerang a vortex.  I did a set in the Cafe at night 
for a whole lot of people. I looped for an hour to great reviews and 
reflection from the crowd.
I didn't have any prepared material I just looped and cut loose and let 
the 
crowd play me.
    I also looped with some musicians in the Black Light District one 
night 
and had a great time.
    I rigged up a milk crate on the back of my bike and stuck my Dl4 and a 
delay pedal there as well.  I had a battery powered tambora dronning along 
as I rode too.  I carried a mike in my hand as I cruzed about the Playa.  
I 
put the DL4 on loop/delay and sampled and looped the citizens of Black 
Rock 
City making all sorts of random ambient sounds and noises much to their 
delight.  To those that were interested I explained what looping was.
     Some of the gear got really dusted and I fell over once on my bike.  
The battery powered tambora is tweaked a little and the amps' battery case 
came loose.  When the big dust storms hit I put stuff into suitcases then 
into garbage bags and locked it in the truck.(dust still gets into a 
sealed 
locked truck but not into the garbage bagged stuff.)
     I cleaned and dusted everything when I got back and it all works.
I'll rethink what I will take next year but I will take some stuff and I 
will go for sure.  A looping village sounds great.  A big problem was 
hauling the gear around the city by strapping it to a dolly and hauling it 
a 
mile and a half each way to the cafe.  That stopped me from doing more 
looping demos.
     I heard one other guy in the cafe with a computer and a bunch of  
looping gear try to get it going but had to many gear problems and a big 
dust storm was hitting.  He was from back east somewhere.
     Any comments from the Black Rock City Loopers?  Send to 
papadave55@hotmail.com

            Wildest most fun time I ever had!!!!  Om and Out
                                   Papa Dave

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