Fwd: 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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