Re: the perils of live looping (addition question)

["max valentino" <ekstasis1@hotmail.com>]

What an interesting and enlightening thread.  Andre, are you always 
dropping 
pearls of wisdom?
I've got to chime in and second the thoughts on a performer being able to 
lead the audience, provided the performer knows how to do it...i.e. comes 
across with enough confidence and chutzpah to make the audience want to be 
led along. This is regardless of style, technique or chops.  A big part of 
of gig is "smoke and mirrors".
I am lucky enough to do a good number of live, solo loop shows, and one 
thing I tend to practice is ways to engage, and ways to turn a mediocre 
loop 
into something interesting.  Not practicing tunes, but just improvising 
loops, good and bad, and taking them as far as I can, as if it were a 
performance.  This has saved my butt more than a few times. It also works 
as 
a good practice for the foot-switch ballet we all seem so susceptible to.
Max

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