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RE: First Excursions into Frippertronics
Title: RE: First Excursions into
Frippertronics
At 9:28 PM -0800 11/22/02, Kim Flint wrote:
Les Paul was using looping in the late
50's (1956?), on tour and doing his radio shows with Mary Ford and the
Les Paulverizer. Certainly they were much more commercial than Fripp,
although probably not resulting in many people becoming loopers due to
the prohibitive cost of the equipment at the time.
speaking of which, someone recently
pointed out how the looping history page on LD has no mention of Les
Paul, which does seem like quite an oversight. Does anybody know
enough about what he did to add something about that to the
page?
I've been unable to find any solid references to Les Paul's
rumored looping techniques (not that I dispute these rumors in the
least!). His seminal work in multitrack recording is well documented,
but the following are vague and speculative:
During the 1940s Les Paul is alleged to have implemented
the first live delay system using a disk cutter and a second playback
tone arm.
During the 1950s he is alleged to have used a loop-based
tape echo system.
Also at that time he is alleged to have used a tape loop
system to do live overdubbing.
The Les Paulverizer is a guitar-mounted controller for his
backing tapes, but details on it have eluded me.
If anyone can get me a phone number for Les Paul I'll be happy to
call him and get some details.
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