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Re: Off-Topicers Delight!

Hi Rick,

Liked your post. I know I for one will want to discuss acoustic guitar as percussion instrument quite a bit as time goes by here, I own and play about eight different acoustics, everything from resonators to baritones to flattops to classicals.

~Peter Hutter in Minnesota




 
>From: "Rick Walker/Loop.pooL"
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To:
>Subject: Off-Topicers Delight!
>Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2003 16:58:11 -0800
>
>Dear Kim,
>
>I read your post with great interest
>and have concurred with you on much of what you have said.
>
>I have a couple of thoughts in response:
>
>What we have here is a community of loopers that is unmoderated (a policy
>you
>have been almost militant about). As such most of these posts reflect
>where the
>people in this list are at and what they are interested in discussing.
>I always assume it is loopers speaking and it becomes quite obvious when
>some one
>is actually SPAMMING us, gratuitously, so I take it all with a grain of
>salt.
>
>Consequently, I read most of these posts in that context and they don't
>bother me
>(particularly when they have the ubiquitous OT brand on them).
>
>I'm so busy that I just can't read every post to this list so I do a lot of
>selective
>erasing to try and get to the things that interest me........I imagine that
>I am like most people here in that respect. I also know that I frequently
>miss some really good shit and would enjoin anyone on this list to post me
>off-list if they see a particular thread that they wish I would pipe in
>on.........I do miss a bunch, regretfully.
>
>My particular mild beef about Loopers Delight is that I wish there were more
>discussions about how people are getting creative in a musical sense with
>their
>techniques of looping.
>
>The creative threads for me have been the ones I"ve loved the most.
>I was selfishly hoping that people would go to town on the 'using the
>acoustic
>guitar as a percussion instrument' thread because it was so 'loop' specific
>in it's context.............but you can't win 'em all.
>
>I now go to the Repeater site and will begin going to the EDP site for
>specific gear related stuff because it is so much more pithy although the
>archives here are fantastic (and I repeatedly thank you for everything that
>you have done to make this
>available to us all).
>
>So, I agree with you mostly and I also think that 'it is what it it' and
>that is
>one of the prices we pay for having an un-moderated free community.
>
>I was telling someone today at the Flea Market about our community and I was
>saying
>that it seemed to me that we actually had a very high percentage of very
>creative
>and ambitious artists in our ranks...........higher than any musical genre
>or style
>that I"ve ever been associated with.............I guess with the creativity
>comes
>the idiosyncracies that make this place occasionally annoying.
>
>I direct you to my last post about changing the name of my new looping band
>as
>a loving poke at the uncontrollable nature of this website.
>
>It's a tad anarchic and I still think of it as an incredible blessing in my
>life.
>
>thanks for allowing it to happen (even when it's irritating).
>
>appreciatively yours, Rick Walker (loop.pool)

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