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Re: average age of the looping community
is that in loop years rick???
i just turned 36 dec 13th
life is good...
http://www.jimmygeorgearts.com
----- Original Message -----
From: Rick Walker/Loop.pooL <GLOBAL@cruzio.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Monday, February 10, 2003 4:44 PM
Subject: average age of the looping community
> 49 = 7 X 7 for me
>
> did my first looping performance in 1980 with TAO ELECTRICAL
> which was a spinoff group of popular new wave band I was in, TAO
>CHEMICAL.
> Didn't do another one until the release of the lexicon JAMMAN (redubbed
the
> JAMPERSON
> for our politically correct and non-sexist People's Republic of Santa
>Cruz
> audiences.**
>
> At the end of our set at an electronic music concert (with Dr. Richard
> Zvonar and Bob Beede on the bill, by the way) each of the members of
>this
> trio (bass, guitar and drums = me) recorded a loop onto three original
tube
> echoplexes with erase disengaged (manually, i believe but I didn't
actually
> do that so I can't say for sure) and, one by one,
> we walked of into the audience and let the performance continue by
>itself.
> I thought we were doing something that had never been done before
>(because
I
> wasn't influenced by anyone to think up the idea) but have since, due to
> that same
> academic genius, Dr. Zvonar come to find that it was all old hat by that
> time.
>
> Noone in that audience had ever heard it (which is true of most of the
> audiences that I
> play for still, to this day.....LOL.
>
> A couple of years later, a guy just reminded me a couple of months ago,
>he
> saw me
> at the old UNION GROVE (pre-earthquake) playing one of the original
digital
> delays and I had it on an infinite repeat and was singing faux pygmy
> yodelling
> into it with a really primitive harmonizer.
>
> I had completely forgotten this as I was poor as a church mouse (living
off
> of
> really 'out of the box' music at the time) and couldn't possibly afford
the
> gear
> I was drooling over until this guy reminded me.
>
> He said, "You've been looping for 20 years, man".
>
> It startled me because the instant the Lexicon Jamman came out, I bought
one
> and ended
> up playing them for 8 years (ultimately three of them synchronized with
> midi) until
> I purchased the DL-4.
>
> I did my recent live CD with two of those until I bought my Repeater and
> added it to the
> madness.
>
> Then, just recently I got my first EDP with loop 4: whole new ballgame
> again.
>
> I have the Repeater feeding the EDP (through AUX 1) and the EDP feeding
the
> Repeater
> (through AUX 2) and have retired my DL4s (that I love dearly) for
everything
> except
> my
>
> PORTABLE BUSKING LOOPING RIG which consists of a battery powered head
>set
> mic, battery powered mini amplifier, battery bowered DL4, battery powered
> Boss Intellishifter
> all feeding into a dweeby, little girls plastic portable CD amplifier
>made
> of,
> you guessed it, TRANSLUCENT DAYGLO LIME GREEN PLASTIC!!!
>
> This is all velcroed onto a high school marching drum apparatus made of
> aluminum.
> I think there are photos of me by Ted Killian on my website if my
> webmistress (wow, it gets me hot calling my wife that......LOL) has put
them
> up yet.
>
> LOOP ON!
>
> rick walker (aka.loop.pool)
> www.looppool.info
>
>
> *I still have the little graphics kit to change the front panel graphics
of
> the JAMMAN
> to say JAMPERSON if anyone else thinks this is appropos, as I do. E-mail
me
> off list
> and I'll get one out to you if I can find it........lol
>
>