Re: Batt'ries...

[Tim Nelson <psychle62@yahoo.com>]

--- lol c <testtubemicro@hotmail.com> wrote:
> good luck with you busk-loop. lemme know how it goes
> cos i have had some 
> similar ideas but never gotton round to it.

Well, this afternoon I went out for a couple of hours
on my second test run. Same setup as yesterday except
I brought the DL4 instead of the RC-20, and was
eBow-less due to a dead 9 volt!

The anti-amp legislation still had me a little
inhibited; I had the Pignose stashed covertly in a
backpack, but the big, honkin' green DL4 was a bit too
obvious. At one point, a bicycle cop passed right by
me, looked right at me, nodded and didn't stop. It was
probably because 1) the "amplified" loops were no
louder than the acoustic, 2) I was playing
oooh!-so-pretty fingerstyle and/or 3) all of the
nearby park benches were occupied by young ladies in
walking shorts and he didn't want to be seen as a Blue
Meany.

Even though the young ladies in walking shorts
definitely showed all the right symptoms of enjoying
the music, I really did feel a little constrained.
It's a different vibe from a regular gig; if I'm
playing a club or a gallery, someplace where the
audience comes *in* expecting to hear live music, I
don't feel like someone's about to come up and tell me
I'm being intrusive. I think it must have been the
amp, as I often take a mandola or a bouzouki along to
pass the time while waiting for the clothes to dry at 
the laundromat...

The only comment from a passerby that acknowledged the
fact that I was looping came from a guy pushing a
stroller who, upon seeing the DL4 at my feet, remarked
"Aha! I THOUGHT it sounded like there was more than
one of you!"

I may try it again tomorrow with sitar instead of
git-tar... Since both the DL4 and the RC-20 now have
batteries in them, maybe I'll use both of 'em. Pretty
soon, I'll look like Steve Martin in 'The Jerk'; "I
don't need anything. Just this. And this. And the
paddle game... And a lap steel... And..."

-t-

np: the television, where a public service spot for
Americans for the Arts just aired. The ad features a
dour, grouchy, art-deprived little boy who passes a
violinist playing in the park and tells him to "Get a
job." Ouch.

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