Re: Phil Keaggy -> essential loop recordings

[Kim Flint <kflint@loopers-delight.com>]

At 02:38 PM 6/26/2003, Steve Lawson wrote:
>Phil Keaggy (Acoustic Sketches is fantastic - how does he get so much out 
>of
>an unmodded JamMan????)

One of the most common names I hear in relation to looping and influence 
is 
Phil Keaggy. I get mails all the time from Phil Keaggy fans asking me why 
he isn't mentioned somewhere on the Looper's Delight site, or what gear he 
uses, or how he uses loops or whatever. A lot of them are just blown away 
by the things he pulls off live with his JamMan. Interestingly, his name 
hardly ever comes up on this list. I can only assume that people into Phil 
Keaggy have to spend a lot more time practicing and don't have time to 
hang 
out on a mailing list with all the people using looping to cover their 
lack 
of skill on their instrument. Or maybe Keaggy fans are on the list but 
they've developed carpal tunnel and are unable to type a post. Whatever it 
is, he's actually a much bigger part of the looping world than you would 
gather from this list.

Anyway, it is very clear to me that Keaggy has been hugely influential in 
getting a lot of acoustic guitar fingerpicking types interested in 
looping. 
Quite a few Echoplex users I've met are coming from that direction, 
although Keaggy actually uses a JamMan. (I think he got an echoplex at 
some 
point but went back to the jamman since that's what he was used to using.) 
As I understand, he actually got into looping because of Chet Atkins, who 
was a JamMan user and told Keaggy to try it. Keaggy is a great example of 
looping being used in a very different context from what a lot of people 
expect. For that reason, and since his music is quite good and he does the 
looping thing quite well, I think he would be a good choice for the 
essential listening section.

Unfortunately he's another case for me of somebody well outside my normal 
listening, so I'm not sure which cd's represent a good use of his looping. 
I did a google search and came up with some interviews where he talks 
about 
using the jamman a lot on "Acoustic Sketches" from 1998, and since that 
seems to be a highly regarded album it may be a great choice. Any Phil 
Keaggy fans out there who can chime in?

kim


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