Re: the mermen - live looping

["David" <vze2ncsr@verizon.net>]

I remember seeing The Mermen on a rare East Coast tour when they played TT
The Bears in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This may have been 93 or 94??  There
was a lot of buzz on them at the time, and the curiosity factor was high,
well, as were many of those who were curious...

Among the post-modern highly educated punk rock music intelligentsia
present, suspicions were aroused when they took an hour to set up.  Perhaps
the club was smaller than they are used to playing, but the guitarist had
tons of equipment, including three pedal boards and at least two EDP's
tucked into two 6-space racks of gear.

Sadly, it seemed the hype outstripped at least that evenings performance.

The music was fine, if a little plodding and perhaps also somewhat
derivative.  But the presentation of so much equipment that in the end only
added up to the sonic equivalent of a boss analog delay and chorus pedal 
was
the stuff of much teehee-ing and side jokes with a crew of people standing
around me.

Perhaps these people weren't high enough... :-)

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "jimfowler" <jimfowler@prodigy.net>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:52 AM
Subject: the mermen - live looping


> saw the mermen last night (holy jeebus!) and what do i spy in jim thomas'
> rack but an obie edp.  it wasn't used extensively, but i was keeping an
eye
> on the gear and he was pulling off some very smooth live looping.
>
> the mermen rule.
>
> -jim
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