Re: Re:Y2K3 and thoughts on "community"

["max valentino" <ekstasis1@hotmail.com>]

Ted....
Who is being kind now?  Thank you so very much. Actually yours was the 
first 
set I caught when I blew into town, and, in all honesty, I was genuinely 
impressed by your "texturized mayhem" form of guitar wrangling.....it was 
truely impressive.  You probably hadn't the time to notice, as your hands 
were quite busy at the time, but from the audience perspective you create 
a 
pressence that is quite in "the zone" (I do hope Mark H. gort some pics of 
you in that zone....)

For my own set I really strived to present something which was quite 
different from what others were doing.  Scott Drengsen, Michael K. and I 
had 
a debate over who had the smallest rig ( and I guess Mark Hamburg could 
fit 
into this competition, also). I went for my set "sans" effects (save for 
"Mercy Street" where I did use a tempo sync'd delay and 'verb..but it is a 
friggin Peter Gabriel song, after all). SO, most of my set was bass into 
Raven Labs preamp to a JamMan...and that's it!  I tried to present 
"tunes", 
most of which were composed pieces and not improvisations, of varied 
styles(even that smooth jazz number) inwhich looping was incorporated into 
the structure of the tune (and hence doing a cover tune as well).  I was 
not, and still am not, all that concerned with treating and processing 
either my sound or the loops, but rather working with the loops to an 
integral and interactive component of the composition and performance as 
opposed to being something which is played to.

Actually it has been quite "liberating" and inspiring to free myself from 
MIDI, effects processing and such.....not to mention after witnessing 
yourself and Bill Walker do your things, I am a bit intimidated to even 
try 
again.

Max

BTW...a new CD is in the works............

>From: ArsOcarina@aol.com
>
>Max Valentino -- It's rather stupid to call this guy just a "bassist."
>His music is "whole" and "complete" . . . he's a musician. I loved
>the instrumental Peter Gabriel cover at the end of your set too.
>Wow! I already have you CD. I'd have bought another if you'd
>make one.
>

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