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Andre said: >I heard that at one point, Fripp was using an Oberheim Echoplex. Is that >still a part of his rig, or has he abandoned it in favor of 12 more T.C. >2290's? > >--Andre Fripp was signed up as an endorser for the echoplex. So was Belew. Gibson never did anything about it, and never really followed up on the deal as far as I could tell. That's kind of sad, because he could have given it some great publicity. I'm not sure if Robert is still using the Echoplex, but he was really quite excited about it when he got it. I never heard from him how he was using it, so if anyone ever saw him with it, I'd be very interested to hear the story. I had the pleasure of demoing the echoplex for him before one of the King Crimson shows in SF. That's one of my fonder memories from those days. Robert was very polite, and quite friendly. He was quite enthusiastic about the echoplex and wanted to start using it as soon as possible. From what I understand, he did use it, but I don't know if he still has it in his rack. He had received a jamman around the same time from lexicon, but after the plex demo, he said the jamduder was getting sent back. :-) I spent an hour or so talking with fripp and his guitar tech about gear and the music industry and such. It was very interesting to hear his perspective on gear and looping. He had nothing but praise for 2290's, and wanted to see similar features in other loopers. Of course, the 2290 is quite limited for looping, but it sounds great and works well for creating precise, interlocking polyrhythmic loops. That seemed to be the important function he used them for. He also complained a lot about having too many footpedals, and the fact that nobody makes a good midi foot controller. He was using a Ground Control, which he was very dissatisfied with. His problems with that pedal are similar to my complaints about it. It's midi implementation is ridiculously limited, having only program change and a couple of cont. controllers that can't be accessed from the footswitches. Worst is the lack of a midi in, so you can't dump your programming to disk and reload it. This made things very complicated since he needed to maintain redundant gear for touring. We also had similar experiences with the president of Digital Music, finding him to be a bit of an arrogant jerk, unwilling to listen to others suggestions. He and his tech took me up on the stage to explain his whole rack set up. Unfortunately, the details have gotten pretty hazy, so I probably can't describe it very well. I got to see the sound check and everything. And if you fripp/crimson fans aren't green enough from that, I even had dinner with Bill Bruford, who was probably the nicest fellow of them all. Anyway, thanks for tolerating my little nostalgia trip... kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com