Re: phil keaggy

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

....About 6 months or so ago, I saw Phil Keaggy in concert.  A small, 
intimate setting.  Although I have long recognized and admired his 
artistry, 
I am not an aficienado.  I went, not to check out a incredible 
fingerstylist 
(but boy was I impressed!), but to see how another looper worked the craft 
live.
To put it bluntly, I was nothing less than absolutely amazed.  Since I 
also 
use a JamMan,( love it and will keep using it even after the Repeater gets 
here!), I was especially impressed with his "interaction" with that box.
Throughout the show, I could be heard, whispering under my breath, "How'd 
he 
do that?" and "Oh, I have got to try that!"
It was incredibly inspiring, motivating, enlightening, entertaining and 
educational.  Ended up buying a couple of his cds that night.... and 
nicking 
a few of his techniques!
Max


>
>well...in addition to being able to do all the stuff that lots of 
>guitarists
>aspire to... making really cool rhythm loops and playing mindbending
>masterpieces over top of them... he will play a longish (20 seconds?)
>classical guitar line BACKWARDS so that when he flips it over it has a
>mellotron meets hendrix sound and will layer two or three parts on  top of
>it... and he's improvising it all! and he'll do it in an unfamiliar open
>tuning... i guess it's not his use of the jamman that is so incredible, 
>but
>his ability to seemlessly integrate it his deep musicality.
>


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