Re: Loopstock appreciation

[Richard Zvonar <zvonar@zvonar.com>]

I'd also like to voice my appreciation for the remarkable effort put 
in by Hans and company, and for the wonderful music and camaraderie 
of the event. This is truly a fine group, and I was especially glad 
that I decided to hang out until Sunday to have brunch with eleven 
other loopers at a damn fine restaurant in SLO.

Several people remarked about the quality of the event. It was 
certainly one of the smoothest self-regulating technical concert 
situations I've experienced outside of a fully professional 
production. The "house" team had established a solid infrastructure, 
and this enabled the rest of us to slide into our slots with a 
minimum of fuss. Everyone arrived with their gear pretty well 
organized, so even though there were a few minor glitches there was 
no complete melt-down.

I'm sorry I wasn't able to devote 100% of my attention to all the 
other artists. I spent a fair amount of time with headphones one, 
getting my own system ready and figuring out what I was goint to do 
(I realize in retrospect that the last time I did this sort of 
performance was more than three years ago!).

Among those whose sets I did catch in their entirety were Jon and 
Matthias, Rick Walker, Ted and Dr. Bob, Tom Heasley, and Bill Walker. 
The Walkers are old friends (since the mid-70s!) from Santa Cruz, and 
I've had the chance to see both perform recently. I have a particular 
fondness for Rick's fine madness, and I've had a couple of recent 
opportunities to participate in it under the redwoods and in a 
retired bank. Bill has always been a terrific guitarist, but I am 
really knocked out by the clarity of both his playing and his 
compositional process.

It was certainly a treat and an honor to finally meet Matthias after 
all these years, especially in the company of Gary Hall and Larry 
"the O" Oppenheimer. I started performing with the PCM-42 back in 
1982 and over the years I've been privileged to become friends with 
its creator and with other practitioners of the fine art of DSP-based 
performance. It's great to hang out socially with the creators of 
such tools and to find out they have weaknesses for such things as 
Komodo dragons.
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