Re: live looping concerts

["Stephen Goodman" <spgoodman@earthlight.net>]

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From: "Charlie Milkey" <pilotcp@gmail.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Wednesday, 9 August, 2006 17:10 PM
Subject: live looping concerts


> Hello all!
>
> i don't mean to ruffle any feathers, but i am also a jamband fan, and
> i love live concerts. One thing about a good jamband is that you can
> go see them many times and never see the same concert twice...not
> because of a large library of songs, but because a lot of them
> improvise and play different lines a lot. Because of this (and there
> are probably other reasons too) jambands are ok with tapers, and don't
> mind if you record an entire concert and put it on the internet. I
> know with bands like Phish and Grateful Dead they played a lot of
> covers and jammed on those, and then there are bands like Jacob Fred
> Jazz Oddysey (a great band to check out...they even are slowly getting
> onto looping!) and Cream (well, i know they aren't a jamband, but they
> were known to jam on a song for 20-30 minutes...check out live cream
> vol. I and II) and they only started a familiar song's hook or just
> laid out the structure at the beginning, but the song would be played
> completly different then what was on the studio version, and that
> would be good for fans of the band, because its a wealth of unreleased
> material :)
>
> What does this have to do with looping? well, i know with my looping
> and i am sure this is the case for at least 50% of the loopers here
> that i hardly ever play the same thing twice. what i play is largely
> dependent on how i am feeling at the moment. So i was just wondering
> if there is anywhere on the internet that shares any live looping
> concerts (that are ok'ed by the band)?

Indeedy-do on the looping with unpredictable jam-oriented results... 
Though 
in the beginning of my using the Time Machine I decided to do a set of 
pieces that could be recreated during performance, and was able to get 
what 
I wanted despite the potentially-chaotic element of a looping device 
coupled 
with effects.
Stephen Goodman
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