Re: Keller Williams ( Re: EWI looping by Jeff Kashiwa on youtube)

["Travis Hartnett" <travishartnett@gmail.com>]

It's not terribly interesting from a looping perspective at this point in time, when looping technology has been widely available for more than a decade.  He records a snippet, he overdubs a few things, he sings.  it's easy to imagine all of his tunes played the same way with a four piece band who could switch off on instruments.  Contrast that with Andre LaFosse, who produces music which could not exist in realtime without significant skill with a looping device and an uncommon approach to the guitar.

Folks who aren't used to the concept of looping are taken the newness of Keller's thing (to their ears) but once you get past the fact that he's using some box to record his playing, then you just focus on his actual music, which I personally found to be standard singer-songwriter fare, based on the one live CD of his that I bought, which is where I expected to find the big display of looping that I'd heard about for several years.  He's unlikely to be raved about on a guitar or bass discussion list either, which isn't a problem...unless the focus of the list itself is guitar or bass playing, in which case that aspect receives primary consideration in most cases.

More power to Keller for finding a supportive audience for what he loves to do, but I doubt he expects people to be blown away by the looping aspect of his music either--it's all just means to an end.

TravisH

On 11/26/06, David Gans <david@trufun.com> wrote:

>>he is hardly  playing the loopers at all - only traditional
>>instruments that he records on loopers.

Huh?  Is that a problem?



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