Re: Keller Williams / jam bands/ rc50

["aaron leese" <aaronleese@hotmail.com>]

Yeah, the jam band scene is Kellers bread and butter ..... I first saw him 
play at a jam band festival a number of years back.  It was the first time 
I 
saw anyone loop .... actually he looped a good bit more back then.

Keller, on the other hand, credits Victor Wooten as the first person he 
saw 
loop.

Speaking of which, I saw Bela fleck this past year.  Every member of that 
group (minus the saxophonist) has a solo performance for every show.  
Victors was a long looped piece on the RC50.  He managed to play all the 
parts to a Bela fleck song himself, then just float off into a bunch of 
fun 
looped jams.  VW is amazing man.

Anyway ... your right, the jam band scene has taken to looping pretty 
heavily now.  There are a number of jam bands that use loop pedals.





>From: Richard Sales <richard@glasswing.com>
>Reply-To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>Subject: Re: Keller Williams / jam bands/ rc50
>Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2006 09:48:14 -0800
>
>Well... I found Keller interesting because he draws a decent crowd.  
>What's 
>about this jam band thing?  Is HE a jam band?  Do any of you besides 
>David 
>(Gans) pursue this avenue? Seems like fertile ground for loopers.
>
>I've finally gotten pretty deep into the RC50 and am already deeply 
>lusting 
>for a Looperlative.  The inability to switch between multi mode (loops 
>playing simultaneously - like layering) and single (loops playing linear 
>- 
>one after the other) within one set of loops is kind of frustrating.  I'd 
>like one loop to be the guide track that plays under all the other 
>loops... 
>but not have all the other loops layer on top of each other.  (I wonder 
>if 
>you can do that with the Looperlative?)
>OR, in the RC 50,  if you could replace the dorky preset guide tracks 
>would 
>be sweet.   Haven't found that in any documentation.  Seems possible, 
>though.
>
>The limitation of three loops is a bomb - especially for a non layering 
>looper!  And the well known RC50 glitch is a pain in the butt sometimes.  
>But it sounds good enough.  And I am definitely now fully addicted to 
>looping!
>
>Haven't tried looping in the (nonMIDI) band setting yet because I think 
>we 
>might need in ear monitors to hear the click track and stay in sync.  
>Might 
>experiment with it when all the members are together again, though.
>
>Hayley's record will be out in March and that's going very very well.  
>We're remixing, recorded new songs and new drums on some of the old 
>songs.  
>Crazy because the original was - I think - perfect, but the record 
>company 
>wanted the new songs and Hayley wanted a different drum sound on some of 
>the songs - less pop, more 'live' feeling.
>
>Every day is a new measure!
>
>richard sales
>glassWing farm and studio
>vancouver island, b.c.
>800.545.6846
>250.752.4816
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>On 26-Nov-06, at 1:29 PM, David Gans wrote:
>
>>At 12:44 PM -0800 11/26/06, Travis Hartnett wrote:
>>
>>>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.
>>
>>Yeah, I understand that.  He's not pushing the many limits, for sure.
>>
>>
>>--
>>
>>David Gans - david@trufun.com or david@gdhour.com
>>Truth and Fun, Inc., 484 Lake Park Ave. #102, Oakland CA 94610-2730
>>Blog:  http://logblog.gdhour.com
>>Web site: http://www.dgans.com
>>
>

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