Re: Who uses "looping" in their promo material?

["Krispen Hartung" <khartung@cableone.net>]

With a few exceptions maybe, like Phish and the Dead (and other copy 
cats)...those guys did total free and spontaneous improv on 
stage...albeit, 
integrated or sandwiched in between their normal songs.  Phish was always 
a 
great inspiration for me. And I love the Dead's Infrared Roses. I always 
thought if I had to become a pop musician, that this was the approach I 
would have to take, otherwise I would end up slitting my wrists after two 
months into the tour. The idea of playing the same set of songs set after 
set makes me nauseous, and this was the primary source of me disbanding 
groups I have started in the past, because show after show, I started 
feeling like a cover musician of my own material.  I don' know how a lot 
of 
these pop artists do it, night after night. I would most certainly turn to 
drugs in that situation. :)   And now I don't pre-write anything for my 
performances.  Everything is spontaneous. I think I tried to do a cover of 
one of my looping tunes once, based on an audience request, and I botched 
it. I couldn't even remember my parts enough to loop it right. Heh heh.  
I'm 
a tabula ras sort of performance guy now. I get off on it. I thrive on it.

Kris

----- Original Message ----- 

> And, by the way, it is my perception that the loopers who enter the
> mainstream consciousness in any way are never free improvisors - the
> "public" (gosh I'm using a lot of quoted words today) has never seemed to
> care much for that form approach. Not surprising, really.