Re: Intro and question

["Kevin Cheli-Colando" <billowhead@gmail.com>]

On Dec 14, 2007 9:09 AM, Per Boysen <perboysen@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,

Maybe he doesn't want to loop his playing but rather to play his
looping?

(What I'm hinting at here is the fact that a looping device is not
only "recorder" but a kind of instrument in its own right)

Oh sure, I know that, it was more a turn of phrase than a definition of style or intent.  What I meant is only that Richard Thompson  is, as his ex-wife said, "Spoon-bendingly talented" without anything other than a guitar and I can't really think how he would incorporate looping tech to his advantage. 

I am fully in the 'looper as instrument camp' myself. 

Kevin

On 14 dec 2007, at 17.56, Kevin Cheli-Colando wrote:

>  I don't think I've ever heard of Richard Thompson looping his
> playing (why would he need to when he's capable of so much without
> the tech?).  I could be wrong though.
>
> Pierre Bensusan is definitely a looping finger style guitarist well
> worth checking out.
>
> Kevin
>
>
> Lurkers Delight syndrome has served me and I'm sure many others
> very well. Welcome! Oddly, I haven't heard all that many high
> profile fingerstyle guitarists utilize looping technology. A couple
> that come to mind are Richard Thompson (he uses looping quite a bit
> live, or at least has in the past – you might be able to find some
> stuff on youtube),
>