Re: The Eye is as Quick as The Hand

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

I think the only people tha care about how we are
looping are loopers themselves;-)
I recently played in an ol Pub where i played good ol
acoustic covers from Neil Young,Dylan,ELP,Zeppelin
etc.using loops.Sometimes i looped my Cajon as a
backbeat,sometimes druming on the guitar or using bass
lines with an octaver and sometimes i just played and
sang without any looping.I could tell how some people
were sort of curious looking at those weird boxes
flashing i was stomping on.But between breaks and at
the end of the show,from all of the people that came
up to me,none of them comented,asked how i was doing
what i was doing or seemed interested on the
equipment,instead they raved on the good ol songs i
was doing and how cool the cajon sounded...;-)
but what made me crack up is how some dude that was
helping out in the bar said,hey next time cool
sequencer i also have one in my yamaha keyboard with
great sounds;-)and then a woman bartender said" that
was lovely but playing with other people is still
nice,dont you think?
then i thought why am i still hauling all this crap
around!
cheers
Luis




--- Dennis Moser <sinsofmachaut@gmail.com> wrote:

> Actually, I care quite a bit  HOW it's done ...it
> doesn't lessen the
> magic of the performance. In fact for me, it deepens
> the expereince
> knowing what the performers is doing to accomplish
> their feats.
> 
> I had a friend who, along with his father, were
> accomplished
> magicians. They would DELIBERATELY show how they did
> a trick. They
> made it perfectly clear to the point that I could do
> it as well ...
> but to watch them do the trick was still a delight
> because what I was
> know seeing was their mastery of the trick (this
> was, BTW, years
> before Penn and Teller began their "debunking"
> approach to magic).
> 
> The same goes for how this video was done ...
> someone says this guy is
> looping, I want to see HOW he is using the tools.
> And you can't see it
> with this video. I think the real fault, if there is
> one to be laid,
> is with WIRED for their presentation ... but I guess
> if it means that
> David will get more listeners then "it's all good."
> 
> Sure the guy is definitely talented and I'm not
> trying to take that
> away from him. I'm sorry I won't be able to make it
> in to Boston to
> night to catch him at the Paradise to see him do
> this live. But I'm
> pretty convinced now that what we saw in this video
> was not David
> doing an actual recording of that song.
> 
> Dennis
> 
> On 4/22/08, Steve Lawson <steve@steve-lawson.co.uk>
> wrote:
> > It's an 'artist's impression' of a real
> performance - I've seen David live a
> > few times, he's great, and does indeed loop in
> that way with, I think, an
> > RC-20 (though he has a violinist he sometimes
> works with who has a more
> > complex set-up IIRC).
> >
> >  I'm pretty sure that that is 'reconstructed', the
> way that his 'one take'
> > video for State Of the Union was...
> >
> >  ...all of which is a techie-geek distraction from
> his lovely songwriting.
> > Who really gives an eff how it's done? :o)
> >
> >  Steve
> >
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