FAVORITE LIVE LOOPERS: a new list

["Rick Walker" <looppool@cruzio.com>]

I realized that from all the responses to the thread I started about
famous live loopers that it's pretty obvious that we should start a
new list of our favorite live loopers.

I didn't say it in my initial posting, but the first list got started 
merely
as a selling point to journalists that we are trying to get interested
in live looping.

Obviously, someone like David Torn, who has used live looping integrally 
in 
his music
for years and years is on a different level, aethetically, with his 
looping 
than say
some one like Eddie Vedder who used some live looping in his concert in 
Santa Cruz
last week,  but the fact is that millions and millions of people know 
Eddie 
Vedder,
(just as tens of thousands know about  David Torn and thousands know about 
Zoe Keating)  so this is
something that I can use when I am trying to spread the gospel of this 
thing 
we love
to music journalists, radio DJs and television producers.

Spiritually, that means that this list is going to be necessarily 
superficial and unsatisfying to
lots of people on this list. I completely know that.
Oddly enough,  the intent is not a popularity list,  just a hook the 
journalists list so they can start
paying attention to the people on the next list I"m going to suggest that 
we 
start.

Now, let's get down to the real nitty gritty.

WHO ARE OUR FAVORITE LOOPERS?   OUR MOST INFLUENTIAL LOOPERS?
(mass fame has no bearing on this list)

please resubmit anyone mentioned before for this one.