Re: FAVORITE LIVE LOOPERS: a new list

[Teddy Kumpel <teddybut@mac.com>]

All ego aside... I am my own favorite looper.
I guess Imogen is a close second.

Teddy Kumpel and Mister Shifty

On Apr 23, 2008, at 7:44 PM, Rick Walker wrote:

> 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.

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