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RE: David Torn,Terry Bozzio,Tony Levin,Pat Mastelotto NAMM 2010



I'm with Tony Levin on this one. Look for a space to put somethng meaningful in.

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> Date: Fri, 29 Jan 2010 16:28:36 +0100
> Subject: Re: David Torn,Terry Bozzio,Tony Levin,Pat Mastelotto NAMM 2010
> From: perboysen@gmail.com
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
>
> On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 4:00 PM,
> > chris@christojota.de wrote:
> >>
> >> First impression: Lots of noise and thousand notes per minute, few soul!
>
> andy butler <akbutler@tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> > yep, I was disappointed by the "guitar god" hierarchical structure,
> > and lack of interplay.
>
> Can't deny that. But obviously it was a big stage with loud PA and
> on-stage monitoring - anyone that has tried that knows how hard it is
> to get the interplay flow running freely.... I think they did well
> under the circumstances. Torn was sometimes clearly not able to hear
> the other guys but still managed to make some interesting noise and
> the same can be said about Bozzio. When monitoring is down you just
> have to stick with something that minimizes the risk for musical
> clashes ;-)) Tony Levin chose the other alternative in such a
> difficult situation: not playing until you get a good view of what's
> going on and then start adding something that makes sense. In a way
> the video was a nice lecture.
>
> > The first lesson on any instrument should be how to create silence.
>
> I'm mastering that right now by keeping my 1929 tenor sax in a french
> case at the closet. On the STick I'm not that good... keep pounding
> "metal riffs + thumping bass" all over, but I guess that's just a
> childish phase that will soon leave room for something more silent.
> (can certain music be more silent than other music? would that be
> better?)
>
> Greetings from Sweden
>
> Per Boysen
> www.boysen.se
> www.perboysen.com
>


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