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Re: loop device endorsement - was Santanas looping bassist
At 04:25 AM 8/27/2002, Hedewa7@aol.com wrote:
>the local goddess wrote,
> >Regarding tori looping her voice, well, her voice is getting looped on
> >a
> >BT remix of Blue Sky. so she isn't actually doing it, but he is, and if
> >Tori fans grab the BT single of her tune, then they'll hear it.
>right; but, within the context of that thread:
>the fans won't *see* it.....
I don't think that is true, actually. It happens by chance I have quite an
inside view of Tori fandom, although I think this applies outside that
example to the fans of other artists. Her fans care a lot about her music,
and really do pay attention to details. They are extremely interested in
what she does and why, and they do investigate it to learn more. Her music
means a lot to them, so they care to learn more about it, whether its on
an
emotional plane of why she wrote a song or a technical plane of how she
recorded it.
I remember once being dragged to a listening party for one of her album
pre-releases. The liner notes described her as playing not just piano, but
harpsichord, leslie, and marshall. The people there were really curious to
know what a "leslie" and a "marshall" were, and since I happened to know I
explained it for them. They were fascinated that she was playing her
harpsichord through a cranked Marshall guitar amp and running her piano
through Leslie speakers. (so was I, actually.) They were fascinated to
learn about a speaker that spun around. They listened back to the songs
that used those sounds so they could understand what it sounded like and
think about why Tori wanted that sound there. I think I later even had to
write something for some Tori fan list explaining Leslie speakers. I don't
know if any of those fans later went out and bought Marshall stacks for
their harpsichords, (I try not to pay quite that much attention to
them...)
but they were undeniably interested in it just because of Tori and it was
not initially obvious to them at all.
Don't underestimate that power.
In fact, from what I understand dt, you can expect some significant
increase in album sales yerself just for appearing on her album.....
kim
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