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Re: HOW MANY LOOPS DO YOU USE SIMLUTANEOUSLY?
Blimey
Things are getting interesting here!
MS
www.mattstevensguitar.com
On 30 Mar 2008, at 20:10, mark francombe wrote:
> ... Kris,
> I really found your post about mastering the guitar your ability,
> skills and superior knowledge, very po-faced and rather disgusting
> and surprising coming from you! I do acknowledge that you have some
> quite considerable skill in some kind of Jazz style guitar and you
> are someone with real devotion to the experimental side of things
> that I applaud!
> But really... this was self congratulatory and condescending.
>
> You whined:
> Albeit, for artists who have not mastered their instruments, who are
> intermediate players, and are not comfortable playing solo or
> looping with
> just one accompanying loop, creating a wall of sound with loops,
> based on
> more basic and easily executable parts, is an relatively easy way
> for them
> to sound "better" or more accomplished than they really are. I know
> this
> will likely irritate or offend some beginner loopers, but it's the
> fact of
> the matter, and something looping technology has allowed.
>
> I was irritated and offended by that, and Ive been playing for 38
> years, played over a thousand gigs, and was on this list before you
> even had a delay pedal... (sic)
>
> What IS it with people that they have to go on and on about skill,
> and talent and ability... Did PUNK mean NOTHING to you guys...??? We
> īre all getting on a bit on this list now, and NOW comes the danger
> that with wives and kids and mortgages, we sit back and pull out
> all those old King Crimson albums, going "nothing like the old
> stuff is there..."
>
> Now Im not saying that letting a loop build and build till the
> ubiquitous wall of noise is really terribly interesting, no no, I
> keep MY loops very thin, prefering subs undoīs and inserts to
> overdubs, but blimey... I never thought LD would get so Muso!!! I
> hear alot of talk about REALLY FUCKING expensive bits of kit, and
> frankly wonder how some of you afford to keep changing it ,
> upgrading it and buying the latest thing... I know I canīt
> (although my modular synth is a bit of a money pit - dont tell the
> wife) and I despair... well... this is rambling now... Ive gone off
> the point a bit... not only a bad guitarist, but a bad writer...
> sorry...
>
> I don't mean to have a go specifically at you Kris, i respect alot
> of what you have done, but please stop the... "Oh the Youngsters
> have a lot to learn" talk... Its the non musician youngsters that
> will bring the next breakthrough in music, and we will be too old
> and miserable to notice...
>
>
> Mark...
>
>
> PS: Anyone got a torrent for Altares Auto Tune??
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