Re: ? re: really "weird" solo loopers...

["L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>]

Hey great story too Randolf! dont get me wrong, i
still havent bee egged or thrown out and have always
gotten paid;-)
if 100 people walk out but one says something positive
then consider yourself a winner!
cheers
Luis

--- Randolf Arriola <randolf@embryosongs.com> wrote:

> Luis,
> That's an interesting account of your experience.
> I'd like to share my
> story. Besides having my own creative music group
> "the embryo" I sing and
> play guitar solo 3 evenings a week at the transit
> bar at the local airport
> here. Over the past 2 years I began incorporating
> looping devices into my
> playing. At first it was a way to expand my solo
> guitar format by creating
> loops with chord progressions and later on adding
> guitar soundboard slaps
> which was ok with familiar covers. The story goes
> really when some drunks
> were asking for Hotel California and then asked
> midsong where's the guitar
> solo man?!" and at the end of of it will flap their
> hands like sea lions
> only missing them with one of them hollering "ya ya,
> that was so so but
> where was the rhythm guitar man!?" I smiled but felt
> so defeated. Then I
> discovered the DL4! Those same folks were rolling on
> the floor went they
> came by and are now one of my regulars. Heh :)
> 
> Anyway later on along the way after much ongoing
> trial and embarrasing
> (hopefully forgettable) on the job errors I expanded
> my cover improvs into
> loopy soundcapey territories just to see how I could
> go with this and to see
> how the audience and the management's staff would
> react. I usually had to
> make a visual scan of the place and decide if it'll
> work beforehand. My
> confidence was built upon expressed accepatance and
> encouragement from the
> many lovely transit passengers I met along the way.
> It's occured to me that
> most bar managers will only approve what the patrons
> do. Thankfully things
> have worked in my favour so far . Hope this has been
> of interest. Tanx for
> reading and sharing everyone! :)
> 
> Oh ya btw I use the following for my transit bar
> gig. Do recommend me other
> interesting devices to expand my sounds ya.
> 
> Randolf Arriola uses;
> 1. Godin Steel Duet/ Steel SA
> 2. CS3 Compressor (modded)
> 3. Yamaha Magicstomp
> 4. Boss DD20
> 5. Line6 DL4
> 6. Proel Expression pedal for DL4
> 
> Randolf Arriola (aka the embryo)
> http://www.soundclick.com/bands/5/theembryo.htm
> http://www.myspace.com/the_embryo
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "L.A. Angulo" <labaloops@yahoo.com>
> To: <artists@hazardfactor.com>;
> <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2006 7:19 AM
> Subject: RE: ? re: really "weird" solo loopers...
> 
> 
> > hey Dave,i had a familiar experience:
> > i played at an irish pub where i did a loop show.
> and
> > the result was odd; i saw a lot of men walking out
> and
> > after the show some older women came to me and
> told me
> > how they enjoyed the show.The bar owners wife
> after
> > this women gave me a compliment in front of her
> said
> > "nice i enjoyed it too,but i dont think this was
> the
> > right place for it"
> > A month later her husband the bar owner who had
> just
> > gotten back from vacation called me and ask me if
> i
> > could fill in for a band that didnt show up and
> said
> > "u can do whatever u want just dont do that weird
> > stuff u did last time;-)"
> > Another one was in Italy where i played in a huge
> > disco for a hand full of people.I could tell the
> owner
> > and the sound crew found it perhaps interesting
> but
> > were a bit puzzled because once again it wasnt the
> > place for it.Afterwards i thought, hey i could
> have
> > looped just as good but in a different way,thats
> the
> > beauty of improvising alone,perhaps integrating
> more
> > triphop or downbeat grooves which people are
> familiar
> > with and which i also love,but i was so into what
> i
> > personally wanted to show or do that night that i
> > didnt think of anything else...
> > One thing i do now days is to relax,take a deep
> > breath,observe the whole picture before the show
> and
> > try to get a feeling of the place,audience and
> > atmosphere,telling myself that even if it goes
> wrong
> > it will be another step to something.i dont plan a
> set
> > list either,just make notes of the endless looping
> > ideas to throw in.Somehow this has helped my
> > confidence not to get deteriorated by such
> experiences
> > many of us go through...
> > or ive matured;-)
> > Luis
> >
> >
> > --- hazard factor <artists@hazardfactor.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > For me too, it means 'avante-garde' or
> > > 'experimental', or 'difficult
> > > listening' if you had never been exposed to such
> a
> > > thing. So, if one does
> > > this, where do you play, and how often? Do you
> have
> > > to 'tame' it down for
> > > some gigs? And did any one ever get fired from a
> gig
> > > because it was too odd?
> > >
> > >
> > > Dave Eichenberger
> > > http://www.hazardfactor.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > > But weird....really wierd solo looping....I'd
> have
> > > to say it
> > > > mostly falls into experimental and avant-garde
> to
> > > me...when
> > > > it's weird, it generate a distrinct feeling
> for
> > > me....but
> > > > that is probably just my own idiosyncrasity.
> > > >
> > > > Kris
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> > www.myspace.com/luisangulocom
> >
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