Re: HOW MANY LOOPS DO YOU USE SIMLUTANEOUSLY?

[Matt Stevens <mattstevensguitar@btinternet.com>]

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...
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> PS: Anyone got a torrent for Altares Auto Tune??
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