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Re: Loops

"Joshua M. Neds-Fox" <jnedsfox at moody_edu> sez:
>> i much enjoyed his make-it-up-as-you-go-along percussion loops - sure beats 
>> DAT tape! very warm and organic sounding, as long as you don't mind the songs 
>> taking a little while to rev up.
>
>You know, the best concert I've ever been to was a Phil Keaggy concert.  I
>would have never thought it-- I mean, Christian rock just so seldom
>*rawks*, but Phil was just this little rockin' elf with a squeaky voice and
>he rawked!  

Phil Keaggy RAWKS.  I agree totally.   IIRC, somewhere I've got a 3 LP album
of Phil Keaggy with the 2nd Chapter Of Acts RAWKIN' the house somewhere out
west.   Man, now I need to dig that up.	

>But the point is, he had this old piece of equipment that set
>up loops similar (I think) to what you're suggesting-- except that it could
>loop *over* previous loops.  He would keep us entertained with a slowly
>building backing track, looping in his bass, and a fill, and a chord
>progression, and a rhythm (beating on his guitar, same as ric).  On a
>couple of songs, he even held his guitar up to his lips and sang into the
>strings, which picked up his voice fairly accurately and looped them onto
>the track for his own backing vocals.  Did I mention he was performing
>solo?  With just an acoustic guitar?

Sounds like a similar piece of equipment to what Ric was using.  He just kept
adding layers and layers of sound.   It's really really cool.

>Anyway, the appeal of this is similar to the appeal of any slow-build song.
>I think it's the principal that made NIN's "Closer" such a monster hit--
>measure by measure the sound gets more complex until you can't stand how
>cool it is.  

Or like 'The Revealing Science Of God' by Yes.

>And Phil is a *master*.  He even worked in a bass slide by
>actually looping himself tuning his low E down about 3 steps.  It was pure
>genius, and it just sounded so great.

This reminds me of a tangential guitar genius.   Anyone remember when Brian
May used to do the 'Brighton Rock' guitar solo with the triple delay, and he'd
just scale around playing harmonies with himself?   That's cool, too.  Not
very related, but cool nonetheless.

>ps - I think Phil Keaggy is quoted on one of Ric's postcards as praising
>Ric's guitar work.

It's in the little promo card with all the Michael Wilson photos.
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