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Originally Posted by Greener  The post above is a fair burn by any measure. +1.
That being said, I hate over dubs, I hate people even writing there songs before they play them. I play in an improv band that cuts everything from the back of the mind right into the recorder... Given costs and whatnot so far all we have been able to do is direct to digital... But one day there will be a DTD project, straight through analogue all the way onto a record... That just screams chops. All other music is pre-fab.
How's that for hardline? :P |
Sounds good to me
!
I used to do a strictly improv ambient electronica echo loop act (which I named Frippenstein in tribute to Bob Fripp and his
far more sublime
Frippertronics guitar and tape-echo based solo act).
After playing a lot of coffee house and small club dates, inviting friends up to improvise along with me, we put together an all-improv act around my rig that incorporated violin, lap steel and 6 string electric guitars, percussion and woodwinds (there was a lot of instrument hopping)... and it was both really fun and occasionally terrifying. (The worst thing, though, was the
set up... my rig -- before the advent of echo-looper-in-a-box solutions -- was
nasty... there were over 90 cables, including power cords, and only a small part of that could be left connected.)
Anyhow, I'm all about improv. (I have a crummy memory and I can
decipher notation, given enough time, but I'm a million miles and several lifetimes away from sight-reading.)
(The morbidly curious can get a taste of Frippenstein in collaboration with another early 90s echo-loop act, Michael Rothmeyer,
here.)
PS... with regard to the
burn aspect of my previous post: I toned down the last bit a little after you posted. I really don't want to make Careyn feel bad. He reminds me of
me when I was young and similarly manifesto-prone.
