The looper makes a profound change to music and, as with most musical things, it can either be cool or a club to the head. They're excellent for doing three-chord slam-hammer rhythm and they're also excellent for assembling a number of disjointed bits into something a bit like musical clockwork. This is what got the thinking of The Watchmaker together.
The Watchmaker came up the other day but the thought needs to be developed more because the loop represents the clock he makes to impress his dream love as surely this will win her. It's like The Watchmaker's way of singing "Hey Baby."
The premise may seem like it's trying to steal the idea from "Hugo" which is a deliciously charming movie, very much tied to clocks and love. If you've not seen the movie, it gets five stars while also being absolutely kid-safe while still being adult-cool.
"Hugo" is a complex and beautiful story but the intention for "The Watchmaker" is much more elemental as he represents all the people who work in basements and attics and all the places where people work solo on projects, in part because they want to make something cool but still there's a kid inside who wants people to like it and usually there's someone in particular the person wants to impress a lot. That's a good story as it represents the way a lot of good things happen (i.e. someone got an idea and thought, hmm, I'm going to build that).
The trouble with loopers is that, while revolutionary, they generally suck. It's easy to get into a musical situation called 'tickety tock' which is how my ol' Dad dismissed swing bands which didn't swing. He was a massive snob for that and why not. It's music and Benny Goodman was the best, why should he listen to ... I believe Kay Kaiser was a name he really scorned but that part doesn't matter. 'Tickety tock' is bad and the modern equivalent is generic hip hop ... oh boy, another one and look at how she tries to kick her little feet. She must be a dancer, I guess.
It could be worse. She could be doing Eagles covers. Sonya Jevette is the only one I ever heard cover an Eagles song in a way which was creditable as a musician.
General looper update: the looper has been wobbling for some while. The long-time to warm up seems most likely attributable to a failing power supply. It sucks to buy another one but what doesn't suck is that one can buy another. If the power supply were internal, an expensive device is junk when it fails and power supplies almost always fail first.
There are other functional problems with it but the components which do work are continuing to work when it's warmed-up enough to do them.
The biggest problem for performance remains my arms as there's not a good explanation for the trigger to make them go numb. I even removed the arm rests from the chair and that did make a difference so I'm positive the situation is ergonomic but what about the situation is that way is extremely difficult to isolate.
The Watchmaker came up the other day but the thought needs to be developed more because the loop represents the clock he makes to impress his dream love as surely this will win her. It's like The Watchmaker's way of singing "Hey Baby."
The premise may seem like it's trying to steal the idea from "Hugo" which is a deliciously charming movie, very much tied to clocks and love. If you've not seen the movie, it gets five stars while also being absolutely kid-safe while still being adult-cool.
"Hugo" is a complex and beautiful story but the intention for "The Watchmaker" is much more elemental as he represents all the people who work in basements and attics and all the places where people work solo on projects, in part because they want to make something cool but still there's a kid inside who wants people to like it and usually there's someone in particular the person wants to impress a lot. That's a good story as it represents the way a lot of good things happen (i.e. someone got an idea and thought, hmm, I'm going to build that).
The trouble with loopers is that, while revolutionary, they generally suck. It's easy to get into a musical situation called 'tickety tock' which is how my ol' Dad dismissed swing bands which didn't swing. He was a massive snob for that and why not. It's music and Benny Goodman was the best, why should he listen to ... I believe Kay Kaiser was a name he really scorned but that part doesn't matter. 'Tickety tock' is bad and the modern equivalent is generic hip hop ... oh boy, another one and look at how she tries to kick her little feet. She must be a dancer, I guess.
It could be worse. She could be doing Eagles covers. Sonya Jevette is the only one I ever heard cover an Eagles song in a way which was creditable as a musician.
General looper update: the looper has been wobbling for some while. The long-time to warm up seems most likely attributable to a failing power supply. It sucks to buy another one but what doesn't suck is that one can buy another. If the power supply were internal, an expensive device is junk when it fails and power supplies almost always fail first.
There are other functional problems with it but the components which do work are continuing to work when it's warmed-up enough to do them.
The biggest problem for performance remains my arms as there's not a good explanation for the trigger to make them go numb. I even removed the arm rests from the chair and that did make a difference so I'm positive the situation is ergonomic but what about the situation is that way is extremely difficult to isolate.
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