Looping Setups Old and New and a Couple of New Loop Jams
I decided in the last couple of days to buy some new gear for looping. The main idea with this gear is to sync everything to everything: loopers to each other, loopers to drum machines, drum machines to sequencers–you name it, I want it synced…
Playing the Regionals for the Inc. Magazine Battle of the Corporate Bands
I was contacted earlier this year by Mike Corso, who like me works at Gartner, Inc. to ask me if I’d like to play with a (mostly) Gartner employee band in the Inc. Magazine Battle of the Corporate Bands. Mike, who is a frontman in…
Video of the Day 20 May 2015: Hermine Deurloo, Zanzibar
Big Shimmering Textures: Comin’ Home Baby Looped Live
I recorded this performance of “Comin’ Home Baby” live, using Lee Oskar natural minor harps in G and F, an Audix Fireball mic, a Digitech RP500 running my patch set, a Digitech JamMan Stereo looper, a Peavey KB2 keyboard amp, and a Zoom H4 to…
Video of the Day 7 May 2015: Carlos del Junco with Rick Fines
Video of the day 10 April 2015: Sleeping through a revolution
Sleeping Through a Revolution – Jonathan Taplin from USC Annenberg Innovation Lab on Vimeo.
Video of the Day 1 April 2015: Lowlands Unplugged
Video of the Day 16 March 2015: Boris Plotnikov’s rig at work with Michail Bashakov
Going Out to Jam with the Zoom G3
I’m traveling to London tonight, and tomorrow (Sunday March 15) I plan to sit in at the Sunday afternoon jam at Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues. I’m taking a kit that includes 18 diatonic harmonicas–most of the standard Richter tunings in keys from low F…
4 Years After: Mississippi Queen Redux
I recorded myself performing Mountain’s “Mississippi Queen” about four years ago, and I happened to record it again last week while I was running through my solo repertoire. This performance is backed by the same recorded arrangement I used four years ago, so it’s easy…
