actually, i think the fripps & belews of the world would be rather disappointed by how simplistic this is.
Dave Ellis
Simple =/= bad.
Besides, this reminds more of minimalists like Steve Reich that Fripp.
deathtokoalas
in general, simple does not equal bad, but in this case it does.
there's no process in this...
ok, maybe there's a vague idea of process in this in the way the pedals are used, but it's not musical in nature and is consequently not well compared to reich.
i was reacting to the several comments that were comparing this to fripp, which likely meant his work with eno, and i do think it's a more accurate comparison than to reich. but, they were ironically less constrained with their technology at the time; they had far more flexible tools at their disposal, because they built them for what they wanted rather than picked them up, mass produced, on a shelf. the result was a far more interesting use of the technology.
don't get me wrong - i'd like to hear some guitarists pick up on that sort of thing. guitar playing has become very technically driven, and it's created a lot of boring results. there's more flexible uses to the instrument than as a blunt means to ape a lot of violin solos. i try to do a little bit of that myself, even.
but, this guy is just not getting beyond the basic level of abstraction that comes with looping phrases together.
