Is Using A Looper "Legal" In A Power Trio?

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Is use of a Looper acceptable in a "Power Trio?"

  • Sure- why not?

    Votes: 11 52.4%

  • No Way- if you can't hold up your end of the three-legged table without a Looper, go home.

    Votes: 3 14.3%

  • It would be okay, although the faithful might sneer.

    Votes: 2 9.5%

  • No worries, either way- use it if you want.

    Votes: 5 23.8%

  • YOU are thinking of forming a POWER TRIO? Dream ON, poser!

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    21
DrewPeterson7 said:
So the Abby is no more? Fucker... What does that leave, Toad? I love Toad, personally... But, I mean, max capacity is something like 52, and even that was probably a gift from the Cambridge Fire Department, haha.
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Yep. My band played the last residency there just before it closed. It was so bad by the final weeks that all they had was PBR which they bought from a liquor store down the street because their taps had been shut off due to non-payment.

The singer in my band doesn't drink. He ordered a coke and they spun around behind the bar until finding a half-empty two-liter bottle of Market-Basket generic cola. Warm. It was sad. How can you run a bar without a soda-gun?

As for what's left... Cambridge is looking dismal. Aside from the Mid East and TT the Bear's, all you've really got (for loud bands, that is) is PA's Lounge and.... All Asia. I'd rather avoid both of those.

Church was looking good for a while when they were booking lots of touring acts on weekends. Now it seems they realize you can pay Boston bands a lot less to provide the same entertainment. I give the place another year before it starts to dive.
 
starbuck26 said:
Yep. My band played the last residency there just before it closed. It was so bad by the final weeks that all they had was PBR which they bought from a liquor store down the street because their taps had been shut off due to non-payment.

The singer in my band doesn't drink. He ordered a coke and they spun around behind the bar until finding a half-empty two-liter bottle of Market-Basket generic cola. Warm. It was sad. How can you run a bar without a soda-gun?

As for what's left... Cambridge is looking dismal. Aside from the Mid East and TT the Bear's, all you've really got (for loud bands, that is) is PA's Lounge and.... All Asia. I'd rather avoid both of those.

Church was looking good for a while when they were booking lots of touring acts on weekends. Now it seems they realize you can pay Boston bands a lot less to provide the same entertainment. I give the place another year before it starts to dive.
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Dammit. I may need to give up on life and start playing acoustic rock. :/

Anyone you know of book electric blues? I used to be a pretty serious blues player back before I discovered Satriani, and I've been kind of flirting with the idea of tryign to get my chops back up to snuff and starting to frequent blues jams and whatnot. Besides, the idea of playing blues through a Mesa Rectoverb (which actually works damned well, believe it or not) totally cracks me up. :D
 
Nothing wrong with it all...try telling Rush and Muse that they're not "real musicians". ;)
 
DrewPeterson7 said:
Dammit. I may need to give up on life and start playing acoustic rock. :/

Anyone you know of book electric blues? I used to be a pretty serious blues player back before I discovered Satriani, and I've been kind of flirting with the idea of tryign to get my chops back up to snuff and starting to frequent blues jams and whatnot. Besides, the idea of playing blues through a Mesa Rectoverb (which actually works damned well, believe it or not) totally cracks me up. :D
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I don't know nothin about jams. All I know is I used to go to a bar on Mass Ave in Boston down by the medical center... can't remember the name... for some reason wally's is sticking in my head... they have jazz jam sessions on sundays but it's overrun by berkeley kids.

there's a band called "Gypsy Cab" you should check out. They're obsessed with Lindsey Buckingham.

Outside of that, pop your head into Precinct on a Sunday night. That might be an option. My roommates all work there... the crowd is a weird irishy-roots-rocky type shit. Not my thing a'tall, but you might like it.
 
starbuck26 said:
I don't know nothin about jams. All I know is I used to go to a bar on Mass Ave in Boston down by the medical center... can't remember the name... for some reason wally's is sticking in my head... they have jazz jam sessions on sundays but it's overrun by berkeley kids.

there's a band called "Gypsy Cab" you should check out. They're obsessed with Lindsey Buckingham.

Outside of that, pop your head into Precinct on a Sunday night. That might be an option. My roommates all work there... the crowd is a weird irishy-roots-rocky type shit. Not my thing a'tall, but you might like it.
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There's, um... I think Johnny D's does a Sunday afternoon blues jam. I've been meaning to swing by and check it out, but I haven't gotten around to it yet.
 
Trey Anastasio uses one to great effect playing with Oysterhead.
 
Purge said:
Nothing wrong with it all...try telling Rush and Muse that they're not "real musicians". ;)
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This Nothing more needed to be said.
I used to be in a Rush Cover band but there were 4 of us. we needed a singer who also played the synth/keys for us but the guitarist used a Boss looper.
I guess we were a power trio plus one:D
 
If your drummer can stay locked in with the loops then he must be the greatest drummer in the world. Hell, most can't even play with the click track blaring in their headphones.
 
Roguetitan said:
I used to be in a Rush Cover band but there were 4 of us. ..
I guess we were a power trio plus one:D
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Hey, if you sung all the songs in spanish, you'd be a power quatro...:D

(I'm in rare form, tonight...)
 
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