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Rick Walker

@rickwalkerloop

I'm a Live Audio + Video Looping Artist and inventor. I produce the world's largest annual Live Looping Festival in Santa Cruz, California where I live.

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Quite a while back I started a group at FaceBook called VINTAGE DRUM MACHINE OWNERS I just checked today and we have 21 members and only two people have ever posted. COME ON....there have to be more of you out there!!!! ift.tt/32FeNs6

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If you think Magic doesn't exist in the world, watch this 15 minute documentary on the Muscle Shoals rhythm section. Remember that Muscle Shoals was a town of 8,000 people. Then think of any small town in the United States (or anywhere in the world) th… ift.tt/3fMFzCz

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Oh my goodness gracious. We have lost a Jazz icon in our counties history. **************************R.I.P. Don McCaslin*************************** From the early 70's as a UCSC undergraduate, I would go down and watch 'Warmth' play in front of the old Cooper House. I rem…

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If you think Magic doesn't exist in the world, watch this 15 minute documentary on the Muscle Shoals rhythm section. Remember that Muscle Shoals was a town of 8,000 people. Then think of any small town in the United States (or anywhere in the world) th… ift.tt/2ZPKlt6

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One of the great war heroes of World War 2, a five-star general in the Army who served as Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. and became the 34th president of the United States of America wrote this in April , 1953 , 6 months before I was born. …

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Hey producers, Will Shanksof UA hipped recommended this to me. Watch this demo if you want to be impressed by an INCREDIBLE equalization tool. It's pretty expensive for a plugin, unless you consider what something like this would cost if it were hardw… youtube.com/watch?v=IDMrLQ…

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ahhh, damn, it's starting to get real where we live: Salvation Army Thrift Store, O’ My Sole, the downtown Pono Hawaiian Grill, Leah’s Magical Pieces, Agile Monkey, A Brighter World, Nourish, a Walgreens, a Starbucks and 99 Bottles have all gone out of … ift.tt/3fOapKS

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I get to do an improvisational duo gig with this guy on Saturday at Abbott Square from 7:00 to 9:30. WHAT A LUCKY GUY! It's free and kid friendly See youse there! youtube.com/watch?v=K2bsq7…

I get to do an improvisational duo gig with this guy on Saturday at Abbott Square from 7:00 to 9:30.  
WHAT A LUCKY GUY!

 It's free and kid friendly 
See youse there!

youtube.com/watch?v=K2bsq7…
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I've always been interested in 'preparing' drums, cymbals and percussion, not unlike how the musical movement of 'prepared' guitar works. So, here is my first in a series of simple, creative drum hacks and 'preparartions'. Please send some back.

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ooops..........posted the wrong video: Here 'tis: SILICON FINGER PROTECTOR MALLETS #1 The first in a series of Drum, Cymbal and Percussion instrument 'Preparations' and assorted Drum Hacks

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The artists have arrive from Mexico and Japan and the festival begins tomorrow at the Anno Domini Gallery (366 South 1st St., San Jose) at 7:00 pm. This is the first in person festival since lockdown.

The artists have arrive from Mexico and Japan and the festival begins tomorrow at the Anno Domini Gallery (366 South 1st St., San Jose) at 7:00 pm.
This is the first in person festival since lockdown.
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What a beautiful day, out in the hot sun; with a Tribute to the Live Loopers of Mexico with four wonderful sets from Los Hijos de Dona Loope (aka Marcos Garcia Fregoso), George Demarest, Pedeplei (aka Israel Pena) and Lizeth Ruvalcaba.

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The rain, 'playing' the ancient Timpani drum I have outside of my performance/rehearsal studio. The deepest notes are large drops coming from the eves of the studio....the rest is the pitter patter of the heavy raing that's happening. RAIN on TIMPANI minio.echowave.io/videos/w0qPrvZ…

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I just finished two and a half weeks of stimulating gigging and recording with Guadalajara, Mexico looping artists, Eliud Ernandes and Lizeth Ruvalcaba. I spend a few hours editing recording experimental recording sessions with Liz..........some great stuff to come.

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I was just hipped to this incredibly creative video/music creator by Tim Bradshaw Thompson (another amazingly inventive visual/audio artist from the South Bay). This person is really creatively quirky!I just subscribed to Imagination Rabbit (Z) imaginationrabbit.substack.com/subscribe?utm_…