I've kinda given up on whoring out live recordings beyond demos of gear, but thought I'd throw this one up on the board:
Otis Taylor is by far my favorite bluesman. Well, RL Burnside is up there too, but the gap between them an the rest of the field is substantial. Occasionally I read comments from those who disagree with something I've said on a post trying to back-handedly rip on looping and copying Son of Dave (which is generally way OT).
I don't think a looper has anything to do with playing harmonica or makes you more modern than any other effect, and I rip off 2-3x more RL and Otis than SOD, LOL. In fact, out of two hours of solo tunes, I have never played more than two SOD tunes (Hellhound, and his cover of I Wish You Would...I tried two other tunes, but ended up scraping them).
This was a pretty small venue and you can hear the clicks from the POD HD500. I hate that! That's half the reason I ditched looping via the M13...you could hear the click in every loop.
I try to approach the solo thing more like playing separate instruments (or as a band) than anything else. I think SOD, by contrast, tends to add rhythm elements to solo harmonica pieces...many of which he could play sans looper. Superchucker77 puts a lot of effort into vocal percussion and creating the illusion of multiple instruments playing at once.
The looper I have can be controlled with a volume pedal. I am going to start trying that out in an effort to create more dynamics. In hindsight, I should have bought a rack looper and ran totally separate channels for different instrument sounds.
