Loves Not Through With You Yet

Loves Not Through... started as a song with a beginning , middle and end but ended up as a loop on the crazy Zvex pedal the Lo-Fi Loop Junky. I had been re watching The Harder They Fall, a 50's film with some less than complimentary portrayals of boxing when the vaguest of lyrics sprang to mind. I worked on it over the next couple of weeks trying to match it to tunes that just wouldn't wear it. Around that time I had an opportunity to buy a Zvex lofi loop junky looper pedal. I say "opportunity" as they are prohibitively expensive but this one was reasonably priced. It's an odd beast- if you want to use it like a Boss looper you'll be hard pressed ! I believe it's analog or analog-ish utilizing a chip from old answering machines. Not surprising then there's no quantize, smart start or overdubbing. However whatever is looped into comes out like some old scratchy 78 record or a warbly cassette recording. I recorded a few demos with just circular riffs into this machine and started to match lyrics to one. The boxing analogy for resilience is a tritely obvious one but I thought i was pretty clever working a sport into a song. Pretty clever that was until I heard "When An Old Cricketer Leaves the Crease" by Roy Harper