El Ten Eleven
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Pedals can be a source of inspiration. But can they be the catalyst to start a band? The argument could be made that without a looper bassist Kristian Dunn and drummer Tim Fogarty would\\u2019ve never taken flight as El Ten Eleven. (The band is named after the Lockheed L-1011 TriStar airplane.)
\\u201cI knew I wanted to start a band\\u2014in my mind it was probably going to sound like El Ten Eleven\\u2014but I didn\\u2019t know exactly how I\\u2019d do it. I got Tim [Fogarty] to play drums and I thought I\\u2019d get a third person for keyboards,\\u201d recalls Dunn.
Fogarty wondered if Dunn had ever heard of a looper pedal. He hadn\\u2019t, so Dunn borrowed one from a friend and brought it to band practice. \\u201cWe tried it, and right out of the gate our eyes lit up and we thought out loud, \\u2018Oh my god! Could we just do this with the two of us?!\\u2019\\u201d
Since 2002, the live-looping masterminds have taking to the skies performing their organic, net-free, high-wire act. (Even Fogarty loops electronic drum parts through Dunn\\u2019s Boomerang that runs into a Gallien-Krueger MB Fusion 800 and a GK 115 RBH cabinet that sits near Fogarty.) And to celebrate two decades of their clever, playfully poetic, post-rock instrumentals, they\\u2019ll release their ninth album, New Year\\u2019s Eve, on March 4, 2022 via Joyful Noise.
Before El Ten Eleven\\u2019s headlining show at Nashville\\u2019s Exit/In on January 29, juggling, tap-dancing, bass-playing Dunn gave PG\\u2019s Chris Kies 30-plus minutes to detail his cockpit. He explains how a late-night Genesis video influenced his doubleneck duality, illuminates why he always carries a marker, and then unlocks some expressive cheat codes with his pedalboard and signal chain.
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