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Kim- Either we'll think of something, or you already have... Tom At 05:24 PM 2/5/98 -0600, you wrote: >At 03:34 PM 2/5/98 -0600, Tom Spaulding wrote: >>Virtually no one that works here (Gibson)has heard of you, or Fripp, or >DJ >>Spooky, or any non-mainstream (whatever that means) artist, based on my >>informal poll. That is not to say that we have ignorant, uninformed >>dullards walking around here, merely that their realm of experience lays >>comfortably upon the bed of the familiar names and faces we all know and >>love. What Artist Relations person would walk into a Marketing meeting >with >>a Polytown CD and actually convince the group that this was the future >and >>that Slash and Ace and Joe and Jimmy and B.B were passe, or at least only >>part of the picture? It does not happen. >> >> I am currently creating a "Looping Manifesto" to attempt to describe >what >>possibilities are out there for Oberheim/Gibson. This is a new world, one >>that many will be certain is flat or at best temporary. It is now my >>feeling that if we do not create a market for Looping, it will remain a >>cultural, fringe anomaly. Eventually the visionaries will give up, sell >off >>their ideas or have them revert back to them undeveloped. > >Hey Tom, > >just tell them that Looping is the perfect way to play all the parts in >"Sweet Home Alabama" all by yourself. No need to share the stage with some >other ego-mad guitar player. It'll be all you! > >You also might want to remind them that the kids today aren't listening to >guitar music much anymore, and Gibson's gonna have to think of something >eventually! :-) > >kim >________________________________________________________ >Kim Flint 408-752-9284 >Mpact System Engineering kflint@chromatic.com >Chromatic Research http://www.chromatic.com > > > >