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Re: loop device endorsement - was Santanas looping bassist



I agree Kim
korn did far more for seven strings than vai

as for PRS I think the creed guy has been there best thing in the last few
years [apart from there reputation]

I firmly believe that the mass market is 'ignorant' or uneducated in what 
is
available and what is possible ...
ok, so most [possible all] people on this list are exempt from the above
statement, but most people here are 'experimental' musicians with an
interest in gear

a lot of people rant, I have found myself at gigs explaining compression,
modulation, looping etc etc etc

a lot of people just don't know what these things are !!!!

so I still think and endorser would help generate exposure and interest

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com>
To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com>
Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:08 PM
Subject: Re: loop device endorsement - was Santanas looping bassist


> i hate it when people want to argue the details of an example instead of
> the concept being illustrated, but anyway...
>
> At 12:32 PM 8/23/2002, Luigi Meloni wrote:
> >Great analisys, Kim...
> >Only a thing... Many seven string guitar players learned 'bout the
existence
> >of seven stringers because of the ads featuring Steve Vai in the mid to
late
> >eighties...
>
> probably including the guys in Korn.
>
> >And Steve Vai is still reputed more influential than the various
> >Korn and clones...
>
> you're fooling yourself. Steve Vai stopped being relevant or influential
15
> years ago, and even then he was only interesting to guitar nerds. Sure, 
>he
> has a core group of fans who care about what he does, but nobody new is
> entering the picture. Hardly anybody under the age of 30 would even know
> who he is, and he's not inspiring people to go learn to play guitar
> anymore. He might have been the one who got a few people interested in
> playing seven string guitar a long time ago, but right now, Korn is huge
> and they do inspire people to go buy and learn to play seven string 
>guitar
> today. A lot more people than Steve Vai ever reached. That was my point.
>
> >Just think about P.R.S. guitars...
> >In all the eighties and the nineties I've never seen as much photos
> >featuring those guitars around... God... the Santana SE ads have some
> >Nu-metal jerk on them, not Santana.
>
> well duh. Santana is great, but he's old news. Everybody who was going to
> be influenced by Santana already got influenced 25 years ago. The "nu
metal
> jerk" probably reaches far more people today than Santana has in years.
>
> kim
>
>
>
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