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This is my first message to the list, so I just want to say howdy to everyone. I've really enjoyed everything I've seen so far. This is an impressively serious and talented group. I play solo guitar (a homemade Strat or an Epiphone Joe Pass) with a Digitech 2 second delay, Vortex, Rat, JamMan, and sometimes a volume or wah. I gig at rock clubs, doing short improv sets at an open mike or opening for noisy rock bands. Influences are the usual: Fripp, Frisell, Sharrock, but since I haven't played in improv/noise/avant-whatever settings, I also do a lot of songs where I play melody and solos over a loop, just cool rock and jazz tunes that work over a short vamp: Coltrane's "India," "Louie Louie," Sharrock's "The End of the Rainbow," lots of 70s Miles Davis, "Cissy Strut," McCoy Tyner's "Walk Spirit, Talk Spirit," "A Horse with No Name," some Santana, some Prince/0(+>, etc. Currently, I'm digging DJ Spooky and David Shea, and a lot of my improv involves sampling a sound or lick with the Digitech, then tweaking the delay time knob to use it as a crude theremin and building loops on the JamMan out of the mutated original sound. It seems like that's similar to some of the sample manipulations DJs do, and it's cool to do it in semi-real time to my own playing. Anyway, I want to expand the memory on my Jamster, so maybe some of you could e-mail me the best sources for the chips I need. Thanks a lot. I look foward to hearing more from this list. -- Jeff Schwartz jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu http://www.bgsu.edu/~jeffs/main.html