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At 10:44 PM 8/23/2002, Luigi Meloni wrote: >Kim, what I meant was that you don't call a guitar SANTANA SE and then >take >someone else to advertise it... >It seems to be to be a nonsense. sorry if it seems that way, but reality is that Creed is huge today and Santana is not. One hit a three years ago after a 20 year drought is nothing compared to Creed today. Kids are playing guitar again because of Creed and other bands like them on the charts, not because of Santana. (and again, you are going off on examples and ignoring the subject which is annoying, this is the last I'm replying to this idiotic tangent.) That's the whole point here. Big figures in pop culture are what moves things. If we are interested in what will make looping more than an odd niche, that's what it takes. A big shift in popular music culture that somehow includes looping. Fringe artists and a few guys from decades ago don't do it. >For the other part, Korn are almost dead (commercially speaking) from the >last 'official remix album' (three or four years ago??), and I don't think >that Frank Zappa or Chick Corea are to be considered old guitar >nerds...but >that is only my opinion... What? Look up some facts before saying things that are wrong. Korn's latest album is currently number 34 on the Billboard album charts after 10 weeks, whether you like it or not. No Santana, no Bowie, no Fripp, etc. However, the really big thing right now is not Korn, but Eminem. if you look at the numbers, he's a bigger deal in pop culture than Nirvana ever was. If Eminem were a looper I would be a happy guy. Zappa and Corea? what relevance do they have to this topic? Yeah sure, they were great, but the 70's ended. get over it and try to catch up. For sure nobody is going into stores buying anything because of Chick Corea, aside from L. Ron Hubbard books. If Corea bought two echoplexes tomorrow, I would be happy that we sold two more echoplexes. But I wouldn't expect anything more to come of it than that. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com