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I dunno Kim--I'm just back from a bar where a bunch of kids in the early twenties were digging the shit out of Lynyrd Skynyrd and Steve Miller covers, singing along with every word in an un-ironic manner. Classic Rock is amazingly popular among Da Kidz in Seattle. When I first moved here a couple of years ago I was, amazed to hear the teenager behind the counter at the bagel shop get all excited and start singing along with some 70's-era Clapton. Which isn't to say that newer stuff isn't popular here, but there isn't a reflexive rejection of the music of their parents. And I've seen plenty of young guitarists who take inspiration from the Santana/Clapton/Allman/Vaughn school of playing. That said, I still don't think Santana really sells guitars. Everyone who cares about the "Carlos" tone knows that he uses Santana model PRS's, which cost two fortunes, and I can't say I've every seen someone other than Carlos use one on stage, or even in a magazine. Those are dentist guitars. The pornographic shots of curly maple tops is the bread-and-butter of the PRS advertising thrust. Plus, they are really good guitars. TH > > Nobody new is being inspired to go become a > musician by that stuff. In fact, I'm only a few years older than you, >and I > don't remember anybody being interested in that stuff in the 80's or 90's > either. It was more like Run DMC vs Metallica vs Depeche Mode in my 80's > world. > > If we are interested in how looping can grow beyond a weird little niche, > it has to become a part of popular music culture today. Not fossilized > artifacts from 20 or 30 years ago. That means there must be good music >that > a lot of people like listening to in the present, and which happens to be > based on looping. Good, popular music will inspire people. Bad or strange > music will not.