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Intro/JamMan memory



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