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Re: EDP sticker brainstorming
makes sense, thank you!
>Well, I think something like, "I'm Looping with the ECHOPLEX" with a
>Gibson logo would suggest "Delay" music due to the fact that
>everyone who speaks English knows the word "echo" means a delayed
>repetition of sound. Good name. It kind of already says what it
>does. Add the word loop in there and if what you're doing is
>obviously repeating to some degree, or doing anything that a non
>looper equipped instrumentalist couldn't do, it should spark some
>interest.
>
>Mark Sottilaro
>
>On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 05:17 PM, Matthias Grob wrote:
>
>>seems to be a good idea, thank you!
>>but doesnt it take another sticker to start with? One that sais
>>something like:
>>"I compose live with looping"
>>
>>How many of the musicians that go to the Santana concert know that
>>what happens in the bass solo is called looping?
>>
>>The first few months I thought I was doing "delay-music" or "waving
>>carpets", until a Fripp fan told me this was called looping. Then I
>>remembered I had heard "watermusic" years before...
>>
>>>How about something cheap and simple? Rather than a single
>>>product endorsement, why not make some or all of your customers
>>>endorsers? How, you ask? They way most every manufacturer does
>>>it: Stickers.
>>>
>>>Every EDP should come with a nice bumper sticker that could say,
>>>"Loops via Echoplex by Gibson" We put these stickers on our
>>>racks, or they could anywhere visible. Every time we play a gig,
>>>regardless of people trying to see what's in your rack, they'd
>>>know. Doesn't much matter if they care, it will be in their
>>>subconcious. Then, when they pop in the latest Bowie album and get
>>>hit with that obvious loop, they might make the connection, if
>>>they care like musicians do.
>>>
>>>Anyway, couldn't hurt and it wouldn't really cost much to implement.
>>>
>>>Mark Sottilaro
>>>
>>>On Saturday, August 24, 2002, at 04:35 AM, Matthias Grob wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>matthias, you said something about product endorsements being
>old-school &
>>>>>boring, or something much like that.....
>>
>>
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