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you guys are driving me insane. The Korn reference was not about Korn becoming loopers. It was a comparison example about 7-string guitars. Korn sells 7-string guitars a lot better than Steve Vai or George Van Eps, because Korn is way more popular. At 12:11 AM 8/25/2002, Mark Sottilaro wrote: >But which demographic would have the cash to blow on an EDP? My guess is >that most of the younger crowd who listen to Korn aren't going to have a >lot of extra cash to spend, (I didn't when I was 18, where as most of the >people who were/are into Vai and Santana probably have given up on the >pipe dream that is being a rock star and have jobs that would give them >the extra dough to get an EDP (IE: ME) Well, somebody pays for all the Korn albums and t-shirts and concert tickets and 7-string guitars. Most likely it's mom and dad. The Korn demographic is bored middle and upper-middle class teenagers. Maybe it wasn't true for you, but where I came from parents spent giant amounts of money on their kid's hobbies and interests, some of which included music and therefore music gear. That's why 12-25 year olds are one of the two major demographics for musical instrument makers. Besides, if kids aren't interested in looping today, they won't be later when they have their mid-life crisis. That's the other major demographic. Older professionals who have plenty of cash, but suddenly feel they want to reinvigorate their lives and relive their youth. Today that means re-living times spent in garage bands playing baby-boomer rock, but now with $5000 Les Pauls. no musical instrument maker targets poor musicians as customers. They never buy anything. kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com