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>>and horn players, and Leni Stern is one of only a handful of female >guitarists >>to receive any recognition--and if you look at the Guitar Player 30th >>anniversary issue, there she is among the >>"30 players who mattered" offering a looping lesson. > >Yes, but bearing in mind that the average joe does tend to act like a >sheep >rather than learn by example, you need to get people who are in said >musician's CD collections, and Leni Stern quite honestly isn't. I'm >probably at a disadvantage here because I'm in the UK and probably aren't >exposed to people like Manring, of whom I'd never heard before the ad. >But >in terms of artist association Peavey's new J. ad for the Tubefex will >probably do far more for sales. Hell, that ad could've been for the >Vortex. Yes, if you are trying to sell huge numbers, you aren't going to get it with "musician's musician" type endorsers. You can have David Torn, Robert Fripp, Leni Stern, Michael Manring and a host of other brilliant artists and it won't equal one Smashing Pumpkins. Joe Perry and Slash have never made any remarkably creative or innovative artistic statements, but they sure sold a hell of a lot of Les Pauls..... >No word yet on the discontinuation on the $1000 plex.... ;) How's this: The Oberheim Echoplex is not discontinued. Production has been restarted after a few months of limbo, so they should be readily available soon. There was even something about software that I didn't quite catch..... (and it's more like $800 list, not $1000....) kim ______________________________________________________________________ Kim Flint | Looper's Delight kflint@annihilist.com | http://www.annihilist.com/loop/loop.html http://www.annihilist.com/ | Loopers-Delight-request@annihilist.com