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Jeff- Thanks for the chuckle! We've got walls and walls of pointy guitars with extended cutaways and Floyd Rose whammies here in Nashville. We also have a bunch of vintage Oberheim, Ensoniq, Roland, etc. Probably due to the fact that this town is full of guys and gals who get free gear, and once they lose/change their gigs, the gear gets sold in used and pawn shops. Great shopping if you ever come by for a visit. Send me a wish list, I'll keep an eye out for whatever. BTW- If Mark's Vintage Synthesizers got you hot, stay far away from his "The Beauty of the B" The Hammond B-3 Story. Probably not the thing for the pedal-philes on this list, but if there is a latent organist in the crowd, enjoy!! Tom "Fattenin' up the Gear Fund" Spaulding At 12:48 PM 1/27/98 -0600, you wrote: >Hey kids, >If you're like me, you have a big swarm of strange cables >running from your pedalboard to your rack. I don't mean >the usual pedalboard action where the signal goes in one >end and out the other, but the kind where you have >footswitches and controllers for a bunch of rack gizmos. >For example, I have three footswitches and a pedal for my >Jamster & Vortex (side note-how long do you think it'll be >before these suckers go up so much in price that I'll be >afraid to take 'em to the gig, like a flametop Les Paul?) >and a footswitch for a ProCo R2DU (two Rats in a 1 rack >space box), in other words, four 1/4" stereo cables and 1 >MIDI cable. I carry my crap around in a soft rack case, >tossing the pedals and cables in the back, since all the >devices are quite shallow. Needless to say, I had a >considerable spaghetti problem. >So, I decided to build my own snake. After a variety of >tape/twist-tie configurations failed, I got $.50 of fabric >at Ben Franklin and spent an afternoon sewing and >listening to Paul Bley albums. I made a tube 7.5'x 1.5" >and threaded my cables through it. Presto-quick and tidy >setup and teardown. >I suppose this little invention won't catch on because >it's getting easier and easier to get one big controller >that can run all your stuff or one gadget that does >everything and then some (G-Force? Eventide? Powerbook >with MAX?), but I figured I'd share my Martha Stewart >moment with y'all. >Oh yeah, under no circumstances read Mark Vail's Vintage >Synthesizers book. It's worse than pornography. I was >filled with an unstoppable violent lust for gear. >Fortunately for my finances, the only used gear store in >town is full of Samick guitars and Peavey amps cast off by >frustrated post-grunge teenage boys... >-- >Jeff Schwartz >jeffs@bgnet.bgsu.edu >http://www.bgsu.edu/~jeffs/main.html > > >