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I agree Kim korn did far more for seven strings than vai as for PRS I think the creed guy has been there best thing in the last few years [apart from there reputation] I firmly believe that the mass market is 'ignorant' or uneducated in what is available and what is possible ... ok, so most [possible all] people on this list are exempt from the above statement, but most people here are 'experimental' musicians with an interest in gear a lot of people rant, I have found myself at gigs explaining compression, modulation, looping etc etc etc a lot of people just don't know what these things are !!!! so I still think and endorser would help generate exposure and interest ----- Original Message ----- From: "Kim Flint" <kflint@loopers-delight.com> To: <Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com> Sent: Friday, August 23, 2002 11:08 PM Subject: Re: loop device endorsement - was Santanas looping bassist > i hate it when people want to argue the details of an example instead of > the concept being illustrated, but anyway... > > At 12:32 PM 8/23/2002, Luigi Meloni wrote: > >Great analisys, Kim... > >Only a thing... Many seven string guitar players learned 'bout the existence > >of seven stringers because of the ads featuring Steve Vai in the mid to late > >eighties... > > probably including the guys in Korn. > > >And Steve Vai is still reputed more influential than the various > >Korn and clones... > > you're fooling yourself. Steve Vai stopped being relevant or influential 15 > years ago, and even then he was only interesting to guitar nerds. Sure, >he > has a core group of fans who care about what he does, but nobody new is > entering the picture. Hardly anybody under the age of 30 would even know > who he is, and he's not inspiring people to go learn to play guitar > anymore. He might have been the one who got a few people interested in > playing seven string guitar a long time ago, but right now, Korn is huge > and they do inspire people to go buy and learn to play seven string >guitar > today. A lot more people than Steve Vai ever reached. That was my point. > > >Just think about P.R.S. guitars... > >In all the eighties and the nineties I've never seen as much photos > >featuring those guitars around... God... the Santana SE ads have some > >Nu-metal jerk on them, not Santana. > > well duh. Santana is great, but he's old news. Everybody who was going to > be influenced by Santana already got influenced 25 years ago. The "nu metal > jerk" probably reaches far more people today than Santana has in years. > > kim > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > Kim Flint | Looper's Delight > kflint@loopers-delight.com | http://www.loopers-delight.com > >