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*laughing* sex sells! lol! -when I was in an erotic funk/rock band, we certainly had no shortage of audiences! lol! my sheer costumes, body glitter, sexed up grooves, and a fake orgasm contest at the end! lollollol! It was a blast! guys would come up to me afterward to uh, -talk... lol! -I wasn't doing looping in that context, but if I were, it'd certainly be no problem to turn them on- lol! -sorry,- to it... lol! Smiles, CQ At 11:15 AM 8/25/02 -0700, you wrote: >Is this where it comes to? Do we need a looper spokes model!? > > >On Sunday, August 25, 2002, at 08:58 AM, Travis Hartnett wrote: > >> On a related note, I was paging through the new issue of Guitar Player >> today, and came across a Dean ad. It was typical Dean, a busty woman >> in a >> sheer blouse, cradling the guitar between her breasts, mouth half open >> as if >> she's thinking "Gosh...something sure would taste good right now..." >> and so >> on. This has been the Dean advertising model for some time, but I >> remember >> reading an interview with the company owner, Dean Zalinsky, where he >> said >> for the first few years, his ads were like everyone else's--famous >> guitarists with their bitchen' Deans (and these were guys who really >> did use >> the guitars). And sales were so-so. >> >> Then he took a cue from the rest of the business world and started using >> sexy woman in his ads, and things took off. "I sold more guitars with a >> girl in a bikini than I ever did with a rock star" is how I remember him >> putting it. >> >>> That's the whole point here. Big figures in pop culture are what moves >>> things. If we are interested in what will make looping more than an odd >>> niche, that's what it takes. A big shift in popular music culture that >>> somehow includes looping. Fringe artists and a few guys from decades >>> ago >>> don't do it. >> >> On the other hand, there's a John Scofield article in the same issue >> that >> shows his pedalboard which features a Boomerang and a Loop Station, and >> he >> discusses how groovy the Boomerang is. About 18 months ago it seemed >> that >> every issue of Guitar Player had at least one article with some >> guitarist >> going on about looping in their playing, it just doesn't get headlines. >> >> >> TH >> > > --- "The only things I really think are important, are love, and eachother. -Then, anything is possible..." http://home.earthlink.net/~thefates Please visit The Guitar Cafe. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/the-guitar-cafe