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Things are going swimmingly at the Looperlative booth. We're headed into the shark fest they call Saturday at NAMM. Bill Walker, Steve Lawson and I all had good demo sessions for the Looperlative yesterday with a lot of walk up traffic. My own first demo started roughly because seeing an FCB that Bill was bringing down to Matthias Grob (so damn wonderful to see Matthi again) I thought mine was in the car and forgot it standing up in the living room. I borrowed Bob Amstadt's Gordius, which is a cool little piece of gear but whose ergonomics I don't have down yet so I had a lot of technical difficulties in my first demo just due to unfamiliarity with gear. I got used to it fairly quickly with my little cheat sheets, though. Everything really came together, though, when I came by and heard Bill doing a really amazing piece of music. I got out my frame drums and kanjira and he and I jammed on a couple of pieces. We may hook up the Looperlatives today possibly. I went up to a guy at the string booth across the way to apologize for all the sonic mayhem that is my own demo and was suprised to hear him say, "No man, you guys have been the soundtrack for our show. You guys are on the cutting edge." It made my day to hear this guy who had to sit across from us and hear every demo all day long say this. ******** I haven't had too much chance to get out and see the show but I have heard 1) Electrix has a booth listed in the NAMM book but it is sitting empty there 2) There isn't even a demo model of the RC50 at Roland (that's kind of unnerving) 3) Kim Flint was spotted at the Looperlative booth but I haven't seen our fearless leader yet 4) There didn't appear to be any porn starlets at the Dean Heavy Metal Guitar booth as in past years 5) There is more all black attire than I've ever seen..........more grey hair than I've ever seen at a NAMM show. My bright yellow hair and 'gay lumberjacks on acid' yellow flannel shirt stood out like a neon bulb yesterday.........lol. 5) our looping pal Larry the O is looking good and ensconced at the BIAS booth 6) Bill Putnam , owner of the very successful Universal Audio (and generous patron to the Y2K festivals), has become an avid looper and put in his order for a Looperlative. that made me particularly happy as I've come to love how completely devoted to the cause of Music, Bill is. He invited us all up to the UA cocktail party and I got to have a fascinating conversation with the last producer who worked with Ray Charles. this is a great and fun and overwhelming show. Off to get breaky with Bill and do it again. cheers and loop on everyone. Rick