drTStingray
Well-known member
Nice philosophy and I really trust it will work.
In the meantime I'm planning to buy again (when you launch the Classic Rays)
Funny thing about these recessions is they do come and go - last big one I remember in UK was late 80s early 90s - by mid 90s I've heard that dealers were selling record numbers of StingRays here - at least that's what one or two have said to me - and I hope things improve soon BP.
I don't think that all kids are doing Guitar Hero and Rock Band instead of music - they might be doing it as well, but there are lots of kids into playing music - I think their daddies are less inclined to buy them guitars whilst the economy is under pressure - they're even less inclined to upgrade them to a decent instrument at say, 21 in the current climate - hopefully the economic climate will change soon and that will ease things up. Microsoft can be accused of lots of things, but did the advent of computer based golf kill the game - it doesn't appear to have from where I am.
On the attention span thing, this is something that has infuriated the hell out of me with my kids (who are now 25 and 20) and their friends while they have been growing up - when I was a kid if you wanted to keep replaying a guitar solo you had to get up and move the stylus back, and probably scratch the record while doing it - so you didn't do it all that much...........I went through several years when my kids specialised in listening to little bits of tracks on CDs - basically because at the touch of a button without moving from their chair, they could just listen to the bits they liked - they don't do it so much any more probably because they see the benefit of listening to the whole thing. But technology does encourage people to do things in different ways and kids have got an ever increasing array of goodies at their disposal. But a lot of kids here still want to be Kasabian or Maroon 5 or Arctic Monkeys etc etc etc - and a lot are doing live music still. There are quite a lot of late teens early twenties players/singers turning up at jam sessions for instance and also playing in live bands.
